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106.5 WMEX IS NOW BACK TO PLAYING OLDIES AND STREAMING ONLINE...

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PaulBWalkerJr

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The format flip occured sometime right after Christmas. They dumped the "X106" Pop type format and are now back to the Oldies format. I'm listneing to them and "Turn Turn Turn" is on as I type this.

You can go to their website, which is sitll at http://www.x106.fm
Or go directly to the 20K webstream at mms://70.85.123.3/wmex8631
 
No WMEX is in Boston. This must be a pirate or something. Check your facts my friend. Anyway that Internet cast sounds pretty good, and thier oldies are good. I like oldies. But WMEX is in Boston.
 
There's a lot of 80s too, so its not anything like the oldies they used to play. I heard it when I was up in the area a couple weeks ago. The format can't be much different than what it was as "X106."
 
Actually, it's alot different then their "X106" format.

I happen to personally know the person who selected/picks the music for WMEX.. and it is most definately Oldies and nowhere close to their X106 format.

I've been listening to them online for the last several hours, I haven't heardly "ALOT" of 80s, but there have been alot of oldies you won't hear on 96.7 The Wave WQSO or other oldies stations.

Please get your facts straight first, Mr. Lehmann.

(Correction,m it's www.1065wmex.com )
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
I happen to personally know the person who selected/picks the music for WMEX.. and it is most definately Oldies and nowhere close to their X106 format.
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I hope they do a better job of it than they did last time...their last attempt at oldies sounded really bush league. Amateurish presentation and played way too many stiffs. Has this station ever shown up in either the Seacoast or Concord/Lakes books?

Who was the programming genius there who decided to air re-runs of Wolfman Jack shows on an 80s station (in PM drive)?
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
Actually, it's alot different then their "X106" format.

I happen to personally know the person who selected/picks the music for WMEX.. and it is most definately Oldies and nowhere close to their X106 format.

I've been listening to them online for the last several hours, I haven't heardly "ALOT" of 80s, but there have been alot of oldies you won't hear on 96.7 The Wave WQSO or other oldies stations.
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I didn't post anything as being "fact." I'm just saying that what I heard was nothing like the "Oldies 106.5 WMEX" format that ended in the fall of 2005. I heard a lot of 70s, and I'm certain that there was some 80s. Yes, there also were some 60s songs that WQSO wouldn't play. It sounded like a good mix of music to me.

I remember hearing a lot of 70s and 80s on "X106" as well. OK, maybe its not exactly the same, but again, I didn't post as if I was absolutely certain about it either!

Here's some of what I heard less than a month ago: http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WMEX2007-02-24.mp3
 
Oldbones said:
I hope they do a better job of it than they did last time...their last attempt at oldies sounded really bush league. Amateurish presentation and played way too many stiffs. Has this station ever shown up in either the Seacoast or Concord/Lakes books?
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Not in the Lakes Region book, and to the best of my memory, it was never in the Seacoast book back before it was embargoed several years back.

Not to knock the station, but it hasn't really found a niche since it signed on a few years ago. At the time, "Oldies 96.7" was your generic oldies station, so they tried to go for a more 50s/60s approach. Then they went to the "X106" format... wasn't that supposed to be hot AC?... but it's not as though there are stations in the Lakes Region and the Seacoast (WERZ) that are already running strong hot ACs. Now it's back to oldies? Perhaps it's because WNNH/WLKZ and WQSO have evolved into classic hits, but who really knows.

At the least, the 106.5 CP was close to going to a non-comm religious group, so the dial could have gotten worse. Perhaps it's the station's location: not quite Lakes Region, but not Portsmouth. It can't really go closer to Portsmouth with WMJX to the south and WBQW to the north, or can it? I recall them applying to move closer toward the Lakes Region a year or two ago, not that it makes all that much sense to move a station to a smaller market....
 
WMEX is in Boston. The 106.5 FM frequecny is not really them. Although they do play oldies and call themselves WMEX all right. Paul Bwalker knows who programs the music there? OK Paul Bwalker who is it? who does this at 106.5? Is "Bwalker" a slavic name? I am proud to say that "Halland" is of Icelandic nature. We were known as "Haalend", and in some parts of the world as "Haalaanarda", but because so many elementary school teachers called us by the wrong name we decided to make it easier to spell and say. That was my late fathers doing. HIs name was Kenneth Haalend. People were always calling him "Hey-lend"..like "Hey, LEND me a dollar, or HEY, Lend me your snow blower"

WMEX is located in Boton at 1510, and always will be. BTW I like the fellow that plays oldies in the afternoon. Sounds verey major market. I know, I am listening to the streams now.
 
For years WMEX was in Boston at 1510 (and I guess to some they always will be). Over the years the calls
have popped up also on:

WMEX 1150 Boston--tried an oldies format, then biz news. Now WTTT conservative talk

Boston Radio Archive: "In 1985, Greater Media purchased AM 1150 and moved it in with WMJX 106.7. The new calls were WMEX, reviving one of Boston's best-known top 40 calls. WMEX went AM stereo with an oldies format, and soon bumper stickers were sprouting around town proclaiming, “WMEX is back!”

In 2000 the WMEX calls were placed on AM 1060 out of Natick with a talk format: Gene Burns, Jerry
Williams, Marge Clapprood, Upton Bell. Later it went biz news and...well, some of us know the Brad
Bleidt story...

for a time:
WMEX 102.5/102.9 Westport, NY--changed freq at one point...now WCLX, "the album station".

