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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.
Together with WLBZ (channel 2) in Bangor, which simulcasts most of WCSH's local newscasts, it is known as News Center Maine. WCSH is the oldest operating television station in Portland, signing on in December 1953.
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
WVII-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with ABC. The station is owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate WFVX-LD (channel 22).
Cindy Williams career began out of college at the NBC affiliate in Laurel and Hattiesburg, Mississippi of WDAM-TV in the mid to late 1980's. In 1989, Williams became a news anchor for WCSH 6 News Center Maine in Portland, Maine. During her early days with the news network she would anchor the noon broadcasts and the Morning Report which at the ...
WNEV also began a network of regional news bureaus known as the New England News Exchange, in which WNEV consulted with other stations (such as WCSH-TV in Portland, WLBZ-TV in Bangor, WFSB in Hartford, WLNE-TV in Providence and WMUR-TV in Manchester) and print media throughout the region to create a high-powered electronic news gathering ...
A television sister station was added in 1958, when the Rines' Maine Broadcasting Company acquired WTWO (channel 2) [15] and renamed it WLBZ-TV. [16] By 1973, WLBZ had a middle-of-the-road music format; [17] on September 1, 1975, this gave way to an all-news format via NBC's News and Information Service (NIS).
As a result, WLBZ's production involvement in the newscast was dropped and refocused to Portland. After a six-year run, the production was eventually canceled altogether. On October 31, 2011, WPXT and WCSH established another news share agreement and debuted an hour-long extension of the big three outlet's weekday morning show.