RE: Echo

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@bbnplanet.com>]

I have two AM radios I won from WEEI/590 in the early 80s.  They have the
logo and the dial is unmarked except for the 590 position.  I don't remember
the contest, but they were all news then.

- -Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of EBRadio
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 9:34 PM
> To: Dan Strassberg; oldradio@gte.net;
> boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Echo
>
>
> 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!
>
> ss
>
> 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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> >
> >
> >
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