WVOM-FM

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WVOM-FM
Broadcast area Bangor; Central Maine; Downeast Maine
Frequency 103.9 MHz
Branding103.9 WVOM
Programming
Format Talk
Network Fox News Radio
Affiliations Premiere Networks
Ownership
Owner
  • Blueberry Broadcasting
  • (Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC)
History
First air date
June 1993;30 years ago (1993-06) (as WSNV) [1]
Former call signs
  • WPVM (1989–1992)
  • WPRG (1992–1993)
  • WSNV (1993–1997)
  • WVOM (1997–2013)
Call sign meaning
Voice of Maine
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 4092
Class C
ERP 90,000 watts
HAAT 460 meters (1,510 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 45°07′48″N68°21′25″W / 45.130°N 68.357°W / 45.130; -68.357
Repeater(s) 101.3  WVQM (Augusta)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website wvomfm.com

WVOM-FM (103.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Howland, Maine and serving Central and Down East Maine, including Bangor. It airs a talk radio format and is owned by Maine-based Blueberry Broadcasting which is headed by Louis Vitale and Bruce Biette. WVOM-FM is known as "The Voice of Maine News/Talk Network".

Contents

The studios and offices are located on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor. [3] The transmitter, powered at 90,000 watts, is on a mountaintop near Burlington. [4] WVOM-FM is simulcast on WVQM (101.3 FM) in Augusta, which extends the station's programming to the capital region.

Programming

Weekdays

WVOM-FM airs a local morning drive information and talk program co-hosted by George Hale and Ric Tyler. Syndicated conservative talk shows follow, mostly from Premiere Networks. They include The Glenn Beck Radio Program , The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show , The Howie Carr Show , The Sean Hannity Show , Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory . Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.

Weekend

Local shows on weekends include "Hot and Cold with Tom Gocze". It is WVOM's longest running local program and originated in 1989 on then-talk station WZON. It had been co-hosted by Gocze and Dr. Dick Hill, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Maine for over 46 years. A TV show was also seen on Maine Public Broadcasting Network, after being carried for many years on WVII/WFVX-LD. Gocze and Hill also wrote columns for the Bangor Daily News . In 2008 Hill scaled back his time on the program and later retired.

Other weekend programming includes The Kim Komando Show, The Car Doctor with Ron Ananian, Senior Talk, Financial Safari, Maine View, The Maine Outdoors, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell , the weekend version of Coast to Coast AM and the repeats of weekday shows.

History

A construction permit for an FM station in Howland was granted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1989. [5] The permit carried the call sign WPVM, which was changed to WPRG in 1992; neither call sign would be used on the air.

In June 1993, the station signed on as WSNV. [1] It aired an adult contemporary format and was owned by Bay Communications, Inc.

In 1997, the station was acquired by San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (later known as iHeartMedia). [6] Clear Channel switched the format to conservative talk, mostly featuring its own syndicated programs, and using CBS Radio News for world and national coverage.

WVOM and the other 16 Clear Channel stations in Maine were sold in August 2008 to Maine-based Blueberry Broadcasting which is headed by Louis Vitale and Bruce Biette.

Former logo The Voice of Maine logo.png
Former logo

WVOM-FM's programming was previously heard on WVOM (AM 1450) and FM translator W236DO (95.1) in Rockland, serving Midcoast Maine. The license for WVOM AM was surrendered to the FCC and cancelled on July 21, 2022. Translator W236DO’s license was surrendered and cancelled on the same day.[ citation needed ]

Past programming

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References

bostonradio.org Radio history of Maine 1971-1996, also an audio collection and weekly columns.

  1. 1 2 Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 (PDF). 1999. p. D-199. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WVOM-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ WVOMfm.com/contact-us
  4. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WVOM-FM
  5. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1991 page B-147
  6. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2007 page D-244
  7. ↑ Black Bear Radio Agreement To Move Flagship Station And Expand Network
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