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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 .
Originally, WLBZ operated its own news department and produced local newscasts from its Bangor studios. For most of its history, it was a solid, if distant, second in Nielsen ratings behind WABI. In 1989, WLBZ began simulcasting some of WCSH's newscasts prepared with a statewide view.
Aug. 6—First-year University of Maine men's hockey coach Ben Barr won't have any trouble remembering the name of the new sports director and anchor at WABI in Bangor. That is because his name is ...
The station was issued its license for digital operation on March 12, 2015. By early September 2019, WBGR-LD commenced digital operations, adding Heroes & Icons and Antenna TV programming to their second digital subchannel. By November of that year, RabbitEars.Info listed six new feeds (LD3 through LD8) for WBGR-LD, those new feeds remaining ...
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
WBFB (97.1 FM, "97-1 The Bear") is a commercial radio station in Bangor, Maine. The station is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting and airs a country music radio format, simulcast on sister stations WBFE in Bar Harbor and WMCM in Rockland. The transmitter is off Maine State Route 9 in Dixmont, Maine, using the same tower as WABI-TV. [2]
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 ...
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.