WTME

WTME
City Rumford, Maine
Broadcast area Portland, Maine
Branding 780 WTME
Slogan Talk for ME
Maine's Family Program Station
Frequency 780 kHz
First air date August 21, 1953 (1953-08-21)[1]
Format Christian/Talk
Power 1,000 watts (day)
18 watts (night)
Class D
Facility ID 9209
Transmitter coordinates 44°30′53″N 70°31′01″W / 44.51472°N 70.51694°W / 44.51472; -70.51694
Former callsigns WRUM (1953–1997)
WLLB (1997–2001)[2]
Affiliations Portland Pirates ice hockey, Portland Sea Dogs baseball
Owner Gleason Radio Group
(Mountain Valley Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations WEZR, WEZR-FM, WOXO, WOXO-FM
Website wtme.com

WTME (780 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Rumford, Maine. The station is owned by Gleason Radio Group and licensed to Mountain Valley Broadcasting, Inc. The station airs a Christian radio format, as well as talk shows, Portland Pirates hockey, and Portland Sea Dogs baseball.[3]

The station was assigned the WTME call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 11, 2001.[2]

WTME's programming was previously simulcast with WCNM (1240 AM) in Lewiston and WKTQ (1450 AM) in South Paris.[4] WCNM switched to CNN Headline News in July 2001[5] and is now hot adult contemporary station WEZR, while WKTQ became country music station WOXO in August 2016.[6]

References

  1. Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 (PDF). 1999. p. D-201. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. Fybush, Scott (February 5, 2001). "River Flows to New Home". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
  5. Fybush, Scott (July 16, 2001). "CTV Adds Montreal to O&O Roster". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
  6. Venta, Lance (July 29, 2016). "WEZR & WOXO Lewiston On The Move". RadioInsight. Retrieved August 27, 2016.


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