VT Radio: Tom Beardsley To Retire From Radio Vermont Group

Tom Beardsley

Tom Beardsley of the Radio Vermont Group in Waterbury has announced he will retire soon as vice president of advertising sales.

He began his radio career in Vermont in 1973 and for the next 13 years served a reporter, copywriter, program director and sales manager. Then, for a decade, the voice familiar to many listeners in the Waterbury area pursued other interests — public relations manager for the New England Dairy Association, Vermont office manager for the state’s only congressman, then overseer of two radio stations in Maine.

Then he returned to Radio Vermont Group, where he supervises the sales and marketing for WDEV 96.1  FM / 550 AM, WLVB 93.9 FM and WEXP 101.5 FM.

“I’ve been involved going back all the way to the early 1970s and I’ve had some other jobs, but 30 out of the past 40 years have been spent right here and it’s been a pleasure,” Beardsley said.