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WABI-TV. WABI-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Gray Television, the station has studios on Hildreth Street in West Bangor, and its transmitter is atop Peaked Mountain in Dixmont. Prior to 2017, WABI-TV was the flagship station of its founding owner Diversified ...
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
Diversified was formed 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, 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 ...
Our editors do a fair share of online vintage shopping, and we've seen sea-salted bags from the 1970s and 80s selling for as much as $600, which—again, in Maine math—equates to roughly 30 ...
It is the only television station in Bangor to have never switched its network affiliation. Downeast sold WEMT to Eastern Maine Broadcasting Systems (a subsidiary of Valley Communications, owner of WPNO in Auburn and WSKW and WTOS-FM in Skowhegan) on February 2, 1976. [4] [5] The new owners changed the station's call letters to WVII-TV that ...
Two of the Republicans who defied Trump — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — are still in the Senate. The third, then-Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), died in 2018.
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]