WLAM
| City | Lewiston, Maine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | |
| Branding | The Memories Station |
| Frequency | 1470 kHz |
| First air date | September 4, 1947 |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 5,000 watts unlimited |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 64434 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°3′47″N 70°15′0″W / 44.06306°N 70.25000°W |
| Callsign meaning | Lewiston Auburn Maine |
| Former callsigns | WLAM (1947–1990) WKZN (1990–1993) WZOU (1993–2001) |
| Owner | Robert Bittner (Blue Jey Broadcasting Co.) |
| Sister stations | WLVP |
WLAM (1470 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Lewiston, Maine, United States, the station serves the Lewiston-Auburn area. Established in 1947, the station is owned by Robert Bittner through licensee Blue Jey Broadcasting Co., and simulcasts with WLVP (870 AM).
WLAM first went on the air September 4, 1947. The station initially aired various programs, including ABC Radio programming, music, and local sports coverage. An FM sister station on 100.1, WWAV (now WTHT on 99.9) was launched in 1977. The station became WKZN on December 26, 1990, swapping call letters with its sister station in Gorham on 870; the two stations eventually began simulcasting a standards format. On July 19, 1993, WKZN changed its call sign to WZOU.
Wireless Talking Machine Company sold WZOU, WLAM, and WLAM-FM (106.7 FM, which had launched in 1996 as an FM simulcast of the stations; it is now WXTP), along with 99.9 (by then WMWX) and WTHT (107.5 FM; now WFNK) to Harron Communications, then-owner of WMTW-TV, in 1999. On May 21, 2001, Harron restored the WLAM call letters to the station; two weeks prior to this, 870 and 106.7 were converted to news/talk as WMTW. While WLAM initially retained the standards format, on November 26, the station was switched to a simulcast of WMTW; shortly afterwards, talk programming was removed from the stations in favor of an all-news format, mainly from the Associated Press's All-News Radio service.
After Harron sold its Maine radio stations to Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004, Newsradio WMTW was discontinued. Nassau also introduced three separate formats to the stations, with WLAM reverting to standards. This incarnation of the format would prove short-lived; in late 2005, the station switched to ESPN Radio.
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