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NERW on WMEX's return date and programming

Took part in Gary Leavitt and Friends Sun 6-8 am on WMEX. He interviewed a donut maker, singer Barrence Whitfield, Brian Kiley who writes for Conan O'Brien, a retired policeman who was doing a motorcycle ride in honor of his soldier son who was killed in action, and Gary talked to his own brother Larry about his book
about gangster Buddy McLean.

Audrey Constant ran the board.Past guests on the brokered show included comedian Lenny Clarke and Mike Girard of the band The Fools. While 1510 is doing its share of oldies they are also doing shows like that. Gary graduated with me at Salem State and was on WMWM.
 
raccoonradio said:
Took part in Gary Leavitt and Friends Sun 6-8 am on WMEX. He interviewed a donut maker, singer Barrence Whitfield, Brian Kiley who writes for Conan O'Brien, a retired policeman who was doing a motorcycle ride in honor of his soldier son who was killed in action, and Gary talked to his own brother Larry about his book
about gangster Buddy McLean.

Audrey Constant ran the board.Past guests on the brokered show included comedian Lenny Clarke and Mike Girard of the band The Fools. While 1510 is doing its share of oldies they are also doing shows like that. Gary graduated with me at Salem State and was on WMWM.
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Audrey is a long time friend ( I'll text her after I post this) and I am thinking of going down and sitting in with her on the board before I go back to Florida and maybe have breakfast after

Gary just got another hour, it is now 6A to 9A

A friend of mine who posts here ( I will not "out" him) did a fill in shift a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday night as Larry (no relation to Bob) Nelson was on Vacation.

I was listening online ( about a 75 second delay) and talking with him on the phone a few times.... I was a bit jealous as I would love to have a WMEX air check on my reel, but he said it was no big deal as he was more of a WBZ guy in his youth.

David Wolfson seems to be having a good time there too, I have not had a chance to call him but he loves radio so there is no bad time for him
 
Gary Leavitt and friends on WMEX 1510 now Sun 6-9 am but will move to Mon-Fri same hours starting Oct 1.Interviews of celebrities, sports figures, etc
 
raccoonradio said:
Gary Leavitt and friends on WMEX 1510 now Sun 6-9 am but will move to Mon-Fri same hours starting Oct 1.Interviews of celebrities, sports figures, etc
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This sounds riveting, exciting and a huge money maker
 
Just about all talk but if songs are played usually not oldies--for example local artists Barrence Whitfield and Mike Gerard (The Fools) were on--well Fools song was from 80s-- and one or two of their songs got played. The show, coming out of the MeTV Oldies, may start with most of an oldies song (like Beaver Brown's The Dark Side).
Larry Bragg of the Temptations will be on this Sunday and they are to premiere his new single.

Show is brokered but Gary pays himself back with sponsors.Had some comics on like Tony V,
a Sopranos actor, Livingston Taylor, etc..Bronson Arroyo is to be on.
 
Tonight 1510 WMEX is "MeTV Music", playing "the '70s, '80s, and a touch of '90s". First I heard "Yacht Rock Saturday Night", and then at 9 PM they switched to dance music. Some of the liners refer to "MeTV FM", so I wonder how much of it is a simulcast with WRME-LP in Chicago and the other MeTV FM stations. No DJs or commercials, but I did hear a local weather forecast, and they're using old WMEX jingles.
 
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Tonight 1510 WMEX is "MeTV Music", playing "the '70s, '80s, and a touch of '90s". First I heard "Yacht Rock Saturday Night", and then at 9 PM they switched to dance music. Some of the liners refer to "MeTV FM", so I wonder how much of it is a simulcast with WRME-LP in Chicago and the other MeTV FM stations. No DJs or commercials, but I did hear a local weather forecast, and they're using old WMEX jingles.
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Not a simulcast with other stations, its a syndicated formkat provided individually to stations
 
WMEX has been running MeTV Music evenings and nights for nearly two months.

The network's Saturday evening specialty shows, "Yacht Rock Saturday Night" and "Dance With Me", skew a little newer than their regular Sunday through Friday night programming which is "the '60s and '70s, with a touch of the '50s and '80s".

