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WABI-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Gray Media , the station has studios on Hildreth Street in West Bangor, and its transmitter is atop Peaked Mountain in Dixmont .
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Bangor: 2 2 WLBZ: NBC: True Crime Network on 2.2, Ion on 2.3 : 5 13 WABI-TV: CBS: CW on 5.2, Catchy Comedy on 5.3, Circle on 5.4 : 7
Bangor, Maine: WTWO-TV/WLBZ-TV 2 (now WLBZ) 1955-1959 NBC WABI-TV 5 (previously with CBS (secondary) from 1953-1955) Swapped affiliations with NBC affiliate WABI-TV due to WLBZ-TV's association with WCSH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas: KBMT 31 (now on channel 12) 1954-1955 ABC KFDM 6
Diversified was founded in 1949 when Horace A. Hildreth, the former governor of Maine, president of Bucknell University and U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, purchased Community Broadcasting Service, owner of Maine's oldest radio station, WABI in Bangor. In 1953, he launched Maine's first TV station, WABI-TV in Bangor.
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[35] [36] On February 16, 2017, Gray announced that it would acquire WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine, and WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida, from Diversified Communications for $85 million. [37] On May 4, 2017, Gray announced its intent to acquire WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont, from Mount Mansfield Television for $29 million. [38] [39]
WABI-TV, Bangor's CBS affiliate was the long-time television home for Black Bear sports, including most home football games and men's and women's basketball games (also carried on Portland CW affiliate WPXT); WABI's relationship with UMaine, which dated to the station's founding in 1953 (outside of a period from 1989 through 1997 in which rival ...
Bangor, Maine: WABI-TV 5: 1953–1959 CBS WLBZ 2 Swapped affiliations with CBS affiliate WLBZ-TV due to WLBZ-TV's association with WCSH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland. (WABI-TV had aired CBS programming as a secondary affiliation until WLBZ-TV signed on as WTWO-TV in 1955.) Baton Rouge, Louisiana: WAFB-TV 9 (now WAFB) 1953–1955 (secondary ...