WMEX Updates??

[Deleted User]

It's sad to see so called "experts" who claim to have "inside information" saying mean-spirited things about people when they are too cowardly to stand behind their words by posting under their real names. You can debate the failure of the station or the decisions that were made all you want without the ad hominem, personal attacks.

Can we debate what caused Daly XXL to fail?

Maybe someone has some inside knowledge.... a consultant maybe.

So we have someone with a 1% ownership position, and their consultant, who ... well lets go to the tape...

" Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and feedback on issues pertaining to Programming, Operations, and Sales for a 50,000 watt News/Talk station in Boston (market #10); create strategies for counter programming; write, produce, and record imaging and promotional content to connect with listeners and clients; identify revenue growth opportunities and techniques for prospecting and business development; instrumental in compiling company employee policies; ensure FCC compliance "

I'll let the board draw their own conclusions, but I hope the invoices were paid and the checks cleared, because this was either a bad case of ownership not listening to their consultant ( my vote) or complete and total incompetence.

I'm just an old guy with nothing better to do than second guess the people who are supposed to know something about the industry from the comfort of my recliner. I know nothing about the business. But for the life of me, can't think of an AM that tanked to the point of a STA in a bigger way than WMEX.

Brad Bleidt's fall from grace was probably more public, but at least the station lived on... and 1060 was not 1510.

Daly XXL had 2 years plus to get onto another tower.... instead they flew it all the way to the scene of the crash. I have yet to hear anyone explain how this happened? Forget the programming issues, lets talk tech. What steps, if any, were taken to move the transmitter?

 

[inorm99]

Can we debate what caused Daly XXL to fail?

Maybe someone has some inside knowledge.... a consultant maybe.

So we have someone with a 1% ownership position, and their consultant, who ... well lets go to the tape...

" Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and feedback on issues pertaining to Programming, Operations, and Sales for a 50,000 watt News/Talk station in Boston (market #10); create strategies for counter programming; write, produce, and record imaging and promotional content to connect with listeners and clients; identify revenue growth opportunities and techniques for prospecting and business development; instrumental in compiling company employee policies; ensure FCC compliance "

I'll let the board draw their own conclusions, but I hope the invoices were paid and the checks cleared, because this was either a bad case of ownership not listening to their consultant ( my vote) or complete and total incompetence.

I'm just an old guy with nothing better to do than second guess the people who are supposed to know something about the industry from the comfort of my recliner. I know nothing about the business. But for the life of me, can't think of an AM that tanked to the point of a STA in a bigger way than WMEX.

Brad Bleidt's fall from grace was probably more public, but at least the station lived on... and 1060 was not 1510.

Daly XXL had 2 years plus to get onto another tower.... instead they flew it all the way to the scene of the crash. I have yet to hear anyone explain how this happened? Forget the programming issues, lets talk tech. What steps, if any, were taken to move the transmitter?

Any news of what's next for 1510 AM?

 

[raccoonradio]

None. There has been no news about someone buying the station, or DalyXXL continuing, and getting a tower site. Whether or not they apply to the FCC for a six month STA extension in another couple months or not, the FCC has the right to delete 1510 kHz as a frequency in Boston right around July 1 of next year, just as 750 in Portmouth NH got deleted some time after WHEB (AM) turned off.

Anyone who fires up the station again, from wherever, will have a challenged signal as before (out to the fishies) but hey they could try doing brokered time, oldies, political talk, whatever. There was a reason why Daly got them so cheap. How much money did they make vs how much the electric bills/tower rent ran them? Were some of their sponsors trades? Hey the Tides restaurant in Nahant probably gave the staff some dinners. They did run some local and national shows but WRKO, etc had nothing to worry about.

Again someone could run a station similar to other AMs in town and make a small profit (good luck) but there has been no word of filing for a transmitter site move, or a renewal of the old one. 680 and 1030 are up for sale and they have a much better chance of surviving. To survive first they must get back on the air.

 

[Former]

None. There has been no news about someone buying the station, or DalyXXL continuing, and getting a tower site. Whether or not they apply to the FCC for a six month STA extension in another couple months or not, the FCC has the right to delete 1510 kHz as a frequency in Boston right around July 1 of next year, just as 750 in Portmouth NH got deleted some time after WHEB (AM) turned off.

Anyone who fires up the station again, from wherever, will have a challenged signal as before (out to the fishies) but hey they could try doing brokered time, oldies, political talk, whatever. There was a reason why Daly got them so cheap. How much money did they make vs how much the electric bills/tower rent ran them? Were some of their sponsors trades? Hey the Tides restaurant in Nahant probably gave the staff some dinners. They did run some local and national shows but WRKO, etc had nothing to worry about.

Again someone could run a station similar to other AMs in town and make a small profit (good luck) but there has been no word of filing for a transmitter site move, or a renewal of the old one. 680 and 1030 are up for sale and they have a much better chance of surviving. To survive first they must get back on the air.

