Same with WBUR and several other college owned stations.
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NERW on WMEX's return date and programming
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Same with WBUR and several other college owned stations.
Yes, though WBUR and WUMB are the only two such professional college-based stations in Boston. It's strange, though, how many casual listeners seem to think of WUMB as a college station (though the hosts are all very experienced and completely professional in presentation), but don't think of WBUR as one. I don't know if it's because WUMB is music and WBUR is news/talk, or because WBUR has a much more powerful signal.
Thought most of WERS' hosts were students. How about WHRB? I know they have shows hosted by community folks -- like "Hillbilly at Harvard" -- but do Harvard undergrads get to go on-air there?
WERS has a full-time professional weekday morning host, George Knight, formerly of WBOS, WUMB and others. The rest of the hosts are students, but unlike other student college stations in the area, they are heavily faculty advised, formatted and playlisted.
Besides a few weekly specialty shows like “Hillbilly...”, most hosts/DJ’s at WHRB are undergrad students. I’ve heard there may be some faculty and/or alumni advisement of the students, and oversight of determining the contents of the program schedule, though not as hands-on as WERS.
Will have to see if that's it during the oldies hours.On TuneIn the logo has 1510 WMEX The Greatest Hits on it and right now it sounds like a talk show.Display says Dimensions 7 Radio Network.They should be simulcasting WATD.
WATD on Tune In may be a different talk show--display says My Generation.
Far as I know it isn't the stream for the previous owners (Renegade Radio).Let me check WATD site which has a link to WMEX.
OK. .WATD stream on site ".My Generation"
On WMEX link: a talk show though display
says "Ventures--Walk Don't Run 64".Maybe that
was playing earlier.
Anyway some talk show on that, talking about
healing etc...not sure which one.
WATD on Tune In may be a different talk show--display says My Generation.
Far as I know it isn't the stream for the previous owners (Renegade Radio).Let me check WATD site which has a link to WMEX.
OK. .WATD stream on site ".My Generation"
On WMEX link: a talk show though display
says "Ventures--Walk Don't Run 64".Maybe that
was playing earlier.
Anyway some talk show on that, talking about
healing etc...not sure which one.
Maybe the "third" WMEX -- the LP in New Hampshire -- is the WMEX TuneIn is carrying, not the new Ed Perry project or the domain-squatting Renegade operation. What is the process of getting your station (radio or internet) on TuneIn anyway? Would TuneIn arbitrarily refuse to carry two WMEXs, one an AM with a translator, the other an LP?
Both Ed Perry’s 1510 WMEX and Gary James’ oldies WMEX-LPFM in NH are now on TuneIn, on two separate TuneIn pages. Ed’s 1510 WMEX took over the TuneIn page that was being squatted on by the former 1510 WMEX “Renegade Radio”, though many of their former shows are still listed on it.
On weekends, 1510 WMEX simulcasts WATD after Jimmy Jay’s Sunday morning oldies show ends at either 12 noon or 1 PM. That includes Ron Dwyer’s long running weekend afternoon oldies shows that are simulcast from WATD, and WATD’s weekend evening and night programming.
On Saturdays WATD continues with oldies until midnight, but on Sundays Dwyer’s oldies ends at 5 PM, then there are various talk shows (at least some of them are brokered time) on WATD, simulcast on 1510 WMEX, through Sunday evening (until Bill Clark’s ‘50s doo-wop and early oldies show “Music Heaven” comes on WATD and 1510 WMEX at Sundays at 10pm). That’s what Raccoon heard above. “My Generation” is a Sunday evening talk show on WATD simulcast on 1510 WMEX.
However, there are also many show names from the squatting former 1510 WMEX programmers operation “Renegade Radio” (such as “Dimensions 7”) still listed on the 1510 WMEX TuneIn even though Ed Perry’s new 1510 WMEX has their logo, main description, and main audio feed on it. I don’t know how Perry can get those off of there.
The “last played” always lists the last oldie played on 1510 WMEX that was not simulcast from WATD, so The Ventures was the last song Jimmy Jay played before 1 PM. Songs simulcast from WATD (Ron Dwyer’s show, etc..) and simulcasts of other WATD programming (talk shows, etc...) do not show up on the 1510 WMEX “last played” list.
