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Forest, do you need a list of the 13 Bangor,ME FM Stations that are over 50,000 watts and broadcast very easily the 20-25 miles from their transmitters to Argyle? I lived in Maine for 20 years and worked out of your area for years and had zero problems getting LOCAL news, sports and weather. Never once did I hear Bostons news or weather on a Bangor station. Shoot, some of those stations I listened to up in the Presque Isle area which a LOT further away that Argyle.
Theyre are very few actualy 50KW statons, there are tons that run the equivalent of due to a taller tower (Radio guy here)
Go to Radio-Locator and type in your city and state to see what can be heard where you live
Theyre are very few actualy 50KW statons, there are tons that run the equivalent of due to a taller tower (Radio guy here)
Go to Radio-Locator and type in your city and state to see what can be heard where you live
If you want to use that site then, fair enough, that puts 12 stations in EASY range for Argyle, ME. and an additional 3 as distant and 3 more as fringe.
Locally owned FM stations in Bangor that I KNOW reach Argyle.
WHCF - 88.5 - Religious programming (Started by Bangor Baptist Church back in the mid 80's)
WHSN - 89.3 - Husson College, but it is close (less than 12 miles from you)
WKSQ - 94.5 - Adult Contemporary (owned by Blueberry Broadcasting out of Augusta and Bangor)
WKIT - 100.3 - Rock (Owned by Zone Radio which consists of WZON the AM station and WKIT - owned by author Stephen King and his wife, and 24/7 local DJ's)
WVOM - 103.9 - Talk Radio (Blueberry Broadcasting again)
WBFB - 104.7 - Country (Blueberry Broadcasting)
WHMX - 105.7 Christian Contemporary (Blueberry Broadcasting)
This doesn't include several that are owned by larger corporations and carry local news either. Argyle is tiny (unincorporated) and it is rural, but it isn't that remote. Unless you consider less than 25 miles to a city of 35,000 and a couple respected colleges within 15 miles remote.
Locally owned FM stations in Bangor that I KNOW reach Argyle.
WHCF - 88.5 - Religious programming (Started by Bangor Baptist Church back in the mid 80's)
WHSN - 89.3 - Husson College, but it is close (less than 12 miles from you)
WKSQ - 94.5 - Adult Contemporary (owned by Blueberry Broadcasting out of Augusta and Bangor)
WKIT - 100.3 - Rock (Owned by Zone Radio which consists of WZON the AM station and WKIT - owned by author Stephen King and his wife, and 24/7 local DJ's)
WVOM - 103.9 - Talk Radio (Blueberry Broadcasting again)
WBFB - 104.7 - Country (Blueberry Broadcasting)
WHMX - 105.7 Christian Contemporary (Blueberry Broadcasting)
This doesn't include several that are owned by larger corporations and carry local news either. Argyle is tiny (unincorporated) and it is rural, but it isn't that remote. Unless you consider less than 25 miles to a city of 35,000 and a couple respected colleges within 15 miles remote.
I don't live in Maine, but it's the same anywhere, local news to a station 25 miles away is not necessarily local news in your hometown. You can really only get that from a truly LOCAL station, with a LOCAL news department that is not just set up as a "repeater" for some syndicated programing from somewhere else in the country. Now STATE news would be the same, as long as that station 25 miles away is in the same state, and truly has a news department.
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I don't live in Maine, but it's the same anywhere, local news to a station 25 miles away is not necessarily local news in your hometown. You can really only get that from a truly LOCAL station, with a LOCAL news department that is not just set up as a "repeater" for some syndicated programing from somewhere else in the country. Now STATE news would be the same, as long as that station 25 miles away is in the same state, and truly has a news department.
In Maine 25 miles away IS local. Argyle is an unincorporated township with a population that hovers around 250 if I remember correctly.
In Maine 25 miles away IS local. Argyle is an unincorporated township with a population that hovers around 250 if I remember correctly.
Where I live in NW Ohio, 25 miles away is half way to the nearest city with a population of over 10,000 people. What is considered local news to stations there is of no interest to us, other than the fact that we might have some relatives in that area. They don't have the report from OUR last night's school board or town council meeting. They won't report where our fire department went on their call last night, unless our crew went over to help them fight a fire in their town. The EMS went out to a fatal car wreck, but they won't have any details for us. Our high school athletes only get mentioned on their station when we compete against them. To me, that is local news. The only way we get what we consider local news is from the station in town that does local newscasts between 6 and 9 in the morning, before they switch over to their satellite feeds. The rest of the day they only have national and world news from one of the major networks.
This morning at 7am I was awakened by this VERY loud siren. Now being from the south I immediately thought tornado. Then oh they don't have those where I live now. I'm thinking, flood, evacuation, Russians attacking. Getting up I look out my window to see cars and trucks pulling up to the fire station. It's a fire siren. In 2009, a fire siren. How quaint. I'm going to donate pagers to them I think.
Other than to notify the volunteers of a fire, the fire siren goes off twice in the small town I grew up in. Once at noon and once at curfew for teens. Plus, there was a bright flashing light at the local establishment that was triggered whenever the siren went off. Just in case you weren't able to hear the siren over the music & people.
I guess having an alert system for the volunteer fire dept. in a bar is another sign of being in a small town.
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