City | Bar Harbor, Maine |
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Broadcast area | Mount Desert Island, Downeast Maine |
Branding | The New Bear |
Frequency | 99.1 MHz |
First air date | June 1, 1992 |
Format | Country |
ERP | 45,000 watts |
HAAT | 121 meters (397 ft) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 62289 |
Transmitter coordinates | 44°31′14″N 68°23′38″W / 44.52056°N 68.39389°W |
Former callsigns | WPRG (1988–1992) WLKE (1992–2013) |
Affiliations | Motor Racing Network |
Owner |
Blueberry Broadcasting (Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC) |
Website | 971thebear.com |
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.
The station was assigned call sign WPRG on March 24, 1988. On May 19, 1992, the station changed its call sign to WLKE; 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. On September 23, 2013, the station took its current WBFE call sign.