R.I.P.: Charlie Salisbury Jr., Founder of Salisbury Broadcasting

(1940-2023)

Charles H. “Charlie” Salisbury Jr., a former executive at T. Rowe Price and president of Salisbury Broadcasting Corporation, died of progressive supranuclear palsy Oct. 30 at his Towson home. He was 83, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Born in Ithaca, New York, his parents soon moved to Maryland, Mr. Salisbury went on to graduate from the Friends School of Baltimore in 1959. He obtained a degree in American history from what is today Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1963, according to a family-submitted biographical profile. After college, Mr. Salisbury joined the Air Force, from which he retired as a captain in 1968. During his time in the military, he was stationed in Taipei, Taiwan, during the Vietnam War, his wife, Edith Salisbury, said.

“Charlie was most certainly a good man in every sense of the word; a good person, good husband, father, friend, brother-in-law,” Ted Gans, a friend, said in a submitted obituary. “I knew him best for the love of his family.”

After leaving the military, Mr. Salisbury received a master’s degree in business administration from what is today Loyola University Maryland in 1973.

He began working at T. Rowe Price Associates in 1970 in various positions, including as a member of several boards.

Elaine Kllinger, Mr. Salisbury’s executive assistant for 38 years, said he was a mentor and father figure to her.

“Charlie had an exceptional gift for energizing and engaging others,” she said in his obituary. “Even more impressive than his own philanthropy was his ability to inspire others to action, especially for projects and causes that not everyone immediately saw the value of.”