to brunswick maine . for station in boothbay harbor maine that used the wcme call letters until april 2009 see wtqx . wcme city brunswick maine broadcast area mid coast of maine branding radio 9 wcme slogan midcoast maine s news station frequency 900 khz first air date december 16 1955 format adult contemporary full service power 700 watts daytime 26 watts nighttime 1 class d facility id 56570 transmitter coordinates 43 54 41 n 70 1 29 w 43.91139 n 70.02472 w 43.91139 ; 70.02472 wcme 1 former callsigns wcme 1955 1973 wkxa 1973 1988 wclz 1988 1998 wjjb 1998 2008 wwbk 2008 2009 affiliations westwood one news owner james b. bleikamp webcast wcme webstream website wcme online wcme 900 khz is a commercial am radio station licensed to brunswick maine and serving maine s mid coast . established in 1955 the station is owned by veteran radio news anchor and talk host jim bleikamp and programs a locally oriented full service oldies soft rock radio format emphasizing news and local events . 2 wcme s studios are in the fort andross complex in brunswick . 3 wcme s transmitter is located along u.s. route 1 near durham road in brunswick . 4 wcme operates at 700 watts by day but must reduce power to 26 watts at night because 900 khz is a clear channel frequency and wcme can not interfere with more powerful stations at 900 . wcme carries westwood one news at the beginning of most hours . history edit wcme signed on december 16 1955 under the ownership of westminster broadcasting corporation . 5 6 7 central maine broadcasting system acquired the station in 1964 8 and launched a sister station on 98.9 fm on april 11 1965 . 6 the wcme stations were sold to wcme inc. in 1969 9 and to condit broadcasting in 1972 . 10 by 1973 wcme and wcme fm simulcast a contemporary format ; 11 later that year the call letters were changed to wkxa . 12 the following year the wkxa stations were sold to amcom corporation and implemented a mix of talk and mor . 13 in 1977 the simulcast was dissolved and wkxa flipped to top 40 ; 14 a year later the station reverted to simulcasting with wkxa fm by then a country station . 15 independent programming again resumed in 1980 this time with a news talk format ; 6 this continued after windward communications bought the station in 1982 16 but by 1984 wkxa had adopted an adult contemporary format separate from that on the newly renamed 17 wclz 18 which gave way by 1987 to a return of the country format . 19 hawthorne communications acquired the station in 1988 and changed its call letters to wclz 20 to reflect the resumption of the simulcast with wclz fm ; 21 in 1990 the station again dropped the simulcast affiliating with the business radio network . 22 this format continued as the stations were sold to the eastern radio company in 1990 23 and to riverside broadcasting in 1992 . 24 the station subsequently returned to simulcasting wclz fm by then an adult album alternative station 25 but separate programming was restored to the am station again in 1995 this time with home shopping . 26 27 in 1998 riverside broadcasting sold the wclz stations to fuller jeffrey broadcasting with riverside owner mike waggoner citing the company s local ownership . 28 co owner j. j. jeffrey a native of brunswick had started his career at wcme . 29 that december the station changed its call letters to wjjb 30 and after a brief return to the wclz fm simulcast 31 the station became a simulcast of sports station wjae in 1999 . 32 fuller jeffrey sold their fm stations to citadel broadcasting several months later 33 but j. j. jeffrey retained wjae and wjjb as the first stations in his atlantic coast radio group . 34 wjjb changed its call letters to wwbk on march 18 2008 ; a month later the station was sold to bob bittner for 27 000 . 35 three months later on july 19 2008 wwbk was forced off the air as the owner of the station s transmission facility saga communications which acquired the site after buying wclz from citadel in 2007 indicated that it no longer wanted wwbk on the site . 36 the station announced its intention to move its transmitter to a location at or near the transmitter of sister station wjto . 36 bittner had planned to implement a music format separate from wjto s adult standards and oldies programming . 35 bob bittner sold wwbk to james bleikamp in march 2009 37 with the sale being finalized on may 18 ; 38 the next day the station changed its call letters back to wcme which had recently been given up by wtqx . 39 on may 23 2009 wcme resumed broadcasting 40 under special temporary authority from the wjto site ; this was necessary because the station could only operate at 176 watts during daytime hours from the site to protect wghm in nashua new hampshire below the minimum daytime power for licensed am stations of 250 watts . 41 after the wjto site was deemed to not be optimal for regular operation wcme signed off once again on may 25 . 40 wcme again resumed broadcasting on april 21 2010 42 operating under special temporary authority from a temporary transmitter at fort andross as the station seeks a new permanent transmitter with the station planning to reach full power in fall 2010 . 43 however it again left the air on may 7 after the transmitter was found to be interfering with fire alarm telephone and computer systems in the building . 44 the station was unable to resolve the interference 45 and continued to search for a permanent transmitter location ; 29 46 in the meantime to preserve the broadcast license wcme again temporarily broadcast from the wjto site 47 on april 16 2011 48 49 and from april 25 26 2011 . 50 51 the station finally received approval from the brunswick town council to build a tower on old portland road in west brunswick in october 2011 . 52 after operating from the wjto site once more 53 from april 14 15 2012 54 55 wcme signed on from the new tower on october 17 2012 programming an adult contemporary format focusing on the 1970 s to 1990 s while it hires its staff ; the 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