New WMEX CP

[Fenway1912]

You have to write it like Kenny always said it: WO9........89.....8....9.

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Kenny Mayer was a living anachronism lurking quietly on the fringes of Boston radio. He did a brief stint at WBZ (AM) sometime in the early 1950's, and later...

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[AerieAlso]

People may have forgotten that in that age on Sunday night at midnight, nearly all Boston stations left the air for transmitter maintenance. WUNR and WHDH were (if I remember correctly) the only stations that remained on the air after midnight. So Kenny Mayer had pretty much a captive audience. I listened regularly.

WBZ would eventually come back on the air around 1 AM, playing music with no commercials, and an occasional "this is WBZ Boston conducting transmitter tests" and "this is WBZ Boston testing the auxiliary transmitter"

Does anyone remember the show that came on after Kenny was no longer on WUNR (I think he may have died)? It was a very young woman who had pretty much nothing to say. The word was her father rented the time on WUNR for her. I only listened once

 

[vmorrison99]

Kenny Mayer, WBOS Radio : Hooligan Archives : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Kenny Mayer was a living anachronism lurking quietly on the fringes of Boston radio. He did a brief stint at WBZ (AM) sometime in the early 1950's, and later...

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I still remember two of the Mayer's longtime sponsors were Porter Chevrolet and KENS in Copley Square. In the early 80's Mayer taped the program during the week. He would plug in his white electric clock set it for midnight and begin his program. He would give the time throughout the show assuming that that the WUNR engineer started the program on time. More often than not that was not the case and Mayer's time checks could be 5 to 10 minutes ahead of the actual time. I don't believe the station ever got a call from a listener about the time difference.

The station did get quite a number of calls about the host of one of the Spanish music programs who was advocating for the overthrow of a Central American countries elected leader. This went on for a number of weeks because not one of the small staff at UNR understood Spanish. After the on air calls for a revolution was discovered by station management a guy named Fernando who I believe was actually from Portugal was paid to monitor all the Spanish language programs.

 

[philsirkin]

I still remember two of the Mayer's longtime sponsors were Porter Chevrolet and KENS in Copley Square. In the early 80's Mayer taped the program during the week. He would plug in his white electric clock set it for midnight and begin his program. He would give the time throughout the show assuming that that the WUNR engineer started the program on time. More often than not that was not the case and Mayer's time checks could be 5 to 10 minutes ahead of the actual time. I don't believe the station ever got a call from a listener about the time difference.

The station did get quite a number of calls about the host of one of the Spanish music programs who was advocating for the overthrow of a Central American countries elected leader. This went on for a number of weeks because not one of the small staff at UNR understood Spanish. After the on air calls for a revolution was discovered by station management a guy named Fernando who I believe was actually from Portugal was paid to monitor all the Spanish language programs.

Don't forget Lucifer's, K-K-K-Katy's and Yesterday.

 

[inorm99]

Sidebar: it is interesting that people from the Northeast have to put their state along with the city nearly always.

The county I live in is bigger than CT and RI combined, and the one next to us is twice as big as Massachusetts or a little bigger than VT and NH combined.

Or Norwood NJ

 

[Eli Polonsky]

WMEX has been granted a construction permit to upgrade their FM translator 101.1 W266DQ from 16 watts ND from a small antenna in downtown Weymouth to 250 watts directional from the tower near the Quincy Quarry that is currently also used for 91.9 WUMB's main Boston area signal, the 94.9 FM translator W235CS for 890 WAMG Dedham, and the 102.1 FM translator W271CG for WRYP 90.1 FM Falmouth (unless they've moved that to a CP in Needham).

This translator will be highly directional to the east, covering the upper South Shore (Quincy, Milton, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Hull, maybe a bit farther southeast down the coast). I doubt it will reach Boston at all except maybe the southernmost part of Dorchester due to a null to the north and the powerful co-channel Class B WGIR-FM Manchester, NH to the north. It will cover a lot more ground than the current 16 watt translator that barely covers the COL Weymouth.

W266DQ-FM 101.1 MHz - Weymouth, MA

 

[CTListener]

More good listening for the fish, too. They're well served by Boston radio on AM, might as well get them a strong new FM signal to enjoy.

 

[raccoonradio]

In the days when they had sports and some talk we'd joke about how their nickname could be The Fish, as in that's where the signal was going out to, mostly--to serve the fish.

 

[fybush]

The "fish" thing has always seemed pretty silly to me. There's lots of population near the coast and no way to stop RF signals at the water's edge.

What matters is the number of people between the transmitter site and the fish, of course.

 

[CTListener]

In the days when they had sports and some talk we'd joke about how their nickname could be The Fish, as in that's where the signal was going out to, mostly--to serve the fish.

1510 got reception reports regularly from Ireland, IIRC.

