'WMVY' Edgartown, Cape Cod, returns to the air, as WMEX

[Paul Currier]

WMEX (MVY Radio) is coming in loud and clear on my CCRadio2 here in Sandwich on "Pilgrim Hill" on this damp evening.   
Paul
Sandwich
 
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:47:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: 'WMVY' Edgartown, Cape Cod, returns to the air, as WMEX
> From: scott@fybush.com
> To: 011010001@interpring.com
> CC: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> 
> It was. But in order to keep its unique format alive,  the owner of the
> 92.7 license essentially split in in two: the license was sold to BU, which
> now operates it noncommercially. The intellectual property and studio was
> sold to a new nonprofit,  Friends of MVY Radio, which raised a lot of money
> to buy the intellectual property and run the webstream, and then raised
> more money to buy the 88.7 license from Dennis.
> 
> I think,  but do not recall for certain,  that the nonprofit Friends group
> may have been operating 92.7 under an LMA from the licensee in its last
> months.
> On May 22, 2014 9:07 AM, "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 22 May 2014, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> >
> >  The nonprofit that was programming WMVY (92.7) before it was sold, and
> >> are running mvyradio.com now, is buying WMEX (88.7) so that they'll have
> >> an actual on-air voice again,
> >>
> >
> > Wasn't WMVY 92.7 a commercial, for-profit station?
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >