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Rick Buckley

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From Joel Denver & All Access.com. Rick Buckley -former owner of WSEN/WFBL has passed away.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/94467/wor-president-rick-buckley-has-passed-on

I worked for him several years and only have good memories of the station and staff. He was old school. He actually cared about his stations and the people who worked for him. I wish there were more people like him in radio. It would be a much better business for everybody. Unlike the corporate ownerships that are the rule, not the exceptions, now days, I actually admired him.
 
Saddened to read about his passing, and certainly his family has all our best wishes and condolences. Never had the pleasure of meeting him or working with him, although my sense of him from second-hand knowledge is that he was one of the old school of hands-on, involved broadcasters who had strong ideas about what made a radio station serve and connect with its community.

You may have disagreed with some of the traditional kinds of talk that stations like WOR, WDRC or WFBL offered, and thought it all needed a makeover/modernization. But seeing how commercial talk radio has drifted into rant radio, maybe he was more right in resisting going too far in that direction with his stations than many people realized at the time.

The sale of the Syracuse stations was part of a gradual downsizing of his company that also included sale of some stations in the western states, taking advantage of the lifting of the estate tax under Bush tax changes. Those tax laws are slated to go away at the end of 2012, taking us back to Clinton-era tax law, and in today's fiscally strapped environment, the Bush breaks apparently won't be extended whatever else Congress does about taxes and spending. So the Buckley family has a big decision to make...cash out completely, including their lucrative New York and Hartford properties, and finish the divestment started with the sale of WFBL and WSEN, while the tax laws are favorable? Or hold on for the generations to come?
 
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