 

[jlehmann]

WMEX has been granted a construction permit to upgrade their FM translator 101.1 W266DQ from 16 watts ND from a small antenna in downtown Weymouth to 250 watts directional from the tower near the Quincy Quarry that is currently also used for 91.9 WUMB's main Boston area signal, the 94.9 FM translator W235CS for 890 WAMG Dedham, and the 102.1 FM translator W271CG for WRYP 90.1 FM Falmouth (unless they've moved that to a CP in Needham).

102.1 in Quincy is not a translator for 90.1 WRYP Wellfleet. It picks up 103.7 in Boston over the air, which translates 88.5 WWRN. Of course they’re all Renew FM stations. WRYP is rarely on the air, usually off with odd things mentioned in the STA. I think their tower has fallen over twice…

Often during tropo 102.1 will pick up 103.7 WPKQ.

 

[blackgold]

People may have forgotten that in that age on Sunday night at midnight, nearly all Boston stations left the air for transmitter maintenance. WUNR and WHDH were (if I remember correctly) the only stations that remained on the air after midnight. So Kenny Mayer had pretty much a captive audience. I listened regularly.

WBZ would eventually come back on the air around 1 AM, playing music with no commercials, and an occasional "this is WBZ Boston conducting transmitter tests" and "this is WBZ Boston testing the auxiliary transmitter"

Does anyone remember the show that came on after Kenny was no longer on WUNR (I think he may have died)? It was a very young woman who had pretty much nothing to say. The word was her father rented the time on WUNR for her. I only listened once

The program was the Joy Berger show. She filled up Kenny's spot in the midnight to 2 a.m. slot. She was also a hostess for a Jewish program called "The Ruach Hour" on Tuesday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Norm Ruby would introduce it in dramatic fashion.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

WMEX has been granted a construction permit to upgrade their FM translator 101.1 W266DQ from 16 watts ND from a small antenna in downtown Weymouth to 250 watts directional from the tower near the Quincy Quarry that is currently also used for 91.9 WUMB's main Boston area signal and the 94.9 FM translator W235CS for 890 WAMG Dedham.

This translator will be highly directional to the east, covering the upper South Shore (Quincy, Milton, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Hull, maybe a bit farther southeast down the coast). I doubt it will reach Boston at all except maybe the southernmost part of Dorchester due to a null to the north and the powerful co-channel Class B WGIR-FM Manchester, NH to the north. It will cover a lot more ground than the current 16 watt translator that barely covers the COL Weymouth.

W266DQ-FM 101.1 MHz - Weymouth, MA

The CP is now on the air. It reaches a bit farther north into the Boston neighborhoods than I expected. Heading north on the SE Xway, it covers through all of Dorchester and can be heard in spots almost up to the O’Neill Tunnel.

 

[raccoonradio]

The CP is now on the air. It reaches a bit farther north into the Boston neighborhoods than I expected. Heading north on the SE Xway, it covers through all of Dorchester and can be heard in spots almost up to the O’Neill Tunnel.

Radio-Locator.com

Radio Station Search Engine

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Winthrop to Kingston, Dedham to the ocean if you count fringe area.
Radio-Locator maps are approx.

 

[fybush]

The "fringe" (40 dBu) contour on R-L is not a usable signal in most cases.

And you KNOW that, Bob. So please stop posting it as though it means anything.

 

[davideduardo]

The "fringe" (40 dBu) contour on R-L is not a usable signal in most cases.

And when looking at fixed location listening (home and work) an extensive study of hundreds of thousands of listening incidents in 20 top markets showed that 80% were inside the 70 dbu contour and 95% inside the 65 dbu contour. While some here think that nobody listens to radio at home or work any more, it is actually a bit over 50% of all listening; that's because at those locations listening time is much longer.

Although such locations will gradually migrate to Alexa and friends, the key element for a successful station is a 65 dbu that covers significant population. And, of course, not 40 dbu.

 

[raccoonradio]

Well MEX and its fans are crowing about it on FB and someone claimed to be able to pick it up on North Shore.
Crowded freq. They consider it worthy.

WMEX 1510 FB
"@followers
Welcome 101.1 FM QUINCY to the WMEX Family!"

 

[CTListener]

Well MEX and its fans are crowing about it on FB and someone claimed to be able to pick it up on North Shore.

Someone living less than a half-mile from the coast in Nahant or Lynn, I'll bet.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Someone living less than a half-mile from the coast in Nahant or Lynn, I'll bet.

Yes, it was someone who got it on Revere Beach. Said it did not come in at his home just a little ways inland.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Radio-Locator.com

Radio Station Search Engine

radio-locator.com

Winthrop to Kingston, Dedham to the ocean if you count fringe area.
Radio-Locator maps are approx.

Radio-Locator maps also don’t take co-channel or adjacent channel station interference into account. They are as if the mapped station is alone on the dial.