WTQX

WTQX

City	Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Broadcast area	Lincoln County, Maine
Branding	105-TOS
Slogan	"The Mountain of Pure Rock"
Frequency	96.7 MHz
Format	Album-oriented rock (AOR)
ERP	15,500 watts
HAAT	127 meters
Class	B1
Facility ID	4090
Former callsigns	(WCME 1984-2009)
Owner	Blueberry Broadcasting (Blueberry Broadcasting, LLC)
Website	http://www.wtosfm.com

WTQX is a commercial FM album-oriented rock (AOR)radio station located at 96.7, owned by Blueberry Broadcasting and licensed to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. The station serves Mid-Coast Maine with studios in Augusta, Maine. As of March 2009 the station is simulcasting co-owned Augusta-based WTOS-FM.

History

WCME signed on in 1984 as an easy listening station, changing to a simulcast of WXGL 95.5 from Topsham (currently WPPI) in the mid-1990s. In the late 1990s, under ownership of Cumulus Broadcasting, it was a country formatted station, simulcasted with WCTB 93.5 in Fairfield. It adopted a News/Talk format simulcasting WVOM in Bangor and WHQO in Skowhegan as The Voice of Maine News/Talk Network in 2002, with WHQO (now WFMX) splitting off in 2003 and WCME changing slogans in 2005 after dropping WVOM's morning show and simulcasting WTOS' morning show. On January 5, 2009 the station dropped talk programming and inherited the AC format and slogan vacated by co-owned WKCG which switched to a simulcast of WVOM. The Star image and AC format was short lived, as in March of the same year, the station began simulcasting WTOS-FM.

On May 4, 2009 WCME changed their call letters to WTQX.

Programming as a talk station

As a talk station programming included "The Wall Street Journal Morning Report", "Quinn and Rose", "The War Room with Quinn and Rose", Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey, Lars Larson, and "Coast to Coast AM". WCME also carried University of Maine football and local sports.

Previously WCME carried the morning show of WTOS-FM to fill a void in the mid-coast/Portland area when local jazz station WJZP-LP went on the air on the same frequency as WTOS. The station also carried Boston Red Sox baseball off and on throughout the early 2000s.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WTQX

Radio-Locator information on WTQX

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WTQX

Radio stations in the Augusta-Waterville, Maine market

By AM frequency	1160 1280 1340 1400 1450 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.5 89.7 90.5 91.3 91.5 92.3 93.3 93.5 93.9 95.3 96.7 97.5 98.5 99.3 100.5 101.3 102.5 102.9 103.3 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.9 107.5 107.9

By callsign	W263AS WABK-FM WARX WBCI WBLM WBQX WBYA WCTB WEBB WFMX WFNK WJYE WJZN WKTJ-FM WMCM WMDR WMDR-FM WMEP WMEW WMEY WMHB WMME-FM WQSK WQSS WRFR-LP WSKW WTOS-FM WTQX WTVL WUMF WVOM WVQM WWTP WWWA

Maine radio markets Augusta–Waterville Bangor Portland Other Maine radio regions Northern & Downeast Maine Lewiston–Auburn See also List of radio stations in Maine

Blueberry Broadcasting

AM radio stations	WABK WVOM

FM radio stations	WABK-FM WBAK WBFB WBFE WBKA WKSQ WMCM WQSK WQSS WTOS-FM WTQX WTUX WVOM-FM WVQM

Coordinates: 44°01′30″N 69°34′16″W / 44.025°N 69.571°W / 44.025; -69.571

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