WLOE (was News on the Weekends)

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

Shel wrote--
>
>Interestingly...wasn't WMEX original WLOE, a classical-music station at 1500 
>AM?

Not exactly.  WMEX was indeed WLOE originally-- or sort of.  WLOE lost its
license in late 1933, and the same two guys under a different name (!) put
WMEX on the air a year later.  But never did WLOE do Classical.  It was a
typical 1920s and 30s station, with everything from a live band (The Hotel
Bellevue Orchestra) to church services to the hits of the day to a story
lady (well, a story man-- one of the owners read the stories for the
kiddies) to some advertising talks.  Classical was an occasional show, I am
sure, but not very often.  WMEX originally did  some ethnic programming
(Italian and Jewish mainly) as well as the same types of things that its
predecessor WLOE had been doing...  I didn't listen to WMEX in the 1950s
before the Richmond Brothers bought it and switched it to top-40 in 1958,
so maybe in the 50s it was playing some classical music????  

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