WKIT (100.3 FM) is a

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Brewer, Maine Brewer is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Bangor, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is named after its first settler, Colonel John Brewer. The population was 9,672 at the 2020 census. Brewer ...

, serving the Bangor area of Central Maine. It airs a

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, calling itself "The Rock of Bangor." WKIT is part of the Zone Corporation, a Central Maine broadcasting group owned by authors Tabitha and

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. It has

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s and offices on Target Industrial Drive in Bangor. The

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is off Center Drive in Orrington.Radio-Locator.com/WKIT
/ref> WKIT is one of the few radio stations that still has a strong presence of live local announcers in the studio. However, on the weekends the station carries some syndicated programming. WKIT also streams its programming on the Internet via the official station website. Notable on air personalities include the "Rock and Roll Morning Show" hosts Bobby Russell and Mark "The Shark" Young, midday host Don Cookson, afternoon host Scotty Moore and Simulcasting "Nights With Alice Cooper". On Stephen King's official website, there is an advertisement for WKIT. In King's novel ''

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'', Jake saves most of the Dunning family and when he comes back to 2011 he looks up Ellen Dunning (who was 7 in 1958) and calls her, finding she's a "jock for WKIT in Bangor, you know, a

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?". WKIT's main competitors are

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95.7

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in Ellsworth and Mainstream Rock

WTOS-FM WTOS-FM (105.1 MHz), known as "The Mountain of Pure Rock", is a commercial mainstream rock radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine whose studios are located in Augusta. History WTOS-FM originated as a free-form rock music station in 1973 star ...

Skowhegan, which is

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and

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105.3 in Bangor.

References

External links

WKIT official website
* KIT Mass media in Penobscot County, Maine Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1979 1979 establishments in Maine Brewer, Maine Stephen King {{Maine-radio-station-stub