One day I did walk into the WMEX studios in Rochester, NH...a man (didn't catch his name) was working on
a comp. in the office while the station was playing automated oldies. I asked for some bumper stickers
but he said they didn't have any, and said I'd been listening to his station as I was driving around the
area (which was true) and said I enjoyed it. Well, they were playing some songs I hadn't heard in awhile
at least. (Maybe the man was Dennis Jackson...?)

>>Is "Bwalker" a slavic name?

he would be Paul_B_Walker...

I looked up a google map of Rochester...WMEX is/was in the building at 1 Wakefield St (corner of
Hanson St and just around the corner from N. Main St. where they have restaurants, shops,
Foster's Daily Democrat, and a riverside park)
 
the building I'd gone in was at the corner of Wakefield St. and Hanson St., judging by the google map of
Rochester I just looked up. Around the corner from rt 202A, N. Main St (if you go up that street there
are stores and restaurants and the HQ of Foster's Daily Democrat, on the left, and a park next to the
river also on the left)

and indeed, it also says WMEX is/was in the building at 1 Wakefield St
 
I'm not certain exactly who this radio station is trying to appeal to. It may excite the "oldies fanatic" (read that the guy in his basement with a stack of scratchy 45's) but I think this is about the worst music mix I've ever heard on any station. "The music I grew up with"? Don't think so - that would put me at about 57 years old... (I'm in my early 40's) So where's the wisdom in playing He's A Rebel, Cool Jerk and My Boy Lollipop on the same station that plays Bob Seeger, Eric Clapton and Wings? And talk about some total stiffs... Heard on Sunday morning: "Do It Again A Little Slower"? (Yeah - to be certain it was a top twenty song in 67 but that doesn't mean you should be playing it today. I actually had to Google the lyrics to find out what the hell it was) Sorry, my personal feeling that this station is a total mess. And if they're depending on "ratings" to sell - well - good luck....who considers such an old demo a quality sell? Yes, Yes, I know that 50+ have three times the money and are three times as likly to spend it -- the problem is convincing an ad agency (like mine) and advetisers that they want this demo. The sad fact is, they don't.
 
Is this another case of a radio station getting more exposure and discussion here, then in the real world of relevance in it's coverage area ? Is that the Gary James who used to do mornings / PD at WKNE-FM in Keene ?
 
I'm beginning to think that what HHalland is trying to convey is that he believes that there is no other TRUE WMEX other than the original in Boston. And with tongue in cheek, insists it still is. However, WMEX calls have in actuality been assigned to the station in Farmington, NH run by Dennis Jackson (of whom I am a minor personal acquaintance) for at least five years, if not more.

As for its format changes I wasn't aware of them, but do know that DJ is not prone to letting a station stagnate (at least when it's his pet project) so yes he will probably continue to tweak it until he can find something that listeners enjoy and will reflect on a book of some sort. And the station is in an awkward position to achieve mention in a book due to its odd transmitting location.
 
Hey Paul you are right and I was wrong I guess. WMEX IS in Rochester, and I hear that Mister Gary James is a nice guy, but let's look at radio stations call letters here. KFRC is NOT KFRC anymore is it? They have the K and the FRC right? But that is where the similaity ends with the original KFRC at the Big 610. The call letters WAYS were in Macon, Georgia somewhere, not Charlotte where they should be. Mr and Mrs Kaplan would be ruffled up by this whizzer huh? Same with WAPE..still in Jacksonville, but NOT at the mighty 690 like they should be. KLIF is not longer in Dallas at 1190..they got moved to 570 and more talking piles of trash. These letters should identify the stations forever. Otherwise we all get confused and the DX magazines all become obsolete and that's what the owners want..like if anyone had any loyal feelings to call letters anymore and that would make a difference. My personal opinion is that the call letters should remain with the station as it signed on in the first place. At least WMEX is still playing the music associated with WMEX and not some talking poop. I heard a few unusual songs on Saturiday. They must have a part time kid who brings in records from home to play. I think it is really really funny that Dennis Jackson's initials are DJ!! Did anybody here ever tink of that? What a profetic thing for his parents to have come up with..like the knew huh? And also. If they stopped calling the chocolate beverage Yoo Hoo and a tire company took it over and started selling Yoo Hoo tires, we would all be buying one thing expecting another. This is precisely why prostitutes change thier names for the street.
 
That wasn't Dennis, he lives in SW Connecticut.

If it was someone with dark brown or black hair, that was Morning man Gary James.
If it was someone with light/white hair, that was Gene Valle, their Sales Manager.

You know, the station may not show in the ratings, but i know for a fact they make a KILLING in the billing department,m they are constantly billing more and more each month.............. even sometimes, doing better then CC Rochester/Portsmouth.
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
You know, the station may not show in the ratings, but i know for a fact they make a KILLING in the billing department,m they are constantly billing more and more each month.............. even sometimes, doing better then CC Rochester/Portsmouth.
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I somehow doubt it judging by the spot load I've heard there. Or are you talking about percent gain? Yup, going from billing $400/mo to $800/mo means you doubled your billing. Still peanuts, but no one else doubled theirs so you beat them, right? Just like a station that goes from a .1 to a .3 share just tripled their ratings...fastest growing station in the market (been there)! OTOH, if they're really raking it in, maybe now they can afford to replace those 5 year old generic voicetracks.

Curiously, how is someone in South Carolina privy to the finances of a station in N.H anyway?
 
They are now live most of the day.. I don't know the specifics behind that though.

And how do I know? I have friends who work there...
 
And, yes, thats the same gary James, ex of WKNE, WHYN and WDRC-FM
 
I am starting tong or he would not write it on the public for everyone to see. I bet he's right. WMEX could charge to hear them and make way more trust Paull more. He must know somethi cou;n't say that all right so back off JACK
 
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