It has been operating a Class D AM with 10kw during daylight hours and 100 watts at night to protect a Nashville station, along with its FM translator licensed to Weymouth, Mass. Now, Local Media Boston is converting its lease arrangement into an outright purchase of the facilities.
WMEX-AM 1510 in Quincy, Mass., and FM translator W266DQ at 101.1 MHz, heard in southern communities with the Boston region, are being acquired by the group led by business partners Tyler Nye and Tony LaGreca.
The seller is L&J Media LLC, and if you’re wondering if LaGreca leads that organization, the answer is yes. That’s because the transaction involves bringing in Nye as a 55% majority interest holder in the stations. Exiting the partnership is Larry Justice.
Assumption of obligations is the focus of this transaction, with a token exchange of $1 noted in the asset purchase agreement.
L&J Media acquired WMEX and still-unbuilt W266DQ from Marshfield Broadcasting in a $390,000 deal announced in July 2021. Marshfield resurrected WMEX in January 2018, paying $125,000 for a facility that had fallen silent on June 30, 2017.
The WMEX legacy is perhaps the richest of the legendary Top 40s on Boston’s AM dial. Until owner Max Richmond’s death in 1971, WMEX held its own against WRKO Radio, with programming talent such as John Garabedian leading the fight. However, transition to FM changed WMEX’s fortunes and Top 40 was dropped in March 1975. From 1976, the station embraced Talk and Sports in various incarnations, and even changed its call letters to WITS-AM.
