Al Kennedy

[SteveOrdinetz]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>wrote:

> WMEX was owned and managed by people who pinched pennies until Lincoln
> howled in pain. The station had antiquated equipment and generally
> lousy facilities (and this time, I am not referring just to the
> signal, although that was terrible until the daytime power increase of
> 1972).


Not sure of the exact chronology of WMEX's power increase, but ISTR mentions
of being 50,000W as early as 1969.  I have several music surveys from 1971
that refer to the station as a "50,000 W Hitmaker".