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WABI-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Gray Media , the station has studios on Hildreth Street in West Bangor, and its transmitter is atop Peaked Mountain in Dixmont .
Diversified announced in 1993 that it would put most of its broadcasting properties, including WYOU and WABI, up for sale. [11] While it would retain WABI-TV following the collapse of a deal to sell it to Vision Communications, [12] the radio stations were sold to Bangor Radio Corporation. [11] [13]
DirecTV removes WABI-TV/Bangor, Maine (which carries CBS and The CW) and WCJB-TV/Gainesville, Florida (which carries ABC and The CW) after it fails to reach a carriage deal with their owner Diversified Communications, claiming the company wanted 300% more than their previous retransmission consent agreement. [122] 6
The deal, which marks Diversified's exit from broadcasting once the purchase receives FCC approval, ends WABI's status as the oldest continuously family-owned station in the U.S. and reunites the station with fellow CBS outlet WAGM-TV/Presque Isle, which Diversified had owned from 1971 to 1984 and was eventually sold to Gray in 2015. [50] 19
City of license / Market Station Years owned Current status Albany, Georgia: WALB 1590 1946–1960 [M]: WALG, owned by First Media Services : Quincy, Illinois: WGEM 1440 : 2021–2023 [G]
In 1957, Glidden sold Aroostook Broadcasting to Community Broadcasting System, a company controlled by former Governor Horace Hildreth, who also owned WABI-AM-TV in Bangor. [3] [4] Soon afterward, the station changed its primary affiliation to NBC, matching WABI-TV; however, WAGM-TV maintained secondary affiliations with CBS and ABC. [5]
In January 1995, The WB Television Network and the United Paramount Network (UPN) were launched, [1] each hoping to recreate the success of the Fox network, which had launched in October 1986 and became one of America's "major" networks through the successes of several early series (such as The Simpsons, Married... with Children, The X-Files, Melrose Place, Martin, In Living Color, COPS ...
In May 2011, the MDA dropped WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine from the Love Network after 30 years, citing potential economic costs resulting from the new format. [75] The move left WGME-TV in Portland as the only Love Network affiliate for the state of Maine, [75] which is not available on Time Warner Cable in most parts of the Bangor market. [76]