Longtime WBCN DJ Mark Parenteau has died
Mark Parenteau, a longtime fixture in Boston rock radio, has died.
Parenteau, who was born in Worcester, died of complications from surgery June 3 at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to The Boston Globe. He was 66.
His radio career spanned four decades, but he was best known as one of the core DJs at legendary Boston rock station WBCN, where he worked for two decades.
Parenteau left BCN in 1997 and went on to work in radio in New York City and later in Washington, D.C. It was while he was living in D.C. that he was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree sexual abuse for an incident that involved a 14-year-old boy, the Washington Post reported.
Read the full Boston Globe obituary here.
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