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| Branding | WBGR |
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First air date | August 28, 1995 (1995-08-28) |
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Call sign meaning | IATA airport code forBangor International Airport |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 33959 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 1 kW |
| HAAT | 68 m (223 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°52′44″N68°52′55.7″W / 44.87889°N 68.882139°W /44.87889; -68.882139 |
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Public license information | LMS |
WBGR-LD (channel 18) is alow-power television station licensed to bothBangor andDedham, Maine, United States, affiliated withMeTV. The station is owned by James McLeod, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Ohio Street inGlenburn, Maine.
WBGR first went on the air on August 28, 1995,[2] as Bangor'sWB affiliate.[3] It was the first commercial UHF station in the market and the first new commercial station locally built in over 30 years. In 1998, The WB createda cable-only channel for its smaller markets (known as "WBAN" in Bangor);[4] while WBGR initially retained its WB affiliation, it also added programming from the Pax (nowIon Television) network, which launched at that time.[2] In 1999, WBGR phased out WB programming and added more Pax programming; by this point, it was one of five over-the-air small-market WB affiliates.[5] The change left Bangor without a WB affiliate, asAdelphia Cable did not launch "WBAN" at the time.[4]
WBGR has aired local programming from local churches, civic organizations and high school sports at various times during its history. The station also carried late afternooncollege football games fromCBS, asWABI-TV (channel 5) chose to preempt football in order to air a local 6 p.m. newscast. WBGR also airedBoston Red Sox baseball games in 2002, syndicated fromWFXT. Daytime programming was filled with family-oriented programming as well asreligious programming from several leading Bible teachers. In 2010,Liberty University's Flames Sports Network[6] began airing live sporting events, as well as daily convocation services.
In April 2014, WBGR-LP became an affiliate of MeTV.[7]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 18.1 | 480i | 4:3 | WBGR | MeTV |
| 18.2 | Heroes & Icons |
The station was issued its license for digital operation on March 12, 2015. By early September 2019, WBGR-LD commenced digital operations, adding Heroes & Icons andAntenna TV programming to their seconddigital subchannel. By November of that year, RabbitEars.Info listed six new feeds (LD3 through LD8) for WBGR-LD, those new feeds remaining blank at first.
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