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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 .
(WBTS-CD transmits over full-power WGBX-TV's spectrum, but is excluded as it is classified as a low-power license). A blue background indicates a station transmitting in the ATSC 3.0 format over-the-air; details about the station's alternate availability in the original ATSC format are contained in its article.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Bangor: 2 2 WLBZ: NBC: True Crime Network on 2.2, Ion on 2.3 : 5 13 WABI-TV: CBS: CW on 5.2, Catchy Comedy on 5.3, Circle on 5.4 : 7
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]
WBGR-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station licensed to both Bangor and Dedham, Maine, United States, affiliated with MeTV. The station is owned by James McLeod, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Ohio Street in Glenburn, Maine .
WTWO-TV/WLBZ-TV 2 (now WLBZ) 1955-1959 NBC WABI-TV 5 (previously with CBS (secondary) from 1953-1955) Swapped affiliations with NBC affiliate WABI-TV due to WLBZ-TV's association with WCSH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Portland. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas: KBMT 31 (now on channel 12) 1954-1955 ABC KFDM 6 Lost CBS affiliation upon the sign-on of ...
Diversified was founded in 1949 when Horace A. Hildreth, the former governor of Maine, president of Bucknell University and U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, purchased Community Broadcasting Service, owner of Maine's oldest radio station, WABI in Bangor. In 1953, he launched Maine's first TV station, WABI-TV in Bangor.
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]