From an insider, stupidity and arrogance killed the station. There was no real management. The place was a zoo and as dysfunctional as to deserve their own reality show. Daly XXL will not be back. The sop of an owner refuses to spend any more money.

 

[Tired Of It All]

From an insider, stupidity and arrogance killed the station. There was no real management. The place was a zoo and as dysfunctional as to deserve their own reality show. Daly XXL will not be back. The sop of an owner refuses to spend any more money.

Anyone know what Sandy Shack is doing?? On her last day back in June she indicated she had several options. Her FB page and twitter page are still basically inactive.

 

[Methuselah]

Anyone know what Sandy Shack is doing?? On her last day back in June she indicated she had several options. Her FB page and twitter page are still basically inactive.

Her option appeared to be unemployment.

 

[john garrett]

It's sad to see so called "experts" who claim to have "inside information" saying mean-spirited things about people when they are too cowardly to stand behind their words by posting under their real names. You can debate the failure of the station or the decisions that were made all you want without the ad hominem, personal attacks.

And you are referring to who?

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

Anyone who fires up the station again, from wherever, will have a challenged signal as before (out to the fishies)
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Again someone could run a station similar to other AMs in town and make a small profit (good luck) but there has been no word of filing for a transmitter site move, or a renewal of the old one.

What about like what WJDA did after Hurricane Irene, back in August 2011: Use a (greatly) reduced power longwire antenna based transmitter from some location—temporarily, of course , until they find a permanent arrangement?

 

[DavidEduardo]

What about like what WJDA did after Hurricane Irene, back in August 2011: Use a (greatly) reduced power longwire antenna based transmitter from some location—temporarily, of course , until they find a permanent arrangement?

WMEX has some pretty severe protection requirements, so the power they could put into a longwire would be the equivalent of that going into the deepest null. That would certainly not cover much of the market at that horrible 1510 frequency.

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

WMEX has some pretty severe protection requirements, so the power they could put into a longwire would be the equivalent of that going into the deepest null. That would certainly not cover much of the market at that horrible 1510 frequency.

Yeah, but 'JDA was only using its nightime 72W, rather than its daytime 1kW, too—just enough to get something out locally.
Look at WNTN: That ainʼt no bargain, either (yeah, I know, they just applied for an increase).

 

[gr8oldies]

Sometimes it's just over, no matter how much some may want to save every AM license.

 

[Tired Of It All]

Her option appeared to be unemployment.

Yeah, it looks that way....it's unfortunate because she's a good broadcaster....I know she is helping Joe Shortsleeve with his campaign for Senate but I was hoping she would show up somewhere on the dial long before now. Maybe now with all the switching around of radio stations going on, perhaps RKO will get rid of that noon to three clown and put her in his place!

 

[Deleted User]

....I know she is helping Joe Shortsleeve with his campaign for Senate

That gig ended last week some time, Joe came in 3rd with NINE PERCENT of the vote.

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20171017/democrat-paul-feeney-wins-state-senate-election

 

[JIBGUY]

1510 is still for sale at "the reduced price of $450,000." (They bought it for $150,000).

 

[Methuselah]

We could all pitch in $100 and buy it for a grand.

 

[Deleted User]

We could all pitch in $100 and buy it for a grand.

and we would still be over paying for it.

the only value it has would be for a co-channel or first adjacent to buy the license to take it dark or downgrade the signal so they could upgrade an existing station

By the time you did the due diligence and closed you could not get it back on the air long enough to reset the STA.

Not to disparage DalyXXL, but I would not hand them a check as part of a LMA pending sale and scamper to get on the air long enough to do a legal ID from someplace the Feds would let you do it from.

Has anyone ever brought an AM station without a transmitter site or functioning anything on the air in under 8 months legally?

I'm sure whats his name Dodge did it, but the key word is legally.

 

[Wimmmex]

1510 is still for sale at "the reduced price of $450,000." (They bought it for $150,000).

When I saw the listing originally, I was told "there is an offer on the table at just under 1 million". I guess that was a lie. ;-)

The Daly XXL folks who ran 1510AM....did such a horrid (and irresponsible) job of operating it, I hope they don't make 1 single penny on the deal.

I am guessing that they already lost all the money spend on operating expenses during their tenure.

 

[Methuselah]

are the two morning nitwits still using the studio to produce their morning internet show?

 

[raccoonradio]

Don't know if they are still renting that studio but they still do podcasts.On the Renegade Radio page of the WMEX site they have one up for today, etc. A WHOIS search for the 1510wmex.com site has a privacy restriction on registrant name but it is in effect through Oct of next year.

 

[Voicetrack of Reason]

As for finding a site for WMEX, are there any decommissioned former AM sites around Boston? I seem to recall one, on a dead end street somewhere in the 'burbs, but can't recall what station it was. 1570 Beverly, perhaps?