| City of license | Portland, Maine (WLOB) |
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| Broadcast area | Portland, Maine |
| Branding | News/Talk WLOB |
| Frequency | 1310 kHz |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B (WLOB |
| Facility ID | 9202 (WLOB) |
| Callsign meaning | LOBster |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio USA Radio Network Boston Red Sox University of Maine Black Bears |
| Owner | Atlantic Coast Radio |
| Sister stations | WJJB, WPEI, WPPI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.wlobradio.com |
WLOB (1310 AM) is a news/talk radio station in the Portland, Maine area. The current owner is Atlantic Coast Radio. In the 1960's McGavern/Guild Media NYC owned WLOB AM 1310/FM 98 as Atlantic States Industries Div. Also owning WTSA-Vt., WNVY-Fa., WRYT-Boston.
The station's programming includes Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage Sports programming includes University of Maine Black Bear football and ice hockey,[1] Portland Pirates ice hockey [2] and Boston Red Sox baseball.
A portion of The Ray Richardson Show is simulcast on Portland's MyNetworkTV affiliate, WPME, as of September 2009; until March 2009, the entire program (as The Fox Morning News) was simulcast on Portland's Fox affiliate, WPFO.[3]
The station uses the news services of Fox News Radio and USA Radio Network.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, WLOB was a popular Top 40 music station, competing with WJAB (1440) in nearby Westbrook. By the early 1990s, WLOB had picked up a religious format. In the late 1990s, it added a simulcast on 96.3 FM in Rumford, WLOB-FM. This was the third incarnation of WLOB-FM; previous versions included an AOR-formatted incarnation on 100.9 (now occupied by WYNZ) from 1978 to 1980, and an incarnation on 102.9 (now occupied by WBLM) in the 1960s.
In 2000, WLOB and WLOB-FM were sold to Atlantic Coast Radio by Carter Broadcasting. The stations subsequently dropped their religious programming and picked up the news-talk format heard today. In 2006, WLOB-FM relocated its transmitter from western Maine to South Paris to provide a clearer signal to the Portland area. Following the transmitter move, in 2008 WLOB-FM changed its city of license from Rumford to Gray.
On August 25, 2008, WLOB-FM was converted to a simulcast of WJJB (which WJAE had become by that time); resulting in WLOB's programming being heard only on the AM signal. This was part of a shuffle of Atlantic Coast Radio's FM stations as a result of the conversion of two of its stations, including WJJB-FM, on September 1, 2008 to simulcasts of WEEI.[4] Shortly after the completion of these format changes, 95.5's call letters were changed to WGEI (it had initially planned to use the WTEI call sign[5], and for a week in September 2008 used the WUEI call letters[6]).
On April 1, 2009, WGEI converted to a simulcast of WLOB; it became WLOB-FM a few days later.[6] In August 2001 WLOB-FM once again began airing programming from WEEI leaving the talk programming only on the AM signal.
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