[IRCA] WMEX-1510 is on
--- Begin Message --- << WMEX-1510 noted with pop mx //WATD-95.9 at 1640 EDT. Decent signal at north facing Corporation Beach in Dennis. A bit weaker here at home. Signal sounds about right for 1kw from the 1260 towers near the SE X-Way in Milton. Marc D South Dennis __._,_.___ Posted by: Marc DeLorenzo >> 1510 WMEX signal strength here indicates sub-1kW power. 1300 WJDA, 1 kW, nearby site, is about 10 dB better. 1360 WLYN, 1 kW, farther (but via lower loss path), must be at least 20 dB stronger. Ditto 1230 WESX, co-located with WLYN. Paralleling with 95.9 WATD was not a milk run either. The classical station in RI (WCRI) was kicking the stuffing out of WATD about two-thirds of the time. In no respect can 95.9 WATD be considered a station adequately covering the Cape & Islands market. Mark Connelly, WA1ION - South Yarmouth, MA Text below consists of recent Boston Radio Interest posts about the WMEX operation. << Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 22, Issue 59 Tue, Jul 3, 2018 10:27 am boston-radio-interest-request (boston-radio-interest-requ...@lists.bostonradio.org)To:boston-radio-interest Details Send Boston-Radio-Interest mailing list submissions to boston-radio-inter...@lists.bostonradio.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.BostonRadio.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-radio-interest or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to boston-radio-interest-requ...@lists.bostonradio.org You can reach the person managing the list at boston-radio-interest-ow...@lists.bostonradio.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Boston-Radio-Interest digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: WMEX lives (Rob Landry) 2. Re: WMEX lives (Eli Polonsky) 3. Re: WMEX lives (Scott Fybush) 4. RE: WMEX lives (Jim Hall) 5. RE: WMEX lives (Garrett Wollman) 6. Re: WMEX lives (A Joseph Ross) 7. Re: WMEX lives (A Joseph Ross) 8. Re: WMEX lives (Bob Nelson) 9. RE: WMEX lives (Dale H. Cook) Attached Message >From Rob Landry <011010...@interpring.com> To Bob Nelson Cc Boston Radio Group Subject Re: WMEX lives Date Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:23:42 -0400 (EDT) That's strange. The FCC database dosn't show a CP, but only an application, for the new WMEX site. How are they able to get on the air? Rob On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Bob Nelson wrote: > Word from Eli Polonsky that WMEX 1510 made it back on air today, with low > power testing simulcasting WATD.This just beat the FCC deadline to get on > or lose the license. > > Oldies DJ Jimmy Jay says they'll resume regular broadcasting around Sept 18 > and he will have a late morning show. > Attached Message >From Eli Polonsky To boston-radio-inter...@lists.bostonradio.org; j...@attorneyross.com Subject Re: WMEX lives Date Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:30:48 -0400 > > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:12:59 -0400 > From: A Joseph Ross > To: boston-radio-inter...@lists.bostonradio.org > Subject: Re: WMEX lives > > Are they still on?? I was in Waltham today, where I would have expected > a good signal, and got what sounded like a distant station, which didn't > sound like WATD either. > WMEX 1510 came on with the WATD simulcast Saturday morning through the day Sunday. Sometime Sunday evening it sounded like it lost the audio feed from WATD and there was a blank carrier (with some spurious noise) on 1510 through Sunday night. I didn't check earlier today (Monday) but now as of 3 PM WMEX is simulcasting WATD again. I would not expect a good, or necessarily even audible, signal in Waltham from the current WMEX transmitter site. It is no longer transmitting from the Waltham site that 1510 moved to in the early 1980's. WATD owner Ed Perry did not include that site (or use of it) in his purchase of WMEX, and those towers were taken down about a month ago. Ed has WMEX transmitting from the 1260 WBIX site at the Milton/North Quincy line (very near where the original 1510 WMEX transmitter was before its move to Waltham) on a temporary low power transmitter just to get the station on the air before the FCC would have deleted the license after June 30. The signal is very weak to non-existent due west and northwest of Boston. I don't know the current power but it may be just a hundred watts or so. A 10,000 watt daytime signal is planned from that site by this fall but still down to 100 watts at night (all non-directional). It is very weak where I live in Somerville. In my travels over the weekend it was very weak in Cambridge, Allston/Brighton and Brookline, and I couldn't hear much of it farther west or northwest that that, though it did put a fair signal southwest, I heard it in Dedham, Westwood, Norwood. It's spotty in downtown Boston proper, listenable in places. Of course, it's strong in the southerly Boston neighborhoods including Dorchester, South Boston, Mattapan, Hyde Park, W. Roxbury, etc... and the closer you are to the water, the better
