Fox Sports Maine

This article is about the sports radio simulcast in Central Maine. For their sister station in Bangor, Maine formerly known on-air as Fox Sports Maine 910, see WABK (AM).
Fox Sports Maine
(WIGY/WVOM/WFAU)
City WIGY: Madison, Maine
WFAU: Gardiner, Maine
WVOM: Rockland, Maine
Broadcast area Central Maine
Slogan Three Towers of Sports Power
Frequency WIGY: 97.5 MHz
WFAU: 1280 kHz
WVOM: 1450 kHz
Format Sports
Power WFAU: 5,000 watts
WVOM: 1,000 watts
ERP WIGY: 6,000 watts
HAAT WIGY: 100 meters
Class WIGY: A
WFAU: B
WVOM: C
Facility ID WIGY: 28684
WFAU: 68296
WVOM: 57300
Affiliations Boston Red Sox Radio Network, Dial Global, Boston Celtics Radio Network, Black Bear Sports Network
Owner Blueberry Broadcasting
Website foxsportsmaine.com

Fox Sports Maine was a network of sports/talk stations owned by Blueberry Broadcasting carrying Fox Sports Radio. Located in Central Maine, it comprised WFAU (1280 AM) in Gardiner, Maine, WVOM (1450 AM) in Rockland, Maine, and WIGY (97.5 FM) in Madison, Maine. Its studios were located in Augusta, Maine. The network also carried some CBS Sports Radio programming.

Former programming

Fox Sports Radio

CBS Sports Radio

Imus in the Morning

Boston Red Sox Baseball (Part of the Red Sox Radio Network)

Westwood One NFL football

The Jim Rome Show

Boston Celtics Basketball

ACC Basketball

Select games of the Maine Black Bears

What's Brewin' Afternoon sports talk show, carried from October 2006-March 2007

MLB on ESPN Radio

Portland Sea Dogs Baseball

History

See also: WJYE (AM)

Previous to its sports trimulcast. 97.5 WQSK (then WIGY) and 1280 WFAU simulcasted the (then) sports format of WSKW and WHQO (now WFMX). WQSK also simulcasted WGUY Dexter, Maine and WKCG in the 1990s. WFAU was an Adult Standards format and WRKD (now WVOM) was a talk station carrying Rush Limbaugh, however for a time they were affiliated with ESPN Radio. The station also has carried New York Giants football, but elected to carry Westwood One's football coverage for the 2007 NFL season.

End of simulcast

In the summer of 2013 owner Blueberry Broadcasting dismantled the network, selling off WFAU (which became WJYE in 2014), switching WRKD (by then known as WVOM) to a simulcast of WVOM-FM/WVQM and WIGY (which would change call letters to WQSK) to a simulcast of WQSS/WKSQ.


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