WBFE
WBFE (99.1 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a country music format simulcasting WBFB. Licensed to Bar Harbor, Maine, United States, the station serves the Down East Maine area. The station is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting.[1]
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| City | Bar Harbor, Maine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Mount Desert Island, Downeast Maine |
| Frequency | 99.1 MHz |
| Branding | The New Bear |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Motor Racing Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Blueberry Broadcasting (Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC) |
| History | |
| First air date | June 1, 1992 |
| Former call signs | WPRG (1988–1992) WLKE (1992–2013) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 62289 |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 45,000 watts |
| HAAT | 121 meters (397 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°31′14″N 68°23′38″W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
History
The station was assigned call sign WPRG on March 24, 1988. On May 19, 1992, the station changed its call sign to WLKE;[2] on June 1, it signed on. As of September 28, 2009, it became part of a three station country network based out of Blueberry's Bangor office, simulcasting WBFB and also heard on WMCM.[3] On September 23, 2013, the station took its current WBFE call sign.[2] Prior to September 28, 2009, the station was branded as "Lucky 99.1".
gollark: And I found out the computers all have keyloggers by typing a bunch of suspicious keywords into notepad (and not saving that). They complained that I had apparently wasted a bunch of time by doing so.
gollark: This has never been fixed because apparently the old software does everything they want fine.
gollark: Also, they use Raspberry Pis for some programming education, but connecting to the package repositories they need for updates is blocked by the filtering proxy.
gollark: Sometimes they fail to PXE-boot or something like that and are just stuck displaying a black screen with some error messages on it.
gollark: In my school there are a bunch of displays with "information" on them (mostly news headlines and promotional images of the school) which apparently run Windows, because they frequently seem to undergo updates and sometimes are stuck on a blank desktop (do they not know how to make stuff autostart?).
References
- "WLKE Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- "WBFE Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- "NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush". www.fybush.com.
External links
- Official Website
- WBFE in the FCC's FM station database
- WBFE on Radio-Locator
- WBFE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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