WTUX (101.1 FM) is an American

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radio station licensed to Gouldsboro, Maine, United States. The station is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC and simulcasts co-owned

WTOS-FM WTOS-FM (105.1 MHz), known as "105 & 101 TOS", is a commercial mainstream rock radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine, whose studios are located in Augusta. Transmitting from Sugarloaf Mountain, the signal covers a large swath of rural Main ...

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on May 25,

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. The new station was assigned the WLEK

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by the FCC on April 30, 2009. In April 2008, permit holder Louis Vitali filed an application with the FCC to transfer the permit to a company he controlled, Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC. The transfer was approved by the FCC on April 30, 2008, and the transaction was consummated on June 4, 2008. On January 7, 2009, WLEK applied to change its

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to Gouldsboro, Maine. , the FCC has accepted this application for filing but has taken no further action on the request. WLEK received its license to cover with Machias as its community of license from the FCC on May 13, 2009. WLEK changed its call letters to WTUX on May 20, 2010, and in June 2010 signed on the air, simulcasting Augusta-based

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* * TUX Radio stations established in 2010 2010 establishments in Maine Album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States Mass media in Hancock County, Maine Blueberry Broadcasting radio stations {{Maine-radio-station-stub