WMEX

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WMEX, 1510.

Boston.

President Nixon has authorized additional imports of 100,000 barrels of crude oil.

It's 72 degrees at WMEX Broadcast House.

Al Kennedy with the 6:30 headlines on The Bud Ballou Show.

Why do we have to import crude oil? We got a lot of it in New England.

Okay? Promise.

Hey, Keith, uh, last week, uh, we said goodbye to the home of Arnie Woo Woo Ginsberg, who you hadn't heard of, but, uh, he's an old legend.

Uh, WMEX in Boston signed off the air for good.

Uh, and this week, uh, back channel, I heard, uh, the reason is, uh, between tower rent and power, the cost for those two items alone was 12 grand, and they had about $3,000 a month in billing.

[laughs]

And that's a story we hear all the time with AM stations.

It's really sad.

So RIP to WMEX, but RIP for good reason, you know? Nobody wants to continue to s- fund a deficit like that.

All right, Keith, well, we have done it again.

At 21UT, they were only broadcasting an open carrier.

In medium-wave news about another 1510 station, as we mentioned last week, WMEX Boston, which went off the air forever.

They say, in recent years, WMEX operated at a low-power shadow of its former self, trying to hang on to an audience based around nostalgia.

Earlier in 2026, it switched over to the true oldies channel, but the economics of AM radio were not helping.

At the time, the station was generating less than approximately $3,000 per month in advertising revenue, while the actual cost of keeping it operating was approaching $30,000 per month.

Padres have won 65, lost 87.

This program authorized by station WMEX, the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club, solely for the entertainment of our audience.

And any broadcast, rebroadcast, or other use of the accounts and descriptions of this game without the express written consent of the Red Sox or WMEX is prohibited.

Toronto and Baltimore, no score through two innings.

We're into the fourth here, and here's Smith.

[beep] Finally, a longtime set of call letters has gone silent in Boston.

Oldies 1510 WMEX and its 101.1 FM translator ceased operations September 30th.

The shutdown follows the station's s- sale to Tyler Niehs' Local Media Boston and a brief move from oldies to classic hits.

After returning to oldies, WMEX had been carrying programming from the syndicated True Oldies Channel.

In its farewell message, the station thanked its listeners, personalities, employees, advertisers, and supporters, saying, "While the broadcast may end, those memories remain." The message concluded, "For the final time, this is WMEX signing off." [beep] I do have one more note that is not in today's file, but will be important if you are a SiriusXM subscriber.

If you are interested in wrestling, the Wrestling Channel has moved from channel 156 to channel 93.

We do not know when this change took effect, but we were notified by a wrestling fan who listens to the Wrestling Channel for wrestling events such as WWE and Monday Night Raw.

All right, AJ, uh, all right, what else you got?

He says, we've been cheering this station on as there is no other AM here with a news talk format that is not one of the cloned step forward wives talk stations.

And news about another 1510 station, WMEX in Boston.

According to Lance Smith at Radio Insight, it has closed down.

By the way, despite its call letters, it was not a Mexican station but oldies.

Story via Peter Laws, IRCA, says it signs off for the final time.

We do so with tremendous gratitude for everyone who came along for the ride.

For the final time, this is WMEX signing off.

Correction to an item I read last week about if you plan on shopping for a new or used car in the near future, I want to alert you to my recent car buying experience as it relates to the car radio.

Well, it's not going to get better, and I'm talking because I'm going to talk about it next week.

Twenty different radio stations have gone silent, 21 when you count WMEX in Boston.

I know that stations go off the air, but you very rarely, rarely, and I've seen Jennifer do this stuff, and we've done this for almost 18 years now, Bill.

We've never seen where we've read 20 radio stations that have gone silent.

I don't

know.

Jeff, this week WMEX, next week WINS.

Oh, no, I don't think so.