WZON
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| City | Bangor, Maine |
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| Branding | AM 620 The Pulse |
| Slogan | A New Voice, A New Choice |
| Frequency | 620 kHz |
| First air date | December 1926 |
| Format | Progressive talk |
| Audience share | 3.2, #11 (Fa'07, R&R) |
| Power | 5,000 watts day and night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 66674 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°49′44″N 68°47′8″W / 44.82889°N 68.78556°W |
| Callsign meaning | The Dead ZONe |
| Former callsigns | WLBZ (1926–1981) WACZ (1981–1983) |
| Affiliations | CBS, Westwood One, Red Sox Radio Network |
| Owner | The Zone Corporation |
| Sister stations | WKIT-FM, WZLO |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WZON (620 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a progressive talk radio format. The station is licensed to Bangor and serves Central Maine.
Along with sister stations 100. 3 WKIT-FM and 103.1 WZLO, WZON is owned by The Zone Corporation, the broadcast company owned by authors Tabitha King and her husband, best-selling horror writer Stephen King. WZON operates at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional transmitter by day and a directional pattern at night to protect other stations on 620 kHz. It is one of Maine's oldest radio stations, first signing on the air in 1926.
WZON airs local morning and afternoon shows on weekdays, with nationally syndicated programs the rest of the day, including Thom Hartmann, Bill Press, Leslie Marshall, Marilu Henner, Clark Howard and Overnight America with Jon Grayson. Local newscasts from Bangor CBS affiliate WABI-TV 5 are carried in the early morning and in the early evening. Weekends feature a classic hits music format as "Z62", which the station carried in the late 1970's & 1980's. Hourly national news is supplied by CBS Radio News.
WZON is one of the oldest radio stations in Maine. The station signed on in December 1926 as WLBZ, owned by Thompson L. Guernsey and operating from Dover-Foxcroft at 1440 kHz. It moved to 620 in 1928; the following year, the station moved to Bangor and was transferred to Maine Broadcasting Company, which was controlled by Guernsey. WLBZ was a CBS affiliate by 1930; in 1939, it switched to NBC. Guernsey first attempted to sell the station to the Rines family, owner of WCSH in Portland, in 1938; however, Guernsey did not complete the deal, leading the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismiss the application on June 18, 1940. However, in 1944, to help pay off an outstanding note, Guernsey was forced to sell WLBZ at auction to the Rines-controlled Eastland Broadcasting Company.
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