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WABI's final logo under Diversified ownership; the logo was replaced on WABI's website with the current logo in May 2017, following the sale to Gray, but WABI continued to utilize this logo on-air and in newscasts until December 2017. WABI-TV was the first television station in Maine and the first in northern New England.
City of license / Market Station Years owned Current status Albany, Georgia: WALB 1590 1946–1960 [M]: WALG, owned by First Media Services : Quincy, Illinois: WGEM 1440 : 2021–2023 [G]
The station also carried late afternoon college football games from CBS, as WABI-TV (channel 5) chose to preempt football in order to air a local 6 p.m. newscast. WBGR also aired Boston Red Sox baseball games in 2002, syndicated from WFXT .
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.
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 Lost CBS affiliation upon the sign-on of KFDM-TV. Ceased operations in 1956 due to the ...
CBS is an American broadcast television network owned and operated by Paramount Global, which originated as a radio network in September 1927, and expanded into television in July 1941.
WFRV-TV: 5 ABC NBC Switch was reversed in 1983 WLUK-TV: 11 NBC ABC October 11 ... WABI-TV: 5 NBC (primary) ABC/CBS/NTA Film Network (secondary) CBS (primary)
In 2000, the live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, which had been a mainstay of classical music broadcasting for more than twenty years, was discontinued. Despite Maine Public Broadcasting's claims that the opera was being dropped due to lack of popularity among listeners, a citizens' protest forced the state network ...