Location: 985 Park Avenue, Woonsocket, RI 02895
Phone: 401-762-1240
Cell: 401-309-6395
About Me
I started broadcasting on April 1, 1968 after building my first radio transmitter. It was a lotta laughs. 20 years later I would realize what I learned selling ads and training my friends to 'play radio' on my Part 15 "Toy".
Got my first job at a licensed station at age 16 in 1971. I worked up through the ranks and purchased that station, WOON, in 1990.
Been the morning radio host for 45 years. The longest serving radio announcer in the same time slot on the same station in Rhode Island radio history. Previous record was 33 years, set by a good friend of mine who was directly responsible for my journey into ownership.
Inducted into the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame in 2012.
Past President of the Woonsocket Kiwanis; 30-year member of the Woonsocket Lodge of Elks; 22 year member and past master of Friendship Lodge of Masons; Board of Directors (present Chairman) and 30-year member of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council; a Milk Fund volunteer for 46 years, serving on the Board for 39 years, present President. Woonsocket Mardi Gras volunteer for 22 years; and Woonsocket Autumnfest volunteer since its inaugural year (1979), serving on the Steering Committee for 11 years and as Grand Marshall in 2013.
A past United Veterans' Council “Veteran of the Year” and was also an appointed member of the Burrillville Planning Board for nine years.
Lives in Woonsocket with his wife of 50 years, “The Fabulous Denise”, and the father of one daughter, Nicole, of Redding, CA.
My Market
Woonsocket, Rhode Island is a micro-market under the umbrella of Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. Those three are rated markets, but Woonsocket, being a tiny part of each, is not itself rated.
We are 12 Miles north of Rhode Island's capital city of Providence. Yet, two-thirds of our signal is in Massachusetts.
Woonsocket is an old mill city which continues to struggle to re-invent itself after virtually all the mills left during the last years of the 20th Century. It has a very close-knit but aging French-Canadian community, a significant transient immigrant community, and a slowly increasing community of young professionals occupying our recovered mill housing stock.
My Stations
WOON 1240Khz, 1Kw, unlimited hours. First broadcast on Monday November 11, 1946 (77 years old in 2023). FM translator W258DU, 150 watts, at 99.5 added June 28, 2018.
Format is Local. Period. We don't even own a satellite dish anymore.
WOON went online in 1992, started streaming in 1998, developed a video division in '98 which continues to grow today.