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New TV Station For Northern ME? (Courtesy Scott Fybush)

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Scott Fybush is reporting that there will soon be a new TV station coming to Presque Isle, ME. It's supposed to be on channel 62 but may come on instead as a digital-only station on channel 47. It would be a million watts visual ERP from a tower on Castle Hill Road in Washburn, ME, northwest of Presque Isle. Seriously, besides WAGM-TV (CBS) channel 8 and WMEM-TV (PBS) channel 10, are there enough people in that part of Maine to support another TV station? I know that anything else on cable there is either from Bangor or Atlantic Canada. ???
 
What'll it be? All they've got now is PBS (10) and CBS primary (8). I doubt it'd be a FOX station since Bangor/Orono only gets it on a low-power station themselves.
 
I recently visited Presque Isle looking at a radio station that is for sale currently. It is a very beautiful area and is over radio'ed in the most conservative sense.

However, I can't see this station making it competitively with Citadel Radio up there and also WAGM basically charging rates like the radio stations.

In fact, while there I also checked into the LPTV situation. Not much going on.

The thought was this, find a radio station or two and couple it with a tv station.

The owners are from Austin, TX and I believe just want to build it and sell it instead of cultivating it.

But, honestly; I can't see this station basically recouping close to $750,000 (what it would cost to build this station out) as an analog. Then, figure another $500,000 to digitize the station.

But, it's just my opinion.

I may have the name radioboss; but, I also own a tv station in the Mid-Atlantic region.
 
To show you how big Aroostook County, ME is...you can fit the entire states of Connecticut and Rhode Island into it. It's the largest county in all of New England, yet is quite remote. As for the media, I'm more concerned with TV there than radio. (I DO care about radio in southern Maine, especially in Cumberland and York Counties.) Shows how big a state Maine is compared to Connecticut: I've lived there (Maine) twice. However, I've only been as far as Bangor and a Nazarene Camp in Washington, ME.

Bigger question is which network would the new station be? I say it'd be ABC for entertainment, but FOX or NBC for sports on a secondary basis.
 
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