WESX: Nahant's Radio Station! (maybe)

[raccoonradio]

...no doubt this move will greatly please Nahant's huge Spanish-speaking population...(both of them)

When I was in high school the Lynn kids would make fun of us Nahanters by saying they were going to
cut the causeway off and let the town float away. Nahant used to be part of Lynn; it can still be seen
in the Lynn city seal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/LynnSeal.jpg

 

[raccoonradio]

Ah, Nahant, where I grew up. Full of shopping centers, major highways, skyscrapers...ah, just pulling your leg.
It has maybe 3,600 people and to the best of my knowledge doesn't have a traffic light. High school and
middle school kids go to Swampscott (in my day, we went to Lynn; I went to the same school as
Glenn Ordway, folks, Lynn Classical!). So that's why on Thanksgiving you never hear how the football
team at Nahant High did, because there is no Nahant High on that one-square mile peninsula.

But Nahant could have a radio station, yes folks! WESX! They're studying the possibility of making
Nahant its city--er, town of license. (Smallest town in the Commonwealth, area-wise.)

http://fybush.com/nerw.html

>>In early November, the FCC let Principle know that it wouldn't grant the waiver, giving WESX an opportunity to amend its application to fix the problem. Now the station has done so, changing its proposal to specify Nahant as the new city of license. This time, no waiver is required, as WESX would cover Nahant fully by day, and would cover 89.1% of the town with a nighttime interference-free signal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahant

Lynn based humorist Don White's "I'm From Lynn, What Can I say?" has the lyric "I don't talk slick
like I'm from Nahant" (he then vamps, "And what is Nahant, you ask? Well it's a little town of incredibly
rich people who must be cursed in life because they can't get anywhere in the world without...
driving directly through Lynn!" (Laughs maniacally).. "I feel so bad for them!!"

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

When they bought WESX, part of the deal (from what I heard at the time...) was that they would move to the WLYN tower location (on the Saugus/Lynn line) and sell
the land in Marblehead for big bucks and recoup a large part of their initial investment.
As WLYN leases time on that tower, we do not own it, and, therefore, we could not stop the move. However, from what I have also heard, the land in Marblehead is subject to a variety of zoning restrictions, and therefore may not be as valuable as they had originally projected. Add to that the recent death of their point man, Otto Miller, who used to work directly for our (WLYN's) parent company, MRBI.

The move may happen eventually, but I would not expect it to be anytime soon.
The good people of Nahant may just have to wait a bit longer! :0)

 

[raccoonradio]

Yes, I remember reading that they wanted to relocate the tower and sell the land in Marblehead...yes,
I now remember that Otto Miller had passed on and I wasn't aware of the zoning regulations. Who knows
when it'll happen!

 

[NO DAG]

Even if the COL is changed to Nahant, no one on "the rock" will even know WESX is there..