WMEX (the final years)

[KEVIN VAHEY <fenway@zip1.ziplink.net>]

On Sun, 25 May 1997, supersport@eb101.com wrote:

> >
> >By far, WMEX had the better jocks and creativity.  It was too bad that the
> signal just didn't cut it.

  Another factor forgotten was WMEX's bold and perhaps fatal move in
making Dick Summer PD (circa 1969???)  MAC for all his faults did know
talent but he had no way of competing against RKO's built in network. The
fact that an advertiser could buy WRKO, WOR-FM (NY), KHJ (LA) , CKLW
(Detroit), KFRC (SF) and the station in Memphis was impossible to compete
against. 

 One afternoon I had the chance to shoot the bull with MAC on a park bench
in the triangle that was across from the station on the "new" Broadway. He
lamemted that he had the chance to buy WBOS-FM dirt cheap around 1965 but
saw no future in it as his FM (WPGC) in Morningside, Maryland was at the
time doing nothing, but he could see the future thru WRKO-FM, WEEI-FM and
others (speaking of WEEI-FM what ever happened to Dick Gutnam (sic) who
seemed to live there forever)

 I was working at WMUR-TV at the time and WMEX as a fill in and was
shocked to learn that Mac was a silent partner in the United Broadcasting
Corp owned by one Richard Eaton. Now according to MAC the plan was to move
the Channel 9 x-mtr to Georgetown MA and become an independent but the FCC
wouldn't buy it. 

 It probably would have been a great move for WMUR since in pre-cable days
nobody in Manchester could get a good signal from 9, since the x-mtr was
located due west of the city in Goffstown and everybody had their roof
antennas pointed towards Needham.

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