WABI-DT2
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Bangor, Maine United States |
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| Branding | Eastern and Central Maine's CW (general) WABI-TV 5 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Dare To Defy (general) Spirit of Maine (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: WABI-DT 13.2 (VHF) Virtual: 5.2 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | The CW (via The CW Plus) |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | September 1998 |
| Call letters' meaning | see WABI |
| Sister station(s) | WCJB-DT2 |
| Former callsigns | "WBAN" (1998-2006) |
| Former affiliations |
The WB (1998-2006, via The WB 100+) |
| Transmitter power | 12 kW (digital) |
| Height | 391.4 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 17005 (digital) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°42′11.7″N 69°4′46.8″W / 44.703250°N 69.079667°WCoordinates: 44°42′11.7″N 69°4′46.8″W / 44.703250°N 69.079667°W (digital) |
WABI-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for Central and Eastern Maine. It is part of The CW Plus which a special CW feed broadcasting on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. The station is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WABI-TV that is owned by Gray Television. Over-the-air, WABI-DT2 broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 13.2 (or virtual channel 5.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Peaked Mountain in Dixmont. It can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 10, DirecTV channel 14, and Dish Network channel 19. Known on-air as Eastern and Central Maine's CW, its parent station has studios on Hildreth Street in West Bangor.
WABI-DT2 started broadcasting in late-1998 and had the fictional call letters "WBAN". It was part of The WB 100+ cable group as The WB required over-the-air affiliates above the top 100 markets to be on cable. WBAN gradually replaced low-powered WBGR-LP as the WB affiliate in Bangor. That station is now with America One and Ion Television. On Adelphia systems, this station was on channel 4 and known on-air as "Bangor's WB 4". In early-2006, it swapped channel positions with low-powered Fox affiliate WFVX-LP but continued using the same branding. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros. unit of Time Warner. There was no UPN station in the market so Boston's WSBK-TV and Portland's WPME were piped in through cable.
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