WCME

Infobox Radio station
name = WCME


city = Boothbay Harbor, Maine
area = Lincoln County, Maine
branding =
slogan =
airdate =
frequency = 96.7 FM
format = talk radio
erp = 15,500 watts
haat =
class =
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Blueberry Broadcasting
webcast =
website = [http://www.newstalk967.com]
affiliations = Premiere Radio Networks, Black Bear Network Sports

News/Talk 96.7 is broadcast on American radio station WCME-FM, located at 96.7, owned by Blueberry Broadcasting. The station serves Mid-Coast Maine with studios in Augusta, Maine. The station offers a combination of locally produced news programming and syndicated talk programming.

Programming

Current programming includes "The Wall Street Journal Morning Report", "The War Room with Quinn and Rose", Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey, Lars Larson, and "Coast to Coast AM". WCME also carries University of Maine football and local sports.

Previously WCME carried the morning show WTOS to fill a void in the mid-coast/Portland area when local jazz station WJZP-LP went on the air. The station also carried Boston Red Sox baseball off and on throughout the early 2000s.

History

WCME signed on in 1984 as an easy listening station, changing to a simulcast of WXGL 95.5 from Topsham (currently WJJB) in the mid 1990s. In the late 1990s (under ownership of Cumulus Broadcasting it was a coutry formatted station station, simulcasted with WCTB 93.5 in Fairfield. It adopted it's current News/Talk format simulcasting WVOM in Bangor and WHQO in Skowhegan as "The Voice of Maine News/Talk Network" in 2002, with WHQO (now WFMX) splitting off in 2003 and WCME changing slogans in 2005 after dropping WVOM's morning show and simulcasting WTOS.

External links

*FML|WCME
*FMQ|WCME
*FMARB|WCME