Bill Freston, Longtime Columbia Records Executive, Dies at 76
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variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music R. William (“Bill”) Freston, a longtime executive at Columbia Records and a founder of the early digital radio service Click Radio, died in New York on Feb.
20 after suffering injuries in a fall on the Caribbean island of Bequia. He passed away peacefully while surrounded by his family according to the announcement.
Freston, brother of Tom, a co-founder of MTV, was born on May 9, 1948, in New Rochelle, New York and raised in Rowayton, Connecticut.
His first industry job was at the free-form Boston radio station WNTN, where he rose to general manager in 1972. He moved to New York City in 1973 to begin work at Columbia Records during a boom time for the label.
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