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"Weird Beard" Charlie Peterson |
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| "Weird Beard" Charlie Peterson
was born William D Peterson in Baltimore and raised in South Dakota. From
his first radio job in Sidney Nebraska at KSID in 1959 to a sales job at
KQV in the mid 1980's, Weird Beard had quite a broadcasting career. Charlie
Peterson did it all. From deejay to news to production to sales to program
director. Some of Charlie's stops included Cheyenne Wyoming where he did
tv as "Captain 5", Garden City S.D., Salt Lake City, and Ogden Utah where
he had his first programming opportunity. Charlie programmed at WSGN in
Birmingham and in Tampa before coming to Pittsburgh to KQV. After KQV,
Charlie went to Houston to ABC's KXYZ and then back to Pittsburgh as program
director at KDKA from spring 1970 - 1972 and WWSW from 1972 - 1976.
He worked in Cleveland as pd for a short time at WJW.
Charlie joined KQV in January 1966 from WINQ in Tampa where he was operations manager. It was at KQV where Charlie was production director during the week, but became Weird Beard on weekends. Weird Beard was fun to listen to because he had fun on the air on KQV. CharlIe Peterson remained at KQV until 1969 when he transfered to Houston to take over as program director at KXYZ. CharlIe passed away in April 2, 2012 at the age of 79. Click here for his obituary from the Post Gazette. 
Joe Bacarella - WXYZ - Detroit Mike McCormick - KQV - Pittsburgh Hal Neal Jr., President - ABC Owned Radio Stations Rick Sklar - WABC - New York John Rook - WLS - Chicago Paul Carroll - KGO - San Francisco Bob Heneberry - Corporate ABC Radio Staff CharlIe Peterson - KXYZ - Houston Jack Myers - KABC - Los Angeles After many successful years in radio, CharlIe called it quits and took up a new career in advertising and photography. He had his own advertising agency for a while and took up photography taking pictures for billboards and buses among others.
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| Weird Beard Aircheck |
| CharlIe "Weird Beard" Peterson August 1966 (3:26 scoped) reel audio |
| KQV
Weird Beard Macleans Demo - 1966 mp3
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| KQV
Weird Beard Aircheck August 20, 1966 mp3
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| KQV
Weird Beard Aircheck May 20, 1967 mp3
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| Big
Pete Fighting - Ogden Utah mp3
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