1150 and 1600 old days

[A Joseph Ross]

On the other hand, in Bedford, where I spent my teen years, WCOP was the 
most popular station.  With the transmitter in Lexington, it was the 
strongest signal in town, even stronger than WBZ.  We all listened to it 
until it very suddenly shifted to a MOR format during the summer of 
1962.  That was when I first started listening to WMEX a lot.  Their 
daytime signal came in quite well, but at night, they had problems with 
WKBW at 1520.


On 7/10/2018 2:04 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> WCOP's big problem with top 40 was that you couldn't hear them at the beaches on the north shore. I listened to WCOP at home in the city, but when we got a summer cottage at Hampton Beach, you could get WMEX clearly, but WCOP was non-existent even in the daytime.
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> I think Ken Mayer did well because those were the days when all the stations except WHDH signed off at midnight on Sunday/Monday. WHDH stayed on with Norm Nathan's jazz show. Ken had soooo many commercials, all of which he read himself. But he played a lot of comedy albums too, which made the show interesting.
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> --But even 1600 had Ken Mayer who had a substantial cult following between Midnight and 2 AM every Monday. WCOP had a slight run with Top 40 but their -night signal was worse than WMEX. Ken Carter hosted a very successful dance show on Saturday's in Cambridge but otherwise not much except national NBC sports events like the World Series.
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