Someone please come to north maine and bring good radio. In presque isle we have a talk station, three music station' on sat voice track ,and caribou a chain set of low power short stick fm's / The main one wcxu and that are so dry they make n p r sound almost good , no jingles no liners , no life dull and dry .just music and spots , but they do good news , net and local . where is real and live and local radio ?
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mr_mark_taylor
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that's live local radio for ya these days in small market radio....only one corperate owner up there in the Citadel group, and i think they drop the satellight programming a few years back.
YES, ITS BAD HERE, the three citadal are on sat,most all the time .The eng. I help out sometimes and it looks like there is no change in sight. The talk station is very good ,but when you want to hear a good music station its ch x ...dead radio or sat voice track. But back in birmingham its sat / voice track also. Its bad everywhere I think :'(
it's not going to change anytime soon, especially in Northern Maine....theres little population to support massive amounts of live programming or different formats. There too many choices between basic TV, radio, satellight radio, etc. It's not like 1962 when you had your one big Top 40 station live 24/7 spinning records and 3 TV stations and no remote.
Sad, but very true.
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turnitup
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I live in Bangor where I work as an accountant but have been heading up that way to do some hunting and camping for years. I agree, the radio up there is awful. WCXU has a LOT of news but is very boring. Their signal in Madawaska came in great at the camp I used at Long Lake. I hear their former morning guy doing news on WZON now. He was fun to listen to. The other Citadel stations are not a lot better but have killer signals. The Classic Rock station (WOZI) is OK but they never go deep musically speaking. They have a local afternoon show, I think it's live too. The talk station (WEGP) has been on the air since the 60's. I listened to them when I would travel up there to visit family in Presque Isle when I was a kid. This was back in the early 70's. You used to be able to get a lot of local flavor on the radio up that way but not anymore.
Yes it does get very tiring up here, when the newest song you can hear comes from the 80's.
The Grand Falls Station, K93 (CIKX 93.5) does a decent job with a good mix from 80's to now, including some actual hit music.
Unfour. they haven't learned that their are listeners across the border and to upgrade their signal a little bit....
We give the time and temp. for them, but they don't.....
Anyways, I always hope for tropo so I can listen to Bangor. Their's no comparison, there IS a station for you there,
unfor. the tropo from WBZN Z107.3 only happens once a week if that
But i can get WHCF all the way from Caribou pretty good almost all the time
ya.....
The Grand Falls Station, K93 (CIKX 93.5) does a decent job with a good mix from 80's to now, including some actual hit music.
Unfour. they haven't learned that their are listeners across the border and to upgrade their signal a little bit....
We give the time and temp. for them, but they don't.....
Anyways, I always hope for tropo so I can listen to Bangor. Their's no comparison, there IS a station for you there,
unfor. the tropo from WBZN Z107.3 only happens once a week if that
But i can get WHCF all the way from Caribou pretty good almost all the time
ya.....
Yep, I'm certainly empathetic...on some days just pathetic.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Presque Isle, but now reside in the Bangor area. Radio everywhere has been on the decline for live talent. Broadcasting has been a part of my life for the better part of 19 years now. I now work 92.9 WEZQ in Brewer as the mid-day personality, and yes, I'm live! Fortunately we can listen to many a station via the internet...it sucks whe you're in the car, but the internet is an option. Our radio group broadcasts through the internet. Give us a listen:
92.9 WEZQ www.wezq-fm.com Format: Adult Contemporary
Z107.3 WBZN www.wbzn-fm.com Format: Hot AC
I-95 WWMJ www.wwmj-fm.com Format: Classic Hits (Rock)
Q106.6 WQCB www.wqcb-fm.com Format: Country
Nelson Jewell
(A County Boy and Proud of it)
92.9 WEZQ
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Presque Isle, but now reside in the Bangor area. Radio everywhere has been on the decline for live talent. Broadcasting has been a part of my life for the better part of 19 years now. I now work 92.9 WEZQ in Brewer as the mid-day personality, and yes, I'm live! Fortunately we can listen to many a station via the internet...it sucks whe you're in the car, but the internet is an option. Our radio group broadcasts through the internet. Give us a listen:
92.9 WEZQ www.wezq-fm.com Format: Adult Contemporary
Z107.3 WBZN www.wbzn-fm.com Format: Hot AC
I-95 WWMJ www.wwmj-fm.com Format: Classic Hits (Rock)
Q106.6 WQCB www.wqcb-fm.com Format: Country
Nelson Jewell
(A County Boy and Proud of it)
92.9 WEZQ
no way!!! wow, I have listened to you in the area! Thanks for responding to my post, Yes, I really like, no wait, LOVE the Bangor market, the Cumulus stations are really good, and the CC, well, Blueberry are 2. It's great that alot of stations, including the Bangor cumulus. I just crave sometimes those Bangor stations and sometimes they come through to me, i must be pathetic but still, it's weird they actually come in thanks to me living on a hill.
Anyway, i was surprised at how good the variety of music is played on 92.9, not may FAV. station, but I will certainly listen 2 it. Q106.5 is #1 i believe in the market, and it shows, very local, except im not a big fan of country, and an enormous signal. Z107.3 is a great station too, but sometimes their playing a few dried out Top-40 songs, but there still my #2 station in the area...... and I-95 is great for those classic hits fans.
The radio maybe bad up here, but it's always a good feeling knowing down there I can get what I always want, and then some.
Who knows, you just might see me doing the morning news for the Cumulus stations in a few years.....
