WHCF (88.5

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) is a

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broadcasting a

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music. WHCF has studios on Outer Broadway in Bangor and is owned by Lighthouse Radio Network, Inc. WHCF's

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is 105.7

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to Bangor, WHCF serves Northern Maine and Downeast Maine. WHCF is a Class C station. It has an

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(ERP) of 35,000

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s. Its

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is about northeast of Bangor, in

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s around Northern Maine.

Programming

In morning and afternoon

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, WHCF airs

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music with local DJs. In middays, evenings and early mornings, the station airs

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shows. National religious leaders heard on WHCF include Jim Daly,

James Dobson James Clayton Dobson Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelicalism, evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. In the 1980s, he was ranked as one of the m ...

Chuck Swindoll Charles Rozell Swindoll (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, which airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2 ...

June Hunt June Hunt (born Ruth June Hunt, December 31, 1944) is the founder and CSO (Chief Servant Officer) of ''Hope for the Heart'', a US-based nonprofit Christian ministry which she founded in 1986. Hunt is the author of the ''Biblical Counseling Lib ...

David Jeremiah David Jeremiah (born February 13, 1941) is an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, Ca ...

Greg Laurie Greg Laurie (born December 10, 1952) is an American evangelical pastor, evangelist, and Christian author who serves as the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, based in Riverside, California. He also is the founder of Harvest Crusa ...

Alistair Begg Alistair Begg (born May 22, 1952) is an American pastor of Scottish birth. He is the senior pastor of Cleveland's Parkside Church (located in Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, Ohio), a position he has held since 1983. He is the voice behind ...

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth (born September 3, 1958), also known as Nancy Leigh DeMoss, is a prominent Bible teacher, public speaker and founder of ''Revive Our Hearts'' ministry for women. In 2015, DeMoss married best-selling author and a former presid ...

, John MacArthur and

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History

WHCF

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the air on August 10, 1981. WHCF was the first full-time

station in Maine. The station originally played a mix of southern gospel and inspirational music, mixed with 30-minute talk and teaching programs. In June 1989, the management of WHCF was able to add a

broadcasts at 105.7 MHz and specializes in a more youthful

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sound.

Translators

WHCF is heard on several

References

External links

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