manassas virginia that held the call sign wezr from 1968 to 1985 see wezr defunct and wjfk fm . wezr fm city norway maine broadcast area oxford county maine branding maine s big z slogan more music . better variety . frequency 92.7 mhz first air date december 12 1970 1970 12 12 1 format hot adult contemporary erp 5 200 watts haat 224 meters class c3 facility id 67698 transmitter coordinates 44 17 47 n 70 37 5 w 44.29639 n 70.61806 w 44.29639 ; 70.61806 former callsigns wnwy fm 1970 1976 woxo 1976 1981 woxo fm 1981 2016 former frequencies 105.5 mhz 1970 1974 owner mountain valley broadcasting inc. sister stations wezr woxo woxo fm wtme webcast listen live website www.z1055.com wezr fm 92.7 fm ; maine s big z is a radio station licensed to serve norway maine united states . established in 1970 as wnwy fm the station is owned by mountain valley broadcasting inc. 2 it broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format as a simulcast of lewiston sister station wezr . history edit wezr fm signed on december 12 1970 1 as wnwy fm under the ownership of oxford hills radio communications . 3 the station originally operated on 105.5 fm with a middle of the road format . by 1974 wnwy had moved to 92.7 fm 4 a change made to accommodate the move of skowhegan station wtos fm from 107.1 to 105.1 5 and was programming contemporary music country music pop and gold . 4 last logo as woxo fm used until august 1 2016 richard gleason the general manager of wskw and wtos in skowhegan bought wnwy fm for 120 000 in 1975 ; 6 7 the following year the call letters were changed to woxo 8 to reflect the station s service to oxford county and the oxford hills . 7 by 1978 woxo s top 40 format was 80 percent simulcast with wxiv 1450 am in south paris which gleason acquired in 1976 . 9 in 1981 woxo dropped the top 40 format in favor of country music after gleason conducted a survey that found that a country formatted station would be highly rated . 7 woxo fm s country format was simulcast on 1450 am which had taken on the woxo call letters 5 until the early 1980s when the am station shifted to religious programming ; in 1986 that station changed its call letters to wktq . 5 in 1990 gleason bought wtbm 100.7 fm in mexico ; 10 that station then became a simulcast of woxo fm . 5 woxo fm s country format moved to wktq which took on the woxo call letters on august 1 2016 . concurrently the station changed its call letters to wezr fm and began simulcasting the hot adult contemporary format of lewiston sister station wezr expanding that station s reach into the oxford hills region ; the woxo fm call letters were transferred to wtbm which continues to air woxo s country music programming . 11 12 references edit a b broadcasting & cable yearbook 1999 pdf . 1999 . p. d 200 . retrieved march 11 2015 . wezr fm facility record . united states federal communications commission audio division . broadcasting yearbook 1972 pdf . 1972 . p. b 93 . retrieved august 11 2016 . a b broadcasting yearbook 1975 pdf . 1975 . p. c 84 . retrieved august 11 2016 . a b c d fybush scott . maine radio history 1971 1996 . the archives at bostonradio.org . retrieved august 11 2016 . changing hands pdf . broadcasting . august 11 1975 . p. 30 . retrieved august 11 2016 . a b c marois dan 2016 2017 . hitting the airwaves for over 40 years . oxford hills magazine . pp. 28 9 . retrieved august 11 2016 . call letters pdf . broadcasting . march 8 1976 . p. 68 . retrieved august 11 2016 . broadcasting yearbook 1978 pdf . 1978 . pp . c 96 7 . retrieved august 27 2016 . changing hands pdf . broadcasting . october 8 1990 . p. 64 . retrieved august 27 2016 . crosby christopher august 1 2016 . radio station woxo changes frequencies . sun journal . retrieved august 2 2016 . venta lance july 29 2016 . wezr & woxo lewiston on the move . radioinsight . retrieved august 27 2016 . external links edit official website query the fcc s fm station database for wezr radio locator information on wezr query nielsen audio s fm station database for wezr v t e radio stations in the lewiston auburn maine market by am frequency 560 900 1240 1470 by fm frequency 88.1 89.3 90.1 91.5 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.9 94.9 95.5 96.3 97.9 98.9 99.9 100.7 101.3 101.9 102.9 103.7 104.3 105.9 107.5 by callsign wabk fm warx wbci wblm wclz wcme wezr wezr fm wfnk wgan whom wjbq wjjb fm wlam wlob fm wmea wmey wmgx wmme fm wmsj wpkq woxo fm wpor wrbc wtht wvqm maine radio markets augusta waterville bangor portland other maine radio regions northern & downeast maine lewiston auburn see also list of radio stations in maine v t e adult contemporary radio stations in the state of maine stations wcme brunswick wcxu caribou wcxv van buren wcxx madawaska wezr lewiston wezr fm norway wfmx skowhegan wguy veazie whou fm houlton wksq ellsworth wnsx winter harbor wrmo millbridge wqsk madison wqss camden see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in maine this article about a radio station in maine is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wezr fm & oldid 736503169 categories radio stations in mainehot adult contemporary radio stations in the united statesoxford county maineradio stations established in 19701970 establishments in mainemaine radio station stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 august 2016 at 23 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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