WCLZ

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Radio station in Maine, United States

WCLZ

* North Yarmouth, Maine
* United States

Broadcast area| Portland, Maine
Frequency| 98.9 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding| 98.9 WCLZ
Programming
Format| Adult album alternative
Affiliations| United Stations Radio Networks
Ownership
Owner|

* Saga Communications
* (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)

Sister stations

| WMGX, WYNZ, WPOR, WVAE, WBAE, WGAN, WZAN
History

First air date

| April 11, 1965 (as WCME-FM)

Former call signs

* WCME-FM (1965–1973)
* WKXA-FM (1973–1984)
* WCLZ (1984–1988)
* WCLZ-FM (1988–1999)
* WTPN (1999–2001)

Technical information[1]

Licensing authority

| FCC
Facility ID| 56569
Class| B
ERP| 48,000 watts
HAAT| 122 meters (400 ft)
Links

Public license information

* Public file
* LMS

Webcast| Listen live
Website| www.989wclz.com

WCLZ (98.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to North Yarmouth, Maine, with studios located in Portland, Maine. Since 2001 WCLZ has been broadcasting an adult album alternative format. It is under ownership of Saga Communications.

## Programming

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WCLZ operates 24 hours a day with an adult album alternative format.

## History

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The 98.9 frequency debuted on April 11, 1965, as WCME-FM, licensed to Brunswick, Maine about 30 miles north of Portland. The station began as a simulcast of WCME (900 AM). The stations played middle of the road (music) and aired local information. The WCME-AM-FM call sign eventually became WKXA-AM-FM. By 1980, WKXA-FM was a full-time country music station with an 80,000 watt signal which was easily heard in Portland and was giving established country station WPOR (1490 AM, now WBAE, and 101.9 FM) some competition. The WCLZ call letters were installed on 98.9 in 1984, when the station picked up an adult contemporary format. Several years later, the station adopted the adult album alternative (AAA) format for which it is known today.

The WCLZ call letters remained on 98.9 until 1999, when the station was sold from Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting to Citadel Communications. Following the sale, the WCLZ call letters and format moved to 95.5 (now WPPI), and 98.9 became WTPN "98.9 The Point", with a modern hot adult contemporary format. The call letters and format of WCLZ returned to the frequency in 2001, after 95.5 became WJJB-FM and began simulcasting sports programming from WJAE (1440 AM, now WRED) and WJJB (900 AM, the former and present WCME).

WCLZ was sold to Saga Communications in 2007 after the FCC required Citadel to sell two Portland stations due to the company's acquisition of ABC Radio.[2] The other station sold was WCYI (93.9 FM, now WARX) in Lewiston, Maine, which for a time simulcast WCLZ, when held in The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, the trust Citadel set up to sell the two Portland stations, as well as several other stations across the United States in order to get under the market cap (WCYI would be separately sold to the Educational Media Foundation). Several of WCLZ's shows moved to WBLM and other Citadel owned stations before the transfer into the trust.

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WCLZ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. ^ "Maine News Updates". Archived from the original on July 22, 2012.

## External links

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* 98.9 WCLZ - Official website
*   * Facility details for Facility ID 56569 (WCLZ) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
* WCLZ in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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Radio stations in the Portland metropolitan area (Maine)

By AM frequency|

* 560
* 730
* 870
* 900
* 970
* 1220
* 1310
* 1400
* 1440
* 1490

By FM frequency|

* 88.3
* 88.5
* 89.3
* 90.1
* 90.9
* 91.9
* 92.1
* 93.1
* 94.3
* 94.91
* 95.5
* 95.9
* 96.3
* 97.9
* 98.9
* 99.3
* 99.9
* 100.9
* 101.9
* 102.9
* 103.71
* 104.7
* 105.9
* 106.3
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| LPFM|

* 107.9

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Translators|

* 91.3
* 92.5
* 93.5
* 96.9
* 98.5
* 99.5
* 100.5
* 101.5
* 103.3
* 104.1
* 104.3
* 105.1
* 105.3
* 105.5
* 107.1

Digital radio
by frequency & subchannel|

* 93.1-1
* 93.1-2
* 93.1-3
* 98.9-1

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* WCLZ
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* WHOM1
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* WLOB
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* WMEA
* WMEK
* WMGX
* HD2
* HD3
* WMPG
* WMSJ
* WPEI
* WPKC-FM
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* WPOR
* WPPI
* WRED
* WRKJ
* WSEW
* WTHT
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* WWSF
* WXTP
* WYAR
* WYFP
* WYNZ
* WZAN

Defunct|

* WJZF-LP (97.1 FM)
* WEBB
* WMNE

Nearby regions
Augusta-Waterville
Concord and the Lakes Region
Lewiston-Auburn
Mid Coast Maine
North Conway/Fryeburg
Northeast Kingdom and Northern New Hampshire
Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester

See also
List of radio stations in Maine

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Notes
1\. Transmits from Mount Washington in New Hampshire.

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Saga Communications, Inc.

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* Illinois Radio Network
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