WMEX

[Deleted member 64531]

The FCC has accepted the application for Assignment of License of WMEX according to todays FCC CDBS, but read the details. Looks like the Calls (among other things) are not part of the deal.
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101759053&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

 

[raccoonradio]

Thanks for info..
Been told by Fybush Daly had control of those WMEX calls by arrangement with WMEX-LP in NH.Who knows, could Perry want to use them and makes own agreement..

 

[CTListener]

Unless the new owners plan to program '50s and '60s oldies for a largely 65+ audience, the WMEX call is irrelevant. The big question is why the previous ownership wants to keep it.

 

[raccoonradio]

See above (edited my post, new info)

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks for info..
Been told by Fybush Daly had control of those WMEX calls by arrangement with WMEX-LP in NH.Who knows, could Perry want to use them and makes own agreement..

if it will cost money, Ed won't do it.

He could just go with WATD AM by moving the calls off that other dog station he bought.

 

[raccoonradio]

From sale agreement:
"10. Litigation.
The parties recognize that a law suit is pending in the Superior Court of Middlesex
County, Massachusetts between Duffy Associates, LLC vs. Daly XXL Communications,
LLC d/b/a WMEX, Blackstrap Broadcasting, LLC and Edward Perry regarding transmitter
towers."

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I'd think that after this is said and done and Ed owns 1510 (initially with different call letters), that he could put in a new request for the WMEX calls if he wants to spend the effort and money. I think he knows the owners of of WMEX-LPFM in Rochester, NH (one was a PD of WMEX, Boston in its oldies 1150 AM incarnation in the '80s) and may be able to get a new agreement with them for the use.

 

[CTListener]

I'd think that after this is said and done and Ed owns 1510 (initially with different call letters), that he could put in a new request for the WMEX calls if he wants to spend the effort and money. .

Again, only if he plans to use the station to play 50- to 65-year-old songs.

 

[DrAkbar]

From sale agreement:
"10. Litigation.
The parties recognize that a law suit is pending in the Superior Court of Middlesex
County, Massachusetts between Duffy Associates, LLC vs. Daly XXL Communications,
LLC d/b/a WMEX, Blackstrap Broadcasting, LLC and Edward Perry regarding transmitter
towers."

Also this interesting tid-bit:

Simultaneously with filing the FCC application, Seller will provide Purchaser with a letter consenting to Purchaser filing an application for a new FM Translator station, pursuant to Section 73.3517(a) of the FCC’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 73.3517(a), at Purchaser’s sole cost and discretion, in the FCC Auction 100 filing window, such new FM translator station to be paired with WMEX.

So let me see if I got this right - an off the air AM feeding an FM translator. YIKES!

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Also this interesting tid-bit:

Simultaneously with filing the FCC application, Seller will provide Purchaser with a letter consenting to Purchaser filing an application for a new FM Translator station, pursuant to Section 73.3517(a) of the FCC’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 73.3517(a), at Purchaser’s sole cost and discretion, in the FCC Auction 100 filing window, such new FM translator station to be paired with WMEX.

How could the FM translator be paired with WMEX if, according to the first page of the document, the WMEX call sign
is excluded from the sale and Ed will have to request a new call sign?

The translator will have to be paired with 1510 AM, but not as WMEX, with some other call sign.

 

[davideduardo]

So let me see if I got this right - an off the air AM feeding an FM translator. YIKES!

They probably employed the same FCC counsel as KNAI!

 

[raccoonradio]

It was noted at one point the frequency was given as 1510 MHz not kHz on the document.
Presumably they will get back on AM somehow then can go for FM translator...and might Ed have to help pay for any debt Daly XXL owes in tower rent? As Scott noted, getting use of WMEX calls is low on the priority list
Tower site, COL and/or power change etc

 

[raccoonradio]

Scott Fybush said on FB the use of the calls is subject to whomever had the "base calls" the longest (WMEX-LP here) and anyone wanting to use those calls on another service like AM,FM or TV needs permission.Sale of the station negates the agreement.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

How could the FM translator be paired with WMEX if, according to the first page of the document, the WMEX call sign
is excluded from the sale and Ed will have to request a new call sign?

Until such time as an application is approved to change the calls, the calls are still WMEX for the purposes of all business with the Commission. No reason to do that until the sale is approved (or maybe even consummated), since there is a filing fee involved to change the calls.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

It was noted at one point the frequency was given as 1510 MHz not kHz on the document.
Presumably they will get back on AM somehow then can go for FM translator...
Tower site, COL and/or power change etc

All that's needed to correct that is one decimal point they omitted. 1510 kHz is 1.510 mHz.

 

[DrAkbar]

Who in their right mind thinks the WMEX calls have value? Oh, that's right... the current owner who is selling the license for $125,000.




shhhh...WMMX, WMXX, WIMX and WYMX are Wimmex sound alikes and are available with permission of the current FM's who own the calls.

 

[raccoonradio]

RadioInsight:" Also the contract states that the current tower site owner Duffy Associates, LLC has filed a lawsuit against Daly XXL Communications, Ed Perry, and former WMEX owner Blackstrap Broadcasting"

 

[Methuselah]

It would be interesting to read that court filing. I cannot imagine the tower site owner has any legal claim against Duffy.

 

[raccoonradio]

I think Duffy is tower site owner--did you mean Perry? Note that Blackstrap is involved in case, too; is it a matter of we-are-owed-money-and-someone-will pay, even if it's the prospective new owners of W___ (future calls) 1510?

From site DuffyProperties dot com:
"Bear right onto Trapelo Road as it joins Route 60 onto Waverley Oaks Road. Continue on Waverley Oaks Road for 0.6 miles and turn left into the parking lot at Waverley Oaks Office Park."
The tower site.

 

[Methuselah]

Sorry, meant Perry, the buyer.