WSKW

WSKW

City	Skowhegan, Maine
Branding	Classic Country 1160
Frequency	1160 kHz
First air date	1956
Format	Classic Country
Power	10,000 watts day 730 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	46351
Callsign meaning	SKoWhegan
Owner	Mountain Wireless
Sister stations	WCTB, WFMX
Webcast	Listen Live

WSKW is a U.S. AM radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine carrying a classic country music format.

History

WSKW went on the air March 17, 1956 on AM 1150 with the call letters WGHM. In the 1970s the station changed to a Top 40 format with the WSKW call letters, they would then change the call letters to WQMR in the late 1970s and simulcast co-owned WTOS-FM along with an automated classic country format for several years, eventually changing call letters again to WQMR. In the late 1980s as a country music formatted station, the station reverted to WSKW, changed dial positions to AM 1160 and upgraded their signal to 10,000 watts of power. The station switched to sports talk in the mid-1990s originally carriying One on One Sports but later switched to ESPN Radio carrying Boston Red Sox baseball. For a time the sports format was simulcasted on co-owned WHQO (now WFMX). WSKW also carried New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Portland Sea Dogs baseball, as well as NASCAR from the Motor Racing Network and local sports. In September 2009 the station dropped all sports programming except for local high school sports in favor of an oldies music format, focusing on the 1960s. For several months WSKW was carried on Northern Maine based WXME as The Legacy Radio Network/The Great 78 and Legacy 1160 before WXME reverted to its previous News/Talk format in the summer of 2010. In December 2010 co-owned WCTB flipped to oldies, with WSKW changing to a simulcast of WCTB in January 2011 before reverting to the sports radio format and ESPN Radio it had held previous to September 2009. In November 2011 the sports format was dropped, as well as local sports in favor of an automated classic country format.

Affiliated stations

WFMX "Mix 107.9"
WCTB "93.5 The True Oldies Channel"

External links

Renegade Radio Network, provider for high school hockey on WSKW

Query the FCC's AM station database for WSKW

Radio-Locator Information on WSKW

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WSKW

Radio stations in the Augusta-Waterville, Maine market

By AM frequency	1160 1280 1340 1400 1450 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.5 89.7 90.5 91.3 91.5 92.3 93.3 93.5 93.9 95.3 96.7 97.5 98.5 99.3 100.5 101.3 102.5 102.9 103.3 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.9 107.5 107.9

By callsign	W263AS WABK WARX WBCI WBLM WBQX WCTB WEBB WFMX WFNK WJYE WJZN WKTJ-FM WMCM WMDR WMDR-FM WMEP WMEW WMEY WMHB WMME-FM WQSK WQSS WRFR-LP WSKW WTOS-FM WTQX WTVL WUMF WVOM WVQM WWTP WWWA

Maine radio markets Augusta–Waterville Bangor Portland Other Maine radio regions Northern & Downeast Maine Lewiston–Auburn See also List of radio stations in Maine

Country radio stations in the state of Maine

By frequency:	1160 1280 92.7 95.3 96.9 97.1 98.5 99.1 99.3 99.9 100.7 101.9 103.3 106.5

By callsign:	WBFB WBFE WBPW WBQQ WEBB WJYE WMCM WOXO-FM WPOR WQCB WSKW WTBM WTBU WTHT

By community of license:	Auburn Bangor Bar Harbor Brewer Gardiner Kennebunkport Mexico Norway Portland Presque Isle Rockland Skowhegan Waterville York Center

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Maine

Coordinates: 44°44′43″N 69°41′36″W / 44.74528°N 69.69333°W / 44.74528; -69.69333

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