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NERW on WMEX's return date and programming

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

https://t.co/Ngag8pCo53?amp=1

Fybush's NorthEastRadioWatch has details on the March 9 return of WMEX 1510 Quincy
(Spring ahead...) with details of oldies programming hours and personalities.It's at the start of the column so all can see.
WMEX March-es on.You've waited all this time, you can wait almost two more months.
 
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Good stuff.

Where is the transmitter in Quincy ?

Oldies means what decade/decades ?
Garbage from the 70's or good tunes from the 50s/60s ?
 
raccoonradio said:
https://radio-locator.com/info/WMEX-AM
Has a link to map showing location.

My guess is 50s-60s and some 70s thrown in.The article mentions Jay, Dwyer, Justice as among the DJs
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Justice jocked into the '70s, didn't he? I'd think '60s and '70s would be more likely, with '50s restricted to weekend specialty shows. Of course, if ownership were interested in attracting agency ad business, they'd go the '80s/'90s route, but nobody calls that "oldies" anymore. So I expect that Boomer music (other than classic rock) will return to Boston's airwaves on March 9, barring further setbacks.
 
CTListener said:
Justice jocked into the '70s, didn't he? I'd think '60s and '70s would be more likely, with '50s restricted to weekend specialty shows. Of course, if ownership were interested in attracting agency ad business, they'd go the '80s/'90s route, but nobody calls that "oldies" anymore. So I expect that Boomer music (other than classic rock) will return to Boston's airwaves on March 9, barring further setbacks.
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and a certain someone is probably thrilled hell be able to broadcast from his beloved Marshfield fair this summer

I expect 1460 and 1510 to get a small cult following and maybe have a few advertisers.. but the guys that will be on the air are stuck in the 70s and think its gonna take the world by storm.
 
Not WMEX yet, but the other dead station that Ed Perry resurrected that was recently simulcasting WATD, WBMS 1460 AM/101.1 FM Brockton, is now on the air this afternoon with its own separate Oldies format!

I can hear 1460 on the radio (faintly) on day power up here in Somerville, and the stream can be accessed by scrolling down the right column of the WATD website http://www.959watd.com.

I began listening at 3:45 PM. Music is mostly centered from the mid '50s through the mid '60s with some later '60s and early '70s, and I heard a couple of later tracks by artists who started in the '60s (a mid '80s hit by Steve WInwood and a recent sounding track by Van Morrison), a good way to play some more recent music while keeping the Oldies audience. I'm also hearing some lesser-known songs by well-known artists sprinkled in, not just their "greatest hits". DJ on now is Lindsay(sp?) Parker. Sounds good!

This original programming ends at 6 PM, then back to the WATD simulcast for the night.
 
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Eli Polonsky said:
Not WMEX yet, but the other dead station that Ed Perry resurrected that was recently simulcasting WATD, WBMS 1460 AM/101.1 FM Brockton, is now on the air this afternoon with its own separate Oldies format!

I can hear 1460 on the radio (faintly) on day power up here in Somerville, and the stream can be accessed by scrolling down the right column of the WATD website http://www.959watd.com.

I began listening at 3:45 PM. Music is mostly centered from the mid '50s through the mid '60s with some later '60s and early '70s, and I heard a couple of later tracks by artists who started in the '60s (a mid '80s hit by Steve WInwood and a recent sounding track by Van Morrison), a good way to play some more recent music while keeping the Oldies audience. I'm also hearing some lesser-known songs by well-known artists sprinkled in, not just their "greatest hits". DJ on now is Lindsay(sp?) Parker. Sounds good!

This original programming ends at 6 PM, then back to the WATD simulcast for the night.
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There are two guys, both on the Cape, who would be *awesome* for the grand reopening of WMEX. Ed Perry, heads up! How about inviting John H. Garabedian and Ron Robin to the festivities???
 
the only people listening to WBMS and WMEX will be people on this board, the people who work there, their friends/family and a small contingent of listeners. But ask Mr Marshfield Fair, JM will say theyre going to set the world on fire.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
the only people listening to WBMS and WMEX will be people on this board, the people who work there, their friends/family and a small contingent of listeners. But ask Mr Marshfield Fair, JM will say theyre going to set the world on fire.
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Yep, of, by and for radio geeks and musicologists. Must be nice to have money to burn.
 
DonMatsen said:
There are two guys, both on the Cape, who would be *awesome* for the grand reopening of WMEX. Ed Perry, heads up! How about inviting John H. Garabedian and Ron Robin to the festivities???
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He probably has. He told me that everybody who has been on any incarnation of WMEX will be invited.
 
From Dennis DeNapoli, Remembering WMEX facebook group:
"local programming on WBMS 1460* Brockton starts Feb 10; on WMEX 1510 Quincy, Mar 9"

*--maybe 101.1 FM trans toi?
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
the only people listening to WBMS and WMEX will be people on this board, the people who work there, their friends/family and a small contingent of listeners. But ask Mr Marshfield Fair, JM will say theyre going to set the world on fire.
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Soooo, not just one station ... but two? C'mon! "Friends/family" better have a lot of money to throw in to keep the lights on. Ahhhh, funeral home advertising over the next few years ... got it! What a way to remember the old WMEX. The late Bud Ballou is up on that cloud saying WTF?
 
CTListener said:
Sounds like today's classic hits rather than the golden oldies some were hoping for.
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So far, it sounds like it's depending more on the DJ. I'm hearing more older "oldies" (mostly '60s, some late '50s, some early '70s) on Joe McMillan's show 10 am - 2 pm and more later '70s/'80s adult classic hits on Lindsy Parker's show 2 pm - 6 pm, but listening a bit today, a couple of songs after "Sir Duke" and "Heart of Glass" from the late '70s, Parker played Bill Haley's version of "Shake, Rattle & Roll" from 1954.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
So far, it sounds like it's depending more on the DJ. I'm hearing more older "oldies" (mostly '60s, some late '50s, some early '70s) on Joe McMillan's show 10 am - 2 pm and more later '70s/'80s adult classic hits on Lindsy Parker's show 2 pm - 6 pm, but listening a bit today, a couple of songs after "Sir Duke" and "Heart of Glass" from the late '70s, Parker played Bill Haley's version of "Shake, Rattle & Roll" from 1954.
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I'll have to give it a listen online (It is online, right?) when I'm free later tonight. Do they go autopilot oldies overnight, repeat earlier shows, or what? The idea of DJs picking their own music here 20 years into the 21st century is going to be a really loud dog whistle for the usual cast of big-time radio pros on this board.
 
Little bit of everything, and they need to well known stuff to please most listeners. You're not gonna get every single obscure or cult tune but some may creep in, and maybe some
weekend shows could specialize in that.
WBMS is on TuneIn (right now at 7:43 pm it's a talk show--maybe a comic, Jimmy Tingle?)

If TuneIn has a listing for WMEX (formal debut March 9) it's for the old "Renegade Radio" guys who still have the 1510wmex web URL. For now.
"© Copyright 2017 by Renegade Radio" Ironically enough the contact info gives an address in WMEX's current COL, Quincy.
 
CTListener said:
The idea of DJs picking their own music here 20 years into the 21st century is going to be a really loud dog whistle for the usual cast of big-time radio pros on this board.
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It depends on what their goals are. Most of the college stations still pick their own music.
 
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