[BC] Al Leighton, radio station owner, dies

[Alex Hartman]

I worked for Al for about 4 years. Nice enough guy. Got to the top by
stepping on a few people though. Today it's the largest private
cluster in central MN.

Always thinking of the bottom line. He did, on a few occasions, cancel
the ESOP retirement program, fire someone so he didn't have to pay
them, and re-instate the ESOP after the fact... sue his best friend of
20 years, and 20 years later buys him out under a dummy corporation
and escorts him out of the building.

But, he always told a funny joke from time to time.

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Alex Hartman

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Blaine Thompson <irw at well.com> wrote:
> http://www.sctimes.com/article/20120628/NEWS01/306280038/Al-Leighton-radio-station-owner-dies
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> Al Leighton, radio station owner, dies
> 11:30 AM, Jun 28, 2012   |
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> Al Leighton, owner of Leighton Broadcasting and member of the Minnesota Museum of Broadcast Hall of Fame, died this morning, according to Dan Ochsner, a long-time Leighton employee.
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> Leighton was 86. He was a longtime broadcaster and owner of radio stations in Minnesota and North Dakota. Leighton Broadcasting owns four stations in St. Cloud: KCLD-FM, KNSI-AM, KZPK-FM and KCML-FM. He also owns four stations in Detroit Lakes and Grand Forks, N.D.
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> Leighton was among the first inductees to the Minnesota Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2001. He started in broadcasting in 1951 in Brainerd and is a past president of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association, according to the Broadcast Hall of Fame.
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