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WGUY (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to Veazie, Maine, United States. It is owned by Port Broadcasting, LLC, and operated by Mix Maine Media as a simulcast of
WCTB WCTB is an FM Broadcasting, FM radio broadcast station licensed to Fairfield, Maine, United States, with studios in Skowhegan, Maine, Skowhegan. It broadcasts on 93.5 MHz with a classic country format, and is owned by J. Hanson Company. Its ...
, its classic country station in Fairfield.


History

The station signed on in November 2011 as a simulcast of co-owned WNZS. In May 2012 WGUY broke away from the WNZS simulcast, and began simulcasting on 94.1 FM and broadcasting an
oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2 ...
format. WGUY was one of the flagship stations of the Black Bear Sports Network, carrying
University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine, United States. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universitie ...
basketball, baseball, and softball. In the event of a conflict between the
Maine Black Bears The Maine Black Bears are the athletic teams that represent the University of Maine. A member of the America East Conference, the University of Maine sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The men's and women's Col ...
' men's and women's basketball teams, the women's game was relocated to co-owned WBAN (formerly WNZS) or WCYR. On December 30, 2015, WGUY changed its format from oldies to a simulcast of
soft adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...
-formatted WRMO (93.7 FM). On December 1, 2016, with the station being sold to Port Broadcasting, WGUY and W231CH broke the simulcast of WRMO. WGUY reverted to its oldies format and W231CH began simulcasting WBAN, which inherited the soft AC format. WRMO switched to the Maine Public Classical network. In November 2024, Mix Maine Media began operating WGUY and WBAN under a five-year time brokerage agreement with Port Broadcasting, with an option to buy the stations for $225,000. Mix Maine Media replaced WGUY's "The Legends" oldies format with a simulcast of the classic country programming of
WCTB WCTB is an FM Broadcasting, FM radio broadcast station licensed to Fairfield, Maine, United States, with studios in Skowhegan, Maine, Skowhegan. It broadcasts on 93.5 MHz with a classic country format, and is owned by J. Hanson Company. Its ...
in Fairfield.


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* * Classic country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2011 2011 establishments in Maine Mass media in Penobscot County, Maine GUY {{Maine-radio-station-stub