WVQM (101.3 FM) is a

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, United States. It

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s a

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with 103.9

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in Bangor. The stations are owned by Blueberry Broadcasting. The

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s and offices are on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor with additional studios at Community Drive in Augusta. WVQM has an

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(ERP) of 41,000

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s. The

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is on Winthrop Street in

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Programming

Weekdays on WVQM and WVOM-FM begin with a local news and information show hosted by George Hale and Ric Tyler. The rest of the weekday schedule is from

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shows:

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, ''

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'',

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, ''Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis'' and ''

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with

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''. Weekends feature shows on health, money, technology, the outdoors, food, real estate, cars, senior citizens and repeats of weekday shows. Weekend hosts include

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, '' Somewhere in Time with Art Bell'' and ''The Car Doctor with Ron Ananian''. WVQM and WVOM carry

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Black Bears Football. Most hours begin with world and national news from

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History

In July 1961, the station

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as WFAU-FM, the FM counterpart to WFAU 1340 AM (now WMDR). It largely

the AM's programming. On July 5, 1982, the station changed its

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to WKCG. WKCG played

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until March 1, 1999, when the station adopted the

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format vacated by then sister station

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 ...

On January 5, 2009, the station dropped the ''Star 101'' imaging and the adult contemporary format for a simulcast of

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station

WVOM WVOM-FM (103.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Howland, Maine, and serving Central and Downeast Maine, including Bangor. It airs a talk radio format and is owned by Maine-based Blueberry Broadcasting which is headed by Lou ...

WCME WCME (900 kHz; "Radio Midcoast") is a commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station City of licence, licensed to Brunswick, Maine, and serving Maine's Mid Coast; on-air, the station is currently known as "Radio Midcoast WCME 99-5 FM & 900 AM". E ...

picked up the adult contemporary format and the ''Star'' imaging before switching several months later to a simulcast of

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 ...

. In February 2009, WKCG switched call signs to WVQM, similar to its simulcast partner WVOM.

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VQM Mass media in Kennebec County, Maine News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1961 Companies based in Augusta, Maine Blueberry Broadcasting radio stations 1961 establishments in Maine {{Maine-radio-station-stub