Re: More on WPTR

[dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net]

I think the old "new WMEX" that Joe Ross is talking 
about is the 1957 (or so) incarnation with top 40 all 
day, Arnie in the evening, Jerry in late night, and 
Larry overnight. I suspect that the reason 1060 bears 
the WMEX calls is that Jerry probably has a financial 
stake in it, and he has said several times on the air 
that the worst thing that ever happened to 1510 was the 
change in calls from WMEX to WITS. He decidedly did not 
like they guy who had bought the station and changed the 
calls (Joe Scallon?)

In fact, I also thought that the WITS calls were clever. 
In my opinion, the worst thing that ever happened to the 
station was the incredibly lame and awful music 
selection when it was adult-standards WMRE. The music 
was so bad that Norm Nathan and Bill Marlowe together 
couldn't save the station. My nomination for runner up 
worst thing is collectively, everything that Communicom 
tried, from brokered religion to brokered talk. Around 
the middle of my list (roughly half way between best and 
worst) is the eight months or so when the station was 
silent. I could get WWKB and WTOP without difficulty, 
but they weren't so hot at the time either.

> Which version of WMEX is the old new one? (Lessee... there's the classic
> 1510 with Arnie Ginsburg, et al, 1150 with oldies, business, AC and
> brokered, 1060 with whatever is on there, which NERW calls "All New All New
> WMEX," if that really is WMEX now... plus WMEX stays in NY and PA... and
> maybe I missed one browsing the NERW archives.)
> 
> Gee, how come I don't hear great nostalgia for WITS? (I only heard the
> station once, but I loved the call sign.)