Re: Echo

[EBRadio <ebradio@flash.net>]

Somewhere I around here, I had a cigarette lighter that I won from WMEX in
1968, from a DJ called Tom Sawyer.  The contest was, I believe The Russians
are coming or the Bonnie and Clyde contest (of which I also won a Raleigh
motorbike).  Anyway, the cigarette lighter had a picture where the clear
fuel used to show, and the picture was of WMEX's Broadcast house and said
"Wimmex Broadcast House s- 1956"  One thing about WMEX in 66-69, they gave
away incredible prizes and had very creative contests.  WRKO never, in my
opinion, had the better of the creativity nor jocks.  Of course, $$$ and
signal, yes!

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At 10:42 AM 7/9/98 +0000, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>At 07:27 AM 7/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>I can't remember who the DJ's were on 'MEX in 1949-1952.
>>The afternoon guy had a high school countdown segment
>>(like Bob Clayton's WHDH "Boston Ballroom") inviting students
>>to do a top record poll in their school and come to be
>>on the show to introduce the results.
>
>Well, I didn't arrive in Boston until late May 1956. And the Richmond
>Brothers didn't buy WMEX (out of bankruptcy, I believe)) until either late
>in the summer of 1956, or more likely. 1957. So I got to hear a little bit
>of the WMEX while it was still owned by The Northern Corp (about which Donna
>can tell us so much). I remember that when I first arrived, the afternoon DJ
>on WMEX was Jolly Jay MacMaster. He remained at the station after the shift
>to the Theater of Beautiful Music, which preceded the Richmond regime. When
>WMEX went top 40, WBOS began the WBOS Music Theater to pick up the WMEX
>audience. No Boston-area station did beautiful music 24/7 (or even 18/7),
>until several years later, when WBOS-FM signed on.
>
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