WCME
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| WCME | |
| News Talk 96.7 | |
| City of license | Boothbay Harbor, Maine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Lincoln County, Maine |
| Frequency | 96.7 FM |
| Format | talk radio |
| ERP | 15,500 watts |
| Affiliations | Premiere Radio Networks, Black Bear Network Sports |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (sale pending to Blueberry Broadcasting) |
| Website | [1] |
News/Talk 96.7 is broadcast on American radio station WCME-FM, located at 96.7, owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting (sale pending to Blueberry Broadcasting.) The station serves Mid-Coast Maine with studios in Augusta, Maine. The station offers a combination of locally produced news programming and syndicated talk programming.
[edit] Programming
Current programming includes "The Wall Street Journal Morning Report", "The War Room with Quinn and Rose", Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey, Lars Larson, and "Coast to Coast AM". WCME also carries University of Maine football and local sports.
Previously WCME carried the morning show WTOS to fill a void in the mid-coast/Portland area when local jazz station WJZP-LP went on the air. The station also carried Boston Red Sox baseball off and on throughout the early 2000s.
[edit] History
WCME signed on in 1984 as an easy listening station, changing to a simulcast of WXGL 95.5 from Topsham (currently WJJB) in the mid 1990s. In the late 1990s (under ownership of Cumulus Broadcasting it was a coutry formatted station station, simulcasted with WCTB 93.5 in Fairfield. It adopted it's current News/Talk format simulcasting WVOM in Bangor and WHQO in Skowhegan as The Voice of Maine News/Talk Network in 2002, with WHQO (now WFMX) splitting off in 2003 and WCME changing slogans in 2005 after dropping WVOM's morning show and simulcasting WTOS.
[edit] External links
- Radio Locator information on WCME
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WCME
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WCME
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