WMEX 50 KW DA days

[Doug Drown]

A bit of related trivia:  John H. was also known as Johnny Gardner, and did
the mid-morning shift at WPTR in the early- to mid-sixties.

-Doug
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou" <lspin@comcast.net>
To: "'Donna Halper'" <dlh@donnahalper.com>; "'Dale H. Cook'"
<radiotest@cox.net>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: WMEX 50 KW DA days


> I can't count how many times I mistakenly tuned into WPTR, Albany, at
night,
> thinking it was WMEX because it was coming into our North End (Boston)
> apartment so much stronger.
>
> Dale, you really stirred a brain cell when you mentioned John H's "Silence
> is Golden" commercial-free half-hour.  Wow...  I need to sit for a second
or
> two!
>
> -Lou
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf
Of
> Donna Halper
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:45 AM
> To: Dale H. Cook; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WMEX 50 KW DA days
>
>
> My recollection of the WMEX signal from when I was growing up here was
that
> at night you could get it in Northern Maine and in Gander Newfoundland,
but
> you couldn't get it in much of Boston.  The standing joke was that the
> station was #1 in 18-24 year old fish and also very big with 15-54 year
old
> moose...
>
>
>
>