WBAN (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Veazie, Maine, United States, the station serves the Bangor area. The station is owned by Port Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from ABC News Radio, Compass Media Networks, and Premiere Networks.^[1]

History

WBAN originally signed on in 2002 as WNZS, initially simulcasting CNN Headline News but gradually adding talk shows, primarily from the Salem Radio Network. Programs included Bill Bennett's Morning in America, The Laura Ingraham Show, Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved. In 2011, co-owned WGUY signed on the air and began simulcasting WNZS. In March 2012, the station began simulcasting on FM translator W231CH 94.1, which had previously simulcasted WWNZ. The FM translator switched to a simulcast of WGUY in May 2012, when that station flipped formats to oldies. In late 2014, the Salem Radio Network programming moved to WWNZ, with WNZS picking up WWNZ's Fox News Radio programming. As a talk station it also rebroadcast the newscasts from Bangor's ABC affiliate WVII.

In the summer of 2015, the station added an FM translator on 106.1, W291CO, however in early 2016 the translator was sold to Maine Public Broadcasting Network. The station changed its call sign to the current WBAN on July 27, 2016. In December 2016, Pine Tree Broadcasting announced that its stations would be sold to Port Broadcasting (owners of WWSF, WNBP and WXEX-FM/WXEX) with WBAN inheriting the soft AC format from WGUY and WGUY reverting to back to its oldies format it had carried previous to Pine Tree Broadcasting's ownership. W231CH, which had rebroadcast WGUY and its soft AC format, began rebroadcasting WBAN.^[2] NASCAR programming moved to WCYR.

Logo before 95.1 translator sign on

References

External links

• WBAN in the FCC AM station database
• WBAN in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
• W231CH in the FCC FM station database
• W231CH at FCCdata.org
• W236DP in the FCC FM station database
• W236DP at FCCdata.org