WTQX is an FM broadcast 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

Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the capital of the US state of Maine, county seat of Kennebec County, and center of population for Maine. The city's population was 19,136 at the 2010 census, making it the third-smallest state capital after Montpelier, Vermont and Pierre, South Dakota...

. As of March 2009 the station is simulcasting co-owned Augusta-based WTOS-FM

WTOS-FM

WTOS-FM , known as "The Mountain of Pure Rock", is an FM radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine whose studios are located in Augusta.-History:...

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History

WCME signed on in 1984 as an easy listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

 station, changing to a simulcast of WXGL

WXGL

WXGL, known as "The New 107.3 The Eagle - Tampa Bay's Classic Hits Station", is a Cox-owned radio station located on the FM dial at 107.3 in Tampa, Florida. The station plays classic hits, primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, but also the 1990s...

 95.5 from Topsham (currently WLOB-FM

WLOB

WLOB is a news/talk radio station in the Portland, Maine area. The current owner is Atlantic Coast Radio. In the 1960's McGavern/Guild Media NYC owned WLOB AM 1310/FM 98 as Atlantic States Industries Div...

) in the mid 1990s. In the late 1990s, under ownership of Cumulus Broadcasting, it was a country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 formatted station station, simulcasted with WCTB

WCTB

WCTB is an FM radio broadcast station licensed to Fairfield, Maine, with studios in Skowhegan. It broadcasts on 93.5 MHz with an oldies format, largely simulcasting Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel.- History :...

 93.5 in Fairfield

Fairfield, Maine

Fairfield is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 6,735 at the 2010 census. The town includes Fairfield Center, Fairfield village and Hinckley...

. It adopted a News/Talk format simulcasting WVOM

WVOM

WVOM is an FM radio station located at 103.9 MHz, owned by Blueberry Broadcasting. WVOM and the other 16 Clear Channel stations in Maine were sold in August 2008 to Maine-based Blueberry Broadcasting which is headed by Louis Vitale and Bruce Biette...

 in Bangor

Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...

 and WHQO in Skowhegan as The Voice of Maine News/Talk Network in 2002, with WHQO (now WFMX

WFMX

WMKS, "105.7 NOW" is a Rhythmic-leaning top 40 outlet serving the Piedmont Triad region. The station is a part of Clear Channel's cluster in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem market and is licensed to Clemmons, North Carolina.-History as WFMX:...

) splitting off in 2003 and WCME changing slogan

Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm . Slogans vary from the written and the...

s 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

Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm . Slogans vary from the written and the...

 vacated by co-owned WKCG

WKCG

WVQM is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format and simulcasting co-owned WVOM from Bangor, Maine. Licensed to Augusta, Maine, USA, the station serves the Augusta-Waterville area. The station is currently owned by Blueberry Broadcasting....

 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

WTOS-FM

WTOS-FM , known as "The Mountain of Pure Rock", is an FM radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine whose studios are located in Augusta.-History:...

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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

The War Room with Quinn and Rose

Quinn and Rose is a conservative political talk show. It is syndicated, by Clear Channel Radio from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show is done by Jim Quinn with "color commentary" from a woman known as Radio Rose . It is broadcast from 6 A.M. to 9 A.M., while some affiliates replay the first hour...

", Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck

Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...

, Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...

, Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey

David L. Ramsey III is an American financial author, radio host, television personality, and motivational speaker.Ramsey's syndicated radio program The Dave Ramsey Show is promoted with a tagline that "It's about your life and your money," and it is heard on over 450 radio stations throughout the...

, Lars Larson

Lars Larson

Lars Larson is a conservative U.S. talk radio show host based in Oregon. Larson hosts a national talk radio show, which as of 2009 is syndicated by Compass Media Networks...

, and "Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM is a North American late-night syndicated radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics, but most frequently ones that relate to either the paranormal or conspiracy theories. It was created by Art Bell and is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks. The program currently...

". WCME also carried University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

 football and local sports.

Previously WCME carried the morning show of WTOS-FM

WTOS-FM

WTOS-FM , known as "The Mountain of Pure Rock", is an FM radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine whose studios are located in Augusta.-History:...

 to fill a void in the mid-coast/Portland

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 area when local jazz station WJZP-LP

WJZP-LP

WJZP-LP is a low-power broadcast radio station in Portland, Maine, USA. The station currently broadcasts a community-based Smooth Jazz format, The station has been on the air since 2005....

 went on the air on the same frequency as WTOS. The station also carried Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

baseball off and on throughout the early 2000s.

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