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WXME
WXME (780 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station located in Monticello, Maine, United States serving the Aroostook County, Maine, Northern Maine market and broadcasts a news/talk and rock music format. The station is owned and operated by Allan Weiner, who also owns the shortwave station WBCQ (SW), WBCQ. WXME's broadcast facilities are co-located with WBCQ shortwave and WBCQ-FM 94.7. History WXME was formerly known as WCXH 780, WREM 710, and WOZW 710. WREM broadcast a variety of formats ranging from classic rock and alternative rock to talk radio and religious programming. For a number of years, WREM simulcasted talk radio from WEGP. In the summer of 2007, the station moved to 780 kilohertz, kHz, increased power to 5,000 watts daytime non-directional and 60 watts nighttime non-directional, and changed its call sign to WCXH, simulcasting Channel X Radio from Caribou, Maine. By 2008, WCXH had dropped the Channel X Radio simulcast; on September 10, 2008, the station changed its c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSKW
WSKW (1160 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial amplitude modulation, AM radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine. It is owned by Mountain Wireless and it carries a radio format of sports radio, sports from CBS Sports Radio. The radio studio, studios and offices are in the Lee Farm Mall in Augusta, Maine, Augusta. WSKW broadcasts with 10,000 watts by day and uses a omnidirectional antenna, non-directional antenna at all times. But because AM 1160 is a clear channel station, clear channel frequency reserved for List of North American broadcast station classes, Class A KSL (AM), KSL Salt Lake City, WSKW must reduce power at night to 730 watts to avoid interference. The transmitter is off Middle Road (Route 104) in Skowhegan. History WSKW sign-on, signed on the air on March 17, 1956. It originally broadcast on AM 1150 using the call sign WGHM. The station was powered at 1,000 watts and was a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset each evening. It was owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBCQ-FM
WBCQ-FM (94.7 FM broadcasting, FM) is a Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Monticello, Maine, United States. The station is currently Broadcasting a locally originated Classic Country format with News and Weather at the top of the hour. WBCQ-FM resumed full-time as of October 7, 2013. WBCQ-FM is owned by Barbara Weiner and Allan Weiner, who also owns the shortwave station WBCQ (SW), WBCQ and AM station WXME. For 5 years, County Communications, Inc. (and later Northern Maine Media) the owner of radio station WHOU-FM, operated WBCQ-FM under a local marketing agreement. That relationship ended April 2, 2013 References External links * Radio stations in Maine, BCQ-FM Mass media in Aroostook County, Maine Classic country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2008 {{Maine-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBCQ (SW)
WBCQ is a shortwave radio station operating at Monticello, Maine, United States. The station is owned and operated by Allan Weiner,Ciment, James (2015). Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia'. Routledge. Retrieved June 27, 2019. who also owns and operates WXME AM 780 kHz and WBCQ-FM 94.7 MHz at the shortwave site. WBCQ began operation on September 8, 1998, on 7.415 MHz.Brown, Dan.WBCQ. The Planet., ''Monitoring Times''. Vol. 27, No. 9. September 2008. p. 10-13. Retrieved June 27, 2019. The station transmits talk shows and other programs produced by commercial networks as well as former pirate radio broadcasters, including Weiner himself. Rotatable antenna and 500kW transmitter In 2018, WBCQ applied for a transmitter license associated with a rotatable antenna, later revealed to be a 500 kW transmitter for aAmpegonrotatable curtain antenna on a single mast. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEGP
WEGP (1390 AM) is a radio station in Presque Isle, Maine. The station airs a Catholic talk format as an affiliate of Relevant Radio, and is owned by Relevant Radio, Inc. WEGP's transmitter is off Chapman Road in Presque Isle. It is the most powerful AM station in Northern Maine, broadcasting at 25,000 watts by day, using a non-directional antenna. But at night, to protect other stations on AM 1390, WEGP drops its power to 10,000 watts and uses a directional antenna. History WEGP signed on the air on June 24, 1960. It was started by Edward G. Perrier. WEGP gets its name from its founder's initials. At the time, Perrier was the owner-publisher of the Presque Isle ''Star-Herald''. mistakenly taken for the Engineer for WAGM-TV (channel 8). When Perrier decided to start WEGP, WAGM-TV was looking for a way to carry its signal into the Houlton area. In an effort to assist WAGM-TV in broadening its signal range, Perrier searched for a site and found an old horse pasture in Presque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monticello, Maine
Monticello is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States on the northern branch of the Meduxnekeag River. The population was 737 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Originally known as Wellington Township, it was settled in 1830 by General Joel Wellington, who owned it, and incorporated in 1846. Some of the earlier migrant workers of Monticello were called the “Amerisee”—a currently disbanded tribe whose members consisted of tribal people from all five Wabanaki Maine tribes, who traveled together as migrant seasonal workers. Many of them had settled in the Monticello and other Aroostook County areas. The word “Amerisee” comes from the Mi’kmaq word “Amase’jijg” which means “some distance” or “quite far” in reference to the distance they traveled for work, which often included all areas of Canada and Aroostook County Maine. The Matthew(s) family shows up in the 1900 Census for Monticello Maine. They had intended to form a sixth tribe—one th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media In Aroostook County, Maine
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Translator
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station. It expands the broadcast range of a television or radio station beyond the primary signal's original coverage or improves service in the original coverage area. The stations may be (but are not usually) used to create a single-frequency network. They may also be used by an AM or FM radio station to establish a presence on the other band. Relay stations are most commonly established and operated by the same organisations responsible for the originating stations they repeat. However, depending on technical and regulatory restrictions, relays may also be set up by unrelated organisations. Types Broadcast translators In its simplest form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it is a major driver to the format. It is considered the successor to the oldies format, a collection of top 40 songs from the late 1950s through the late 1970s that was once extremely popular in the United States and Canada. The term is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for the adult hits format, which uses a slightly newer music library stretching from all decades to the present with a major focus on 1990s and 2000s pop, rock and alternative songs. In addition, adult hits stations tend to have larger playlists, playing a given song only a few times per week, compared to the tighter libraries on classic hits stations. For example, KRTH, a classic hits station in Los Angeles, and KLUV, a classic hits statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. After 2000, 1970s music was increasingly included. "Classic hits" has been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core format. Description This broad category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues, and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
