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87.9 FM The Wave

I heard them on the air once and it was an automatic turn off. All I heard was kids swearing over rock music. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if what MickeyD said was true.
 
Only time I ever visited WBMT was years ago during the middle of the afternoon. WMWM had a DJ named Brian Less (blues, like me) who also had done shows for WNSH (Briefcase Full of Blues, and I'd filled in for him there) and WBMT. It looked like a typical college or high school station, just a bunch of records and some students as DJs, etc. Seemed fairly regulated (and part time, as now)...then...

I've picked up what I guess is WBMT in the lunchroom of my workplace in N. Reading. Didn't hear DJs,
maybe a PSA, but just alt rock or hard rock music. (Also btw yesterday picked up a station at 101.5 while
driving in Rowley, and it was playing Hello Dolly by Carol Channing. Thought it could be a pirate then I
remembered, doesn't WERS have a translator in Rockport or something? Sure enough, tuned to 88.9 and it was the same stuff (the long running Broadway show)
 
aaronread said:
Of all the pirates in the area they chose to shut down the Wave? I can think of at least 10 pirates that should have gotten a visit instead of this guy in Boxford.
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Probably the FCC got a complaint. The FCC's Enforcement Bureau, for better or worse, is mostly a REACTIVE agency instead of a PROACTIVE one. They need to receive a complaint from a party with standing before they'll act.

Being in Boxford, I would guess that there was a complaint from a listener to WBMT (2nd adjacent interference, when WBMT is on the air) or maybe WMBR (1st adjacent). Or possibly WBZ-FM (which would receive 10.6MHz I.F. interference, albeit in a pretty small radius...just takes one offended listener, though!)

I remember there was a pirate on 90.5 in the Dorchester area not far from the Boston Globe. That was a dumb move...I hear there were several complaints from Globe staffers wanting to listen to WBUR, and I'm sure a complaint was filed by WBUR itself, too. Said pirate barely lasted two weeks before a visit. Meanwhile, all the pirates in the expanded AM band (1610-1700 kHz) aren't interfering with anyone in Boston as long as they avoid 1650 too close to Logan...so there's no complaints from anyone with standing, and the pirates continue broadcasting for years.
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WBMT is a bunch of drunken high school kids and has a schedule that is on a" when we feel like it" basis. They have been operating on an STA for over four yearsand is scheduled for a license hearing based upon complaints about obscenities. That is a station the FCC should shut down.
 
MickeyD said:
WBMT is a bunch of drunken high school kids and has a schedule that is on a" when we feel like it" basis. They have been operating on an STA for over four yearsand is scheduled for a license hearing based upon complaints about obscenities. That is a station the FCC should shut down.
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Since this station has such a limited range, how do you know so much about it's operation. From what I recall, you are not in the area, right?
 
Don Juan said:
MickeyD said:
WBMT is a bunch of drunken high school kids and has a schedule that is on a" when we feel like it" basis. They have been operating on an STA for over four yearsand is scheduled for a license hearing based upon complaints about obscenities. That is a station the FCC should shut down.
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Since this station has such a limited range, how do you know so much about it's operation. From what I recall, you are not in the area, right?
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I am a Boston native and have an FCC attorney and utilize the FCC's document contractor quite a bit. Pull the documents on the station and it will blow your socks off. Up until a couple of months ago the station was being streamed. They sign on when they want and sign off when they want. They announce the parties they are having at the school and it is obvious no one at the school is listening to what goes on there. From what I have read from the file, it is doubtful they will be getting their license renewed.
You don't tell the FCC that it is okay to swear on the radio.
I can tell you some stories about high school stations in NJ too.
 
I sent an email asking about it and told him what I saw on here. I got a response and he told me it was just the tower that was going with it. Maybe he changed his mind since then I don't know.
 
Yes its been confirmed that the only thing that goes with it is the tower. He is however giving away some old audio boards from what it says in the new email I got.
 
