{"id":25353,"date":"2025-02-18T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25353"},"modified":"2025-02-18T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:20:25","slug":"radio-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/radio-bangor\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e1e1e1&amp;d=february_march_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=50&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Six characters in search of an audience.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Bruce Pratt<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">For a dozen years, my radio show \u201cSports Lit 101\u201d on <strong><em>Downtown with Rich Kimball<\/em><\/strong> aired on WZON AM 620 Bangor, est. 1926, one of Maine\u2019s oldest radio stations. On New Year\u2019s Eve 2024, after 98 years, the transmitter went silent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The sister signal WKIT FM, slated to shut down as well, was sold just weeks ago by novelist Stephen King to area businessmen Greg Hawes and Jeff Solari at a price that keeps the signal local despite rumors of much larger offers from corporate radio conglomerates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RadioBangor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RadioBