Nat Hentoff and WMEX (Was Re: WLOE)

[mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Donna Halper wrote:
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>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????

        In the 1940s, WMEX's programming included some jazz, apparently.
The writer Nat Hentoff once mentioned in a Wall Street Journal arts page
article about music that when he was a college student he worked on the air
there doing a jazz show. He described the place more-or-less as a
second-tier station where the first thing you'd think of if you heard it go
off was that Boston Edison had disconnected for nonpayment <g>. There might
be more in his memoirs book, but I've never looked at it.

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