MickeyD said:
Don Juan said:
MickeyD said:
WBMT is a bunch of drunken high school kids and has a schedule that is on a" when we feel like it" basis. They have been operating on an STA for over four yearsand is scheduled for a license hearing based upon complaints about obscenities. That is a station the FCC should shut down.
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Since this station has such a limited range, how do you know so much about it's operation. From what I recall, you are not in the area, right?
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I am a Boston native and have an FCC attorney and utilize the FCC's document contractor quite a bit. Pull the documents on the station and it will blow your socks off. Up until a couple of months ago the station was being streamed. They sign on when they want and sign off when they want. They announce the parties they are having at the school and it is obvious no one at the school is listening to what goes on there. From what I have read from the file, it is doubtful they will be getting their license renewed.
You don't tell the FCC that it is okay to swear on the radio.
I can tell you some stories about high school stations in NJ too.
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OK Mickey, can you tell me about high school stations in NJ?
 
Nick said:
MickeyD said:
Don Juan said:
MickeyD said:
WBMT is a bunch of drunken high school kids and has a schedule that is on a" when we feel like it" basis. They have been operating on an STA for over four yearsand is scheduled for a license hearing based upon complaints about obscenities. That is a station the FCC should shut down.
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Since this station has such a limited range, how do you know so much about it's operation. From what I recall, you are not in the area, right?
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I am a Boston native and have an FCC attorney and utilize the FCC's document contractor quite a bit. Pull the documents on the station and it will blow your socks off. Up until a couple of months ago the station was being streamed. They sign on when they want and sign off when they want. They announce the parties they are having at the school and it is obvious no one at the school is listening to what goes on there. From what I have read from the file, it is doubtful they will be getting their license renewed.
You don't tell the FCC that it is okay to swear on the radio.
I can tell you some stories about high school stations in NJ too.
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OK Mickey, can you tell me about high school stations in NJ?
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Not much except that many haven't been on he air for more than a year.
 
Only a month after the shutdown and there is already another pirate on 87.9 FM. I caught it faintly today. They were playing dance/techno music and a guy with a deep voice was IDing the station as "The New 87.9 FM?" Too faint to hear the full ID. Has anyone else heard this?
 
RE: WBMT.... I got my start in radio on that station. No joke... I knew a kid from Masco who did a punk show on the station and he had me come guest DJ with him in '98. I ended up co-hosting the show with him until he graduated in 1999. The station's supervisor was a state trooper and, no, I'm not joking. And they took a dim view of playing music with curse words so we'd "bleep" out the bad words in the songs. Anyway, the last night we were doing the show, Mr. Trooper thought he heard a song with cursing (it actually wasn't one), came in and threw the kid off the air but let me finish the show, for some reason. I don't know what the deal is now but it was a pretty active station back then.

... after that, I went to Allston-Brighton Free Radio and didn't worry one bit about playing songs with curse words ;D ... and now that the show is web-only, I REALLY don't have to worry about it. :D
 
SonicAl said:
RE: WBMT.... I got my start in radio on that station. No joke... I knew a kid from Masco who did a punk show on the station and he had me come guest DJ with him in '98. I ended up co-hosting the show with him until he graduated in 1999. The station's supervisor was a state trooper and, no, I'm not joking. And they took a dim view of playing music with curse words so we'd "bleep" out the bad words in the songs. Anyway, the last night we were doing the show, Mr. Trooper thought he heard a song with cursing (it actually wasn't one), came in and threw the kid off the air but let me finish the show, for some reason. I don't know what the deal is now but it was a pretty active station back then.

... after that, I went to Allston-Brighton Free Radio and didn't worry one bit about playing songs with curse words ;D ... and now that the show is web-only, I REALLY don't have to worry about it. :D
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You mean Walker. He is a Topsfield cop right now. WBMT is not the station you remember it outlived it's usefullness. SPend some cash and get the doments that are filed on WBMT now and you will be amazed.
 
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