That is a good playlist, and having the three different "Fire" songs in rotation is cool, the only thing is Ed wants to sprinkle some big '50s hits into the mix, representing the whole original WMEX rock'n'roll era. The oldest song I see there is the Beach Boys from 1963. I know that most programmers today would say that '50s music is now "too old" and won't attract advertisers, and from a commercial viewpoint they're right, but at 80 himself Ed doesn't think that way.
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NERW on WMEX's return date and programming
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That is a good playlist, and having the three different "Fire" songs in rotation is cool, the only thing is Ed wants to sprinkle some big '50s hits into the mix, representing the whole original WMEX rock'n'roll era. The oldest song I see there is the Beach Boys from 1963. I know that most programmers today would say that '50s music is now "too old" and won't attract advertisers, and from a commercial viewpoint they're right, but at 80 himself Ed doesn't think that way.
Well, it's finally on the air. Let the record show that the first songs played on the latest incarnation of WMEX were not some long-forgotten musical relics but Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World," Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and the Young Rascals' "Groovin'." Larry Justice sounds enthusiastic, if a bit slower in delivery than in days of yore. Audio on the stream still has slight distortion, but it does seem to be in stereo.
UPDATE: Four songs in and the dust flies off the disc! "My Prayer," by the Platters.
UPDATE: Four songs in and the dust flies off the disc! "My Prayer," by the Platters.
I listened to about an hour of Larry Justice's show this morning and just turned the stream back on for a sampling of Joe McMillan. The first song I heard was "The Night Chicago Died," which was also played in that first hour this morning. That was about four hours ago. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to spending time with a station with Paper Lace in power rotation! Kind of makes me wonder whether the jocks are picking their own music. In the last-played songs this hour is the Box Tops' "Sweet Cream Ladies Forward March." Will I hear it this evening?
Also, no ads, not even a PSA or promo so far.
Also, no ads, not even a PSA or promo so far.
The article indicates that WMEX will simulcast WATD from 6 p.m. to 9:15 a.m. weekdays, and for all but four or five hours of the day on weekends. No indication that it will be staying in format with oldies during those times, automated or live.
Ha!! Maybe some exciting infomercials!
I believe WATD overnights is an eclectic music mix, automated. In other dayparts, a variety of specialty music and hyper-local news/talk shows air. Some of the music is oldies, but not the greater part.
Pretty sure the eclectic overnights on WATD are live. I’d rather hear automated oldies on 1510 and the stream myself.
Saturdays 12:15pm to 12 midnight and Sundays 1pm to 5pm will be simulcasting the long-running weekend oldies shows from WATD. Ron Dwyer in the afternoons, various hosts Saturday nights.
Weekend mornings will be Jimmy Jay hosting oldies on WMEX independently from 8am until the weekend afternoon simulcast oldies shows start.
The weeknight simulcasts from 6pm on will be whatever WATD runs, at least for now. Some local talk shows, some brokered shows, various variety music shows later at night. 5am to 9:15am weekdays will be the simulcast of the WATD morning news program.
I don't believe WATD (or WMEX) uses automated music programming, but some of the graveyard shift music programs are entire show rebroadcasts, with announcements that they're pre-recorded.
No, because the oldies format ends at 6 PM.
super secret video of the start of WMEX this morning...
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https://t.co/K2eeY3AzAj WMEX 1510 streaming link.Also on a link on the main WATD page.I guess the TuneIn link that says WMEX is for talk shows with previous owners (Renegade Radio)
They don't have a special URL that's easy to remember.The lineup is also on a page linked to WATD.
They were just playing Johnny Lee's Lookin for Love, a country crossover.I like getting a bit of variety.
They don't have a special URL that's easy to remember.The lineup is also on a page linked to WATD.
They were just playing Johnny Lee's Lookin for Love, a country crossover.I like getting a bit of variety.
Crystal Gayle's "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," too. Also, I heard Orpheus' "Can't Find the Time" this morning. Ahhh, the ill-fated MGM Records Bosstown Sound hype of 1968-69! While WMEX was playing the mellow Orpheus, WBCN was trying its best to push the harder, more psychedelic Ultimate Spinach. There was also Earth Opera, signed to Elektra, which had a song called "The Red Sox Are Winning" that got lots of BCN airplay in the afterglow of the 1967 Impossible Dream season.
As I said the other day, tens of oldies geeks will be loving this station. I'm already hearing the jocks mentioning getting calls and emails from all over the country, which, of course, doesn't make the station any easier to sell to advertisers.
Just to clarify, WMEX is only playing the regional Orpheus hit. I haven't heard those old BCN acts on any radio station for decades. I can see how Orpheus might not be available on CD, but surely Johnny Lee and Crystal Gayle's national crossover hits are, aren't they?
Right, but I don't think Earth Opera is. Warner owns Elektra. I think UMG owns all the old MGM catalogue.
Please read my post again. I believe I made it clear that Earth Opera is NOT being played on WMEX and NEVER was played on WMEX. The band was played ONLY on free form/progressive WBCN in 1968-69. I don't know how I can make that any clearer. Who owns the Elektra catalog is irrelevant.
I played all that local early ‘BCN stuff, Ultimate Spinach, Earth Opera (founding member Peter Rowan, still continuing in a successful career in bluegrass and folk-rock, performed live on my show), etc... on my old ‘60s/‘70s show on non-commercial non-profit MIT college station WMBR, which I modeled after my memories of WBCN’s progressive “free-form” years, until I stopped doing the show just a few years ago.
Of course, this was an all-volunteer station, so I wasn’t paid to do this show. No station would pay for such a show any more, haven’t for decades. It was a hobby and labor of love, which is why I had to stop. After 35 years, volunteer radio and life in the New Millennium could no longer financially co-exist for me.
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