Re: WMEX starts Monday

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Does anyone know what WMEX's lineup looks like _before_ 
10:00 AM? 650 has been running Jim Paleologas (from Talk 
America) from 6:00 to 7:00, Frankie Boyer's locally 
produced herbal-remedies-for-everything show from 7:00 
to 9:00, and Dr Derek DaSilva with another herbal-remedy 
show from 9:00 to 10:00. (I think this one's also from 
Talk America.) I can't imagine a weaker early AM lineup. 
Wouldn't it be something if they could get Jess Cain to 
come out of retirement!

Al Langer has been quoted as saying that the WMEX lineup 
would be 100% local. If we are to believe him, the two 
Talk America shows will be out. Meanwhile, the 9:00 to 
11:00 financial talk show that originates from WBNW has 
announced that they will be adding a station next week, 
but they won't say which station. The financial show 
already airs on eight stations from Newport RI to Dover 
NH and as far west as WCRN. I suppose that the show may 
finally be getting onto a good Boston signal--WCRN's 
sister, WROL. However, had you not indicated that 
Clapprood would be doing 10:00 to 12:00 on WMEX, 1060 
would be another possibility, but then, so would WNTN.

> Today's Boston Herald has an article by Dean Johnson
> saying that the new "NewsTalk 1060", WMEX, will debut
> next Monday. They will only be a daytimer (at least
> for now?) with ex- WRKO talk hosts Marge Clapprood
> weekdays from 10 till noon, Jerry Williams
> from noon to 2 pm and Gene Burns from 2 to 4 pm.
> Upton Bell follows from 4 pm to signoff.