| WVOM-FM | |
| City: | Howland, Maine |
| Country: | US |
| Area: | Bangor
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| Branding: | VOM, the Voice of Maine |
| Frequency: | 103.9 MHz |
| Airdate: | (as WSNV)[1] |
| Format: | Talk |
| Erp: | 90,000 watts |
| Haat: | 460m (1,510feet) |
| Class: | C |
| Facility Id: | 4092 |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
| Coordinates: | 45.13°N -68.357°W |
| Callsign Meaning: | Voice of Maine |
| Affiliations: | Premiere Networks |
| Owner: | Blueberry Broadcasting |
| Licensee: | Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC |
| Webcast: | Listen Live |
| Website: | wvomfm.com |
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 Louis Vitale and Bruce Biette. WVOM-FM is known as "The Voice of Maine".
The studios and offices are located on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor.[2] The transmitter, powered at 90,000 watts, is on a mountaintop near Burlington.[3] WVOM-FM is simulcast on WVQM (101.3 FM) in Augusta, which extends the station's programming to the capital region.
WVOM-FM airs a local morning drive information and talk program co-hosted by George Hale and Ric Tyler. Syndicated conservative talk shows follow, mostly from Premiere Networks. They include The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Howie Carr Show, The Sean Hannity Show, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
Local shows on weekends include "Hot and Cold with Tom Gocze". It is WVOM's longest running local program and originated in 1989 on then-talk station WZON. It had been co-hosted by Gocze and Dr. Dick Hill, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Maine for over 46 years. A TV show was also seen on Maine Public Broadcasting Network, after being carried for many years on WVII/WFVX-LD. Gocze and Hill also wrote columns for the Bangor Daily News. In 2008 Hill scaled back his time on the program and later retired.
Other weekend programming includes The Kim Komando Show, The Car Doctor with Ron Ananian, Senior Talk, Financial Safari, Maine View, The Maine Outdoors, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell, the weekend version of Coast to Coast AM and the repeats of weekday shows.
A construction permit for an FM station in Howland was granted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1989.[4] The permit carried the call sign WPVM, which was changed to WPRG in 1992; neither call sign would be used on the air.
In June 1993, the station signed on as WSNV.[5] It aired an adult contemporary format and was owned by Bay Communications, Inc.
In 1997, the station was acquired by San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (later known as iHeartMedia).[6] Clear Channel switched the format to conservative talk, mostly featuring its own syndicated programs, and using CBS Radio News for world and national coverage.
WVOM and the other 16 Clear Channel stations in Maine were sold in August 2008 to Maine-based Blueberry Broadcasting which is headed by Louis Vitale and Bruce Biette.
WVOM-FM's programming was previously heard on WVOM (AM 1450) and FM translator W236DO (95.1) in Rockland, serving Midcoast Maine. The license for WVOM AM was surrendered to the FCC and cancelled on July 21, 2022. Translator W236DO’s license was surrendered and cancelled on the same day.
Dropped in favor of Glenn Beck, program moved to WABI AM 910.
Races moved to sister station WBFB.
|Hendrie ended his original show in June 2006. Replaced by Coast to Coast AM rebroadcasts.
bostonradio.org Radio history of Maine 1971-1996, also an audio collection and weekly columns.