Anyway, i was surprised at how good the variety of music is played on 92.9, not may FAV. station, but I will certainly listen 2 it. Q106.5 is #1 i believe in the market, and it shows, very local, except im not a big fan of country, and an enormous signal. Z107.3 is a great station too, but sometimes their playing a few dried out Top-40 songs, but there still my #2 station in the area...... and I-95 is great for those classic hits fans.
The radio maybe bad up here, but it's always a good feeling knowing down there I can get what I always want, and then some.
Who knows, you just might see me doing the morning news for the Cumulus stations in a few years.....
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chuckfoster
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Nelz beat me to the post on the Cumulus streaming addresses, but Nelz, EZQ is the AC. WBZN is CHR, not Hot AC.
Hey benwnn91,
Thanks for listening! Yep, we all have our favs. I listen to I-95 most of the time when I'm off the air. I can't wait to hear your news delivery on Cumulus.
Hey ChuckFoster,
WEZQ is certainly a lighter version of the AC genre. This time of year, AC stands for air conditioned .
You're right of course, WBZN is CHR... somedays you guys fool me with your music selection, though. I really get confused with your Back in the Day Cafe' feature at noontime. Sometimes Kid will come in looking for some obscure song from the 70's or 80's...and strangely enough we'll have it.
nelz
Thanks for listening! Yep, we all have our favs. I listen to I-95 most of the time when I'm off the air. I can't wait to hear your news delivery on Cumulus.
Hey ChuckFoster,
WEZQ is certainly a lighter version of the AC genre. This time of year, AC stands for air conditioned .
You're right of course, WBZN is CHR... somedays you guys fool me with your music selection, though. I really get confused with your Back in the Day Cafe' feature at noontime. Sometimes Kid will come in looking for some obscure song from the 70's or 80's...and strangely enough we'll have it.
nelz
no way (again), it's Chuck Foster. Here again, I will say yes, it's great that the Cumulus stations can be listened online (unfor. for me is im on a laptop that doesn't have the plugin and i can't download it 
) but anyway ya
I wish the Citadel ppl get the message about radio up here, is it more usefull to have a country station or a really crappy rock station (same 100 songs replayed it seems). A Top-40 station WOULD work, if I have to open it myself then I will
) but anyway yaI wish the Citadel ppl get the message about radio up here, is it more usefull to have a country station or a really crappy rock station (same 100 songs replayed it seems). A Top-40 station WOULD work, if I have to open it myself then I will
Count me in, .
Radio Will Never Be The Same
Back when Chuck Foster, Michael O'Hara and Mighty John Marshall were on 'GUY 12 Rock, Bangor Radio was at its PEAK! Circa 1980, IIRC. They had moved across town to WZON by the time I had arrived in 1981. Back then, I was known as Doug Driscoll. I replaced Hollywood Brother John Jackson, mid-days at WGUY-FM, then known as Y-101. The program director "Captain" Kirk Sherwood hired me and was immediately replaced by J.R. "Records" Randall as PD.
When WGUY-FM became WKIT, PDs started telling the air talent to "Shut up and play MUSIC!" The LISTENERS were complaining! They said we "talked too much". Yeah? You got your wish! I retired in 2008. I'm not a jukebox. Computers and satellites do my job now. When I worked in the 70s & 80s, we had real equipment you had to be good at to do Radio right!
You had to cue records on industrial turntables, fast forward and cue tapes, load cart machines and fire them off on cue...back-time your music to hit the network at the top of the hour! Manually! Read news while changing out the cart tapes in the machines for actualities...rip & read off the teletype (the what?), set up and do remote broadcasts (no cell phones!)...etc. I used to hear, "You got a really easy job!" Oh REALLY? I never really made any money in Maine. I made $40,000 a year in Florida at night on Oldies 95. A four-hour shift, five days a week.
Same thing on Gator Country in Bonita Springs. $38,000 a year at night. I'm a single guy, so that's comfortable. Then, new PD came in and said, "Shut Up..." Here we go again. Then they went satellite. They had me help build and wire the system before they canned me! That was my last radio job. I came back to Maine and retired...
Doug Shannon
Back when Chuck Foster, Michael O'Hara and Mighty John Marshall were on 'GUY 12 Rock, Bangor Radio was at its PEAK! Circa 1980, IIRC. They had moved across town to WZON by the time I had arrived in 1981. Back then, I was known as Doug Driscoll. I replaced Hollywood Brother John Jackson, mid-days at WGUY-FM, then known as Y-101. The program director "Captain" Kirk Sherwood hired me and was immediately replaced by J.R. "Records" Randall as PD.
When WGUY-FM became WKIT, PDs started telling the air talent to "Shut up and play MUSIC!" The LISTENERS were complaining! They said we "talked too much". Yeah? You got your wish! I retired in 2008. I'm not a jukebox. Computers and satellites do my job now. When I worked in the 70s & 80s, we had real equipment you had to be good at to do Radio right!
You had to cue records on industrial turntables, fast forward and cue tapes, load cart machines and fire them off on cue...back-time your music to hit the network at the top of the hour! Manually! Read news while changing out the cart tapes in the machines for actualities...rip & read off the teletype (the what?), set up and do remote broadcasts (no cell phones!)...etc. I used to hear, "You got a really easy job!" Oh REALLY? I never really made any money in Maine. I made $40,000 a year in Florida at night on Oldies 95. A four-hour shift, five days a week.
Same thing on Gator Country in Bonita Springs. $38,000 a year at night. I'm a single guy, so that's comfortable. Then, new PD came in and said, "Shut Up..." Here we go again. Then they went satellite. They had me help build and wire the system before they canned me! That was my last radio job. I came back to Maine and retired...
Doug Shannon
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