WMEX currently runs it weeknights 6:15 PM-5:00 AM, Saturdays mornings until 9:00 AM, Saturdays evenings from 6:00 PM (the two specialty shows mentioned above until midnight) to 6:00 AM Sundays.
 
The revived WMEX is supposed to be only 100 watts at night, but I was able to hear them loud and clear here in New Jersey well after sunset, so MeThinks they're using their full 10,000-watt daytime power at night.
 
kevtronics said:
The revived WMEX is supposed to be only 100 watts at night, but I was able to hear them loud and clear here in New Jersey well after sunset, so MeThinks they're using their full 10,000-watt daytime power at night.
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Was this last night (Saturday night) or tonight (Sunday night)?

WMEX did sound to me like it must have been on full daytime power for a few weeknights last week, but it sounded back down to low power (100 watts) last night, and now tonight.

I know that they rely on an automatic switcher for their power changes, it's not done manually, maybe something went wrong with it (without knowing, I'll guess maybe a programming glitch when the power-down time changed on Sept. 1?)
 
I notice this on the WMEX 1510 website (actually part of WATD): Sun 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. – The Bobby Katzen Baby Boomer and Gen X Fun and Nostalgia Show
This should be the same Bob Katzen who was on the old WMRE 1510 in the 80s as well as part of Jerry Williams on WRKO. He does Beacon Hill Roll Call too. Hmm.

(NOTE: searches for WMEX often turn up the previous owners who have a kind of 1510WMEX domain name. You get the 2017 lineup of Renegade Radio, Nancy Shack--now at WBZ and WRKO--and so on.) You have to go to the WATD site to get WMEX.)
In early 1987 WMRE 1510 went dark. I heard Morgan White Jr's last show there. There was a farewell party at the Breakfast Club which was at the corner of Boylston St and Brookline Ave. (care for an omelette with your beer?)
and Morgan was there along with Bob Katzen and others. At one point Ch 25 (Pat Robertson still owned them) wouldn't run the Joan Rivers Show so WMRE picked it up.

Bob Katzen http://www.nenpa.com/bob-katzen/

Renegade Radio is still being done as a podcast and maybe streaming with the "1510wmex dot com" site
A WHOIS search says that the 1510wmex . com domain name is good through Oct 9 of next year...with Renegade Radio running the site
 
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Are the Renegade people also squatting on wmex1510, oldies1510, wmexam, wmexoldies, and other possible names?
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WMEX, and very few other “Oldies” stations, actually use the word “Oldies” as a positioner anymore. You don’t hear it said on WMEX, though it’s an “oldies” format.

I think that, in general, the industry today feels that the word “Oldies” makes the audience “feel old”, and may connote that only “old people” listen. “Oldies” stations today usually identify as “the greatest hits of all time” and similar slogans, without using the word “oldies” any more.
 
Right about word oldies.What I'd heard was something like Jimmy Jay was getting them set up with a domain name; maybe he was the one using 1510wmex and had it pointed to the Renegade site (which has the 2017 lineup but also links to current podcasts of their Renegade Radio show, aka Bryan Berner and John Pica).Set to start in a couple weeks.

It was awkward to have to say you have to
go to the WATD site to get to WMEX.
One site offering links to webpages is MyRadioTuner, which has the link to that "Wave 105.3" I mentioned.For WMEX the audio link is indeed the current 1510 but the logo was the old "WMEX 1510 The Conversation Starts Here"

From the start of the revived station, the slogan
The Greatest Hits! has been used. In the years before the flip to CHR, WODS used slogan
Boston's Greatest Hits
If for years the thought was "oldies" or whatever one calls it (Classic Hits...) is stuff from 20-30 years ago then a station
doing that would be playing stuff from the 1990s.
WODS did 50s-60s, then 50s-70s, then 60s-80s etc.
Finally by 2012 when they changed they were 60s-80s but no 90s.
I heard Jimmy Jay play Traveling Wilburys from late 1988, on Sunday--admittedly a supergroup of stars best known in 60s and 70s.
 
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