Atlantic Coast Radio, LLC is a

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company formed by longtime broadcaster J. J. Jeffrey and his partner Bob Fuller. It was incorporated in 1982 and has a staff of approximately twenty. Its studios are located at 779 Warren Ave. in

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. Jeffrey and Fuller had also been partners in Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting. Fuller-Jeffrey's portfolio included

WBLM WBLM (102.9 FM) is a classic rock radio station licensed to Portland, Maine. The station has a studio in One City Center, along with co-owned Townsquare Media stations WJBQ, WCYY and WHOM. The station also serves as the Portland market af ...

and

WOKQ WOKQ (97.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station serves the Merrimack Valley, the New Hampshire Seacoast, and York County, Maine, including the cities of Manchester and Portsmouth. The transmitter is located ...

. The company was sold to

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for $63 million in 1999. Jeffrey died in October 2024.

2008 changes

In August 2008 the company announced some big changes with its stations that would take place in late August 2008 and September 1. The changes were that

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WRED 95.9, ''Red Hot 95.9'', would be eliminated, turning into a WEEI multicast station under the calls WPEI. The Big Jab's FM simulcast on 95.5 FM would turn into a WEEI multicast station as well, under the call letters of WGEI.

WLOB WLOB (1310 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Maine. The station is owned by Atlantic Coast Radio and airs a Talk radio format. The studios and transmitter are on Warren Avenue in Portland. WLOB transmits with 5,000 ...

newsradio's FM simulcast on 96.3 FM would turn into the new FM simulcast of The Big Jab, and

would go strictly AM on 1310 AM. So that

didn't have to be heard in AM sound only,

starting streaming online in September 2008, as Atlantic Coast Radio's first station to stream online. The Big Jab now brands itself under its FM simulcast as "96.3 The Big Jab". The Big Jab started streaming online in the spring of 2009. In April 2009 WGEI 95.5 FM, flipped from a WEEI multicast station to a simulcast of AM sister station

. The station has since changed call letters to WPPI. WLOB is no longer AM only, which it was from September 2008 to March 2009.

Current stations

1310 AM and WPPI 95.5 FM

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* WJJB 96.3 FM, WRED (AM) 1440 AM, translator W223BH 92.5 FM,

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. * WPEI 95.9 FM,

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multicast station.

Former stations (as Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting)

* Seacoast market:

97.5,

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103.7, WXBB 105.3, WXBP 102.1. *

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market: WCYI 93.9,

WCYY WCYY (94.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Biddeford, Maine, and serving the Portland metropolitan area. Its target audience are men between 18 and 44. The station airs an active/alternative rock radio format and is owned by Tow ...

94.3,

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94.9, WJBQ 97.9,

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98.9,

102.9.

References

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