Re: WLOE (was News on the Weekends)

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 01:27 AM 12/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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????  
>
The Theater of Beautiful Music (the progenitor of the WBOS Music Theater)
was on WMEX for several months immediately before the Richmond Brothers
began operating the station. TBM was NOT on full time but was on for maybe
six hours/day.

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