[IRCA] WMEX 1510
WMEX is now WWZN 1510 with sports programming, I vaguely remember it from it's heyday, many old consoles you see around here have one of their buttons with a WMEX sticker in it. I think I have an old console at my parents' house with one. all you ever wanted to know about WMEX http://www.answers.com/topic/wwzn-1 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] WMEX 1510
Wow, that is a very complete history of WMEX - thanks Bob! On a personal note - while at Emerson College in Boston (1969-1970), one of my buddies, Geoff Fox, had an internship at WMEX. On several occasions I went over to the studio with him and actually met some of their legends - like Dick Summer and Steve Fredericks. Geoff himself has had a long successful career in broadcasting - most notably as a weatherman at TV Channel 8 in New Haven, CT. Marc DeLorenzo South Dennis, MA -- Original message -- From: Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] all you ever wanted to know about WMEX http://www.answers.com/topic/wwzn-1 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510
In the late 60s this was favorite station in the Boston (until I started listening to WVBF and WBCN on FM). I remember John H and Bud Ballou (who later DJ'd at my cousin's wedding). Great station then with a playlist that wasn't as restrictive as WRKO's. Keith McGinnis Hingham MA -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc DeLorenzo) Wow, that is a very complete history of WMEX - thanks Bob! On a personal note - while at Emerson College in Boston (1969-1970), one of my buddies, Geoff Fox, had an internship at WMEX. On several occasions I went over to the studio with him and actually met some of their legends - like Dick Summer and Steve Fredericks. Geoff himself has had a long successful career in broadcasting - most notably as a weatherman at TV Channel 8 in New Haven, CT. Marc DeLorenzo South Dennis, MA -- Original message -- From: Bob Young all you ever wanted to know about WMEX http://www.answers.com/topic/wwzn-1 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510
Is it true that during the sixties at WMEX the DJ names stayed the same whenever the person changed? Heard there were three or four Fenways. There could be only one Arnie Ginsburg though. Tom ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510
If memory serves (and often lately it hasn't) WMEX was, next to WBZ, the most often reported station from New England by dxers west of the Mississppi in those days of relatively clear frequencies. I heard them from Iowa and Texas as well. My best from that state while dxing from NW Iowa in the early fifties was WHAV Haverhill on 1490 during an NRC DX program. Topped the frequency. Correction, it was from Omaha NE in 1952 I heard that one. Don K. S.F. CA Bob Young wrote: WMEX is now WWZN 1510 with sports programming, I vaguely remember it from it's heyday, many old consoles you see around here have one of their buttons with a WMEX sticker in it. I think I have an old console at my parents' house with one. all you ever wanted to know about WMEX http://www.answers.com/topic/wwzn-1 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510
Is it true that during the sixties at WMEX the DJ names stayed the same whenever the person changed? Heard there were three or four Fenways. /// I've known of several stations that did this back in the day. Some bought jingle packages centered around the air name and didn't want to waste those expensive jingles. So the name stayed at the station even when the personnel changed. There were also certain names that seemed to be on the air at almost every small market station. Jay Robins is one that comes to mind. Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO SBE Certified Broadcast Technologist NRC Broadcasting - Denver http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510
Yes that's true and one of the Fenways was Jack Gale who recently bought a dark station in Alabama and I think it's on the air right now doing oldies at 700 on the dial. Larry - Original Message - From: Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] WMEX 1510 Is it true that during the sixties at WMEX the DJ names stayed the same whenever the person changed? Heard there were three or four Fenways. /// I've known of several stations that did this back in the day. Some bought jingle packages centered around the air name and didn't want to waste those expensive jingles. So the name stayed at the station even when the personnel changed. There were also certain names that seemed to be on the air at almost every small market station. Jay Robins is one that comes to mind. Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO SBE Certified Broadcast Technologist NRC Broadcasting - Denver http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.8/714 - Release Date: 3/8/2007 10:58 AM ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
