They're leasing the station to do the radio format of their choosing. I can tell you from experience many just want their choice of format and scratch their head wondering why advertisers aren't beating their door in or non-commercially, why donors haven't handed them blank checks. If I owned the station, I'd stay on top of who's looking to lease or who might buy the station.
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I'm a member of Boston's LGBT community and I can tell you I will never listen to this station. The primary reason is that the entire AM dial is nothing but an awful hiss here in my apartment in Boston. I have to hold the AM antenna for my stereo in a very specific position just to be able to hear the news on 1030 WBZ...and even then, the sound quality is pretty bad.
Theyre not leasing it, the people who own it, apepar to be doing this.
They'll have a website to stream it...which might be their end goal....
Yeh, Boston Market doesn't have any AM doing chinese at all, right? Quincy has been becoming Chinatown South for a good decade due to Cost of living, and availablity of affordable housing in Chinatown. Malden has a small asian community as well.
Just strange it's been 18 months and nothing has happened - Multicutural really wants to keep the lights on (via NYC link) to WLYN (and WAZN) which is odd...but the tax write off must be nice...and WAZN is a class B with more nighttime power.
WUNR 1600 AM has been all brokered ethnic for over half a century under the same ownership, and sounds like it still has a full schedule.
WNTN 1550 AM also seems to be hanging in there with mostly brokered ethnic for a few decades.
Also, FWIW the WMEX Facebook page is back on with no changes, posts or comments for a couple of weeks. WMEX 1510 AM
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That's odd...something weird is going on in Quincy...
I wanted to summarize what has happened to WMEX based on published reports. Ed Perry bought WMEX for $125,000 in March 2018 and moved the station's transmitter to Quincy with a reduction in power to 10000 watts day/200 watts night, omidirectional. Ed used his Marshfield studios to run the station. Ed sold it to L&J Media for $390K in July 2021, owned by Tony LaGreca and Larry Justice. They moved the studio and offices to Plymouth and added a trnslator at 101.1 FM in Weymouth. In early March 2026, L&J Media reportly sold the station to Tyler Nye's Local Media Boston for $1 plus the assumption of debt. He entered into a Local Marketing Agreement pending the sale but withdrew the offer, presumably because the debt was higher than expected.
On March 17, L&J Media informed the FCC that it changed its name to Local Media Boston, With Tony LaGreca as a 45% silent partner and Tyler Nye at 55%. Larry Justice was not in agreement and was bypassed, but it happened anyway and he was taken off the air. Larry commented that he "was experiencing some professional challenges, we hope will be cleared up soon and back on the air". This is still an open issue. It is not clear if Larry has any legal obligations with the station at present. It also appears he lost all his investment.
Since March, there have been 4 format changes. Unofficially, a fifth change is coming as bostonqradio.com shows the station changing to a format targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Please correct me if I have the facts incorrect. What a mess!
WMEX has been 100 watts nights since Ed Perry put it back on the air, never 200.
It has also been 2,000 watts during what the FCC calls “critical hours”, two hours before sunset and after sunrise, before it goes to 10,000 for the mid-day.
you have it right but im confuzzled at what theyre up to or why they think ay of this is a good idea. andwho is tyler ye, i wonder.. a small non comm on an island in NC and in a small GA town thats religious is all he has and theyre non comms with nothing local on them
Last I heard from a DXer on the OBX, his 88.1 WIID has been off the air since at least last fall. The website for 89.3 WSTY at one time had commercial syndicated CHR shows. I don’t know how the whole situation could possibly get any more strange…
That 88.1 was last running a syndicated format form one of the national program providers under the previous owner, a radio guy who is from long island and related to a long time NYC air talent.
But i have a feeling this isnt the last time well have a "hold my beer, watch this moment" with WMEX
It's going to get a lot stranger over the next couple of decades as advertisers and listeners in the demographics advertisers want to spend on abandon broadcast radio.
WMEX certainly won’t be one of the stations to survive the next couple decades….
Over the next couple of decades? Try right now.
I clearly remember having this conversation with my radio colleagues 25 years ago. Every radio station was targeting the same 40-year old median listener and there was zero investment in building future audiences with youth-targeted formats. I asked, where are the 40 year old radio listeners going to come from in 25 years if you don't give them a reason to turn on the radio when they're forming their listening habits when they're young?
The CEOs and consultants and stockholders only cared about instant gratification, though. And then along came the explosion of the internet, Napster, iPhones, YouTube, Spotify, and through it all radio kept myopically hammering away at the 25-49 demographic like it was the holy grail and nothing else mattered.
And here we are today with the answer I expected all along.
I thought the sale wasn't going through?
and this new RadioQ...they are going to get less than the .3 they get now in the ratings. WEEI-AM gets .1 but being sports betting, they don't care about numbers.
It did.. as said here,. more than once, once the sale was cancvelled, a few days later, L & J MEdia, the people who sold it to local media boston, field with the state to change their name to local media boston