WBKA (FM)
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| City |
WBAK: Belfast, Maine WBKA: Bar Harbor, Maine |
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| Broadcast area | Penobscot County, Maine |
| Branding | Big 104 FM |
| Slogan | The Biggest Hits! |
| Frequency |
WBAK: 104.7 MHz WBKA: 107.7 MHz |
| First air date |
WBAK: March 7, 1986 WBKA: May 6, 1995 |
| Format | Classic hits |
| ERP |
WBAK: 10,000 watts WBKA: 11,500 watts |
| HAAT |
WBAK: 335 meters (1,099 ft) WBKA: 149 meters (489 ft) |
| Class |
WBAK: B WBKA: B1 |
| Facility ID |
WBAK: 25411 WBKA: 40925 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WBAK: 44°34′51″N 68°53′51″W / 44.58083°N 68.89750°W WBKA: 44°33′13″N 68°5′40″W / 44.55361°N 68.09444°W |
| Callsign meaning | WBAK: similar to WABK (sister station in Gardiner) |
| Former callsigns |
WBAK: WWFX (1986–1997) WBFB (1997–2011) WAEI-FM (2011–2012) WBKA: WEJS (1993-1994) WMDI (1994–2001) WBQI (2001-2013) |
| Owner |
Blueberry Broadcasting (Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WABK, WBFB, WBFE, WKSQ, WVOM-FM |
| Website | www |
WBAK (104.7 FM; "Big 104 FM") is an American radio station licensed to Belfast, Maine, with studios located in Bangor. It is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting, and broadcasts a classic hits format. Its programming is also simulcast on WBKA (107.7 FM) in Bar Harbor, as well as Gardiner-based sister station WABK-FM (104.3 FM).
WBAK came on the air March 7, 1986 as WWFX, a contemporary hit radio station known as "The Fox" and owned by Sunnie Silverman, who sold the station to Bruce Mittman, owner of WICE in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, that December. The station was taken over in 1991 by Union Financial Services, which sold the station to Group H Radio on March 17, 1993.
Group H announced on September 18, 1996 that it would sell WWFX to Star Broadcasting, a company owned by Mark Osborne and Natalie Knox (current owners of WNSX) that already owned WKSQ and WLKE (now WBFE). To minimize playlist overlap with WKSQ, on September 20, Star changed the station's format to country music as "The Bear" the first song was "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson. The change gave rival WQCB its first competition since WYOU-FM became modern rock station WWBX a year earlier. The WWFX call letters were replaced with WBFB on April 25, 1997 after the station attempted to obtain the WEBR call sign.
Osborne and Knox sold WBFB, WKSQ, and WLKE to Communications Capital Managers in February 2000; that July, CCM announced that it would sell the group (which through other purchases also included WBYA, WGUY, and WVOM) to Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel announced on November 16, 2006 that it would sell its Bangor stations after being bought by private equity firms, resulting in a sale to Blueberry Broadcasting to 2008; on September 28, 2009, Blueberry began simulcasting WBFB on WLKE and WMCM, replacing their separate country formats. The station swapped formats and call letters with 97.1 FM (the former WYOU-FM) on September 1, 2011 and became sports radio station WAEI-FM, simulcasting with WAEI (WLKE and WMCM continue to simulcast WBFB on its new frequency). The call letters were changed to WBAK on February 5, 2012; the next day, the format was changed to classic hits, leaving the sports format exclusively on WAEI's 910 AM frequency.
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