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Just checked TuneIn (app) again.Under WMEX with "The Greatest Hits" logo there's an oldies show and
the DJ just said "WATD". They are indeed simulcasting WATD now on a Sunday night.
The other one is listed as "WMEX-FM The most amazing oldies".That is indeed the one from
NH.Bad Bad Leroy Brown was playing
Eli: just saw your post.Sometimes the latest posts don't show till I log in.Thanks for the explanation.
1510wmex dot com still leads to the Renegade guys
though the domain may be expiring or subject to
renewal sometimes this year."Copyright 2017"
with news headlines from 2018. Anyone going there will be told WMEX is running the Renegade guys 6 to 10 am. "Join them today and every weekday from 6–10 AM right here on 1510 WMEX. If you’re not in our listening area you can listen online at 1510wmex.com or by using you’re (sic) tune in radio app (1510wmex)."
the DJ just said "WATD". They are indeed simulcasting WATD now on a Sunday night.
The other one is listed as "WMEX-FM The most amazing oldies".That is indeed the one from
NH.Bad Bad Leroy Brown was playing
Eli: just saw your post.Sometimes the latest posts don't show till I log in.Thanks for the explanation.
1510wmex dot com still leads to the Renegade guys
though the domain may be expiring or subject to
renewal sometimes this year."Copyright 2017"
with news headlines from 2018. Anyone going there will be told WMEX is running the Renegade guys 6 to 10 am. "Join them today and every weekday from 6–10 AM right here on 1510 WMEX. If you’re not in our listening area you can listen online at 1510wmex.com or by using you’re (sic) tune in radio app (1510wmex)."
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Eli,
You are one of the most coherent and articulate posters on this site. You don't trip all over your wording. Thank you for clarifying what another poster attempted to tell us.
Thanks, just trying to make sense of a confusing and convoluted situation. I wish there was a way to get paid for it!
WMEX and its sister stations are also on Radio.com as of last Friday.
Additional Boston area stations will be joining Radio.com at some point in the not-too-distant future as well.
I'm just overjoyed for Joe lol
Interesting Playlist
I must say it is interesting to hear classic rock songs like "Urgent" by Foreigner in the same playlist as 1950's deep dive songs. Also, they seem to have a fair amount of local ads. Is that part of a package where they air on WATD also? I hope they become self-sustaining.
I must say it is interesting to hear classic rock songs like "Urgent" by Foreigner in the same playlist as 1950's deep dive songs. Also, they seem to have a fair amount of local ads. Is that part of a package where they air on WATD also? I hope they become self-sustaining.
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MikaelaArsenault
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I'm listening to the station on Tunein right now.
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Groove1670
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How is the night signal of WMEX AM with 100 watts?
I get the night signal fairly well where I live in East Somerville, I'm listening to it right now, but because it transmits from near the Neponset River by the Quincy/Milton line, it hugs the coastline like the original 1510 WMEX signal did from that area. The night signal tends to fade out only a couple of miles inland here in Somerville, such as toward Davis Square. It gets East Cambridge but is fadey and spotty in the rest of the city from Central Square and Inman Square west.
While driving through the area at night, it comes in well in the upper South Shore including Quincy, Milton, Braintree, but fades by the south side of Weymouth. It goes inland to Randolph, Canton and to Dedham somewhat but fades out by Needham.
It gets the southern urban neighborhoods of Boston well over the Neponset Bridge including Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, West Roxbury, Roslindale, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, but it becomes weak by the South End and is very spotty among the buildings in downtown Boston.
Going inland west it fades out from the Back Bay/Fenway west toward Allston, and is barely audible in Brighton. Brookline is spotty and it's pretty much gone by Newton (where I grew up, the original 1510 WMEX night signal was weak there).
It gets coastal Boston well along the water including South Boston, East Boston, the North End, Charlestown, and the immediate inland Mystic Valley towns such as Chelsea, Everett and the eastern sides of Malden and Medford, and it gets the lower coastal North Shore over the water well such as Saugus, Revere, Winthrop, Nahant, Lynn, and even not bad in Salem and Marblehead. It can be heard, though faintly, a lot father right along the immediate coast in NH and ME.
Eli,
After the effort and time you put into tracking and documenting the reach of WMEX's 100-watt night-time signal, I would suspect Ed Perry owes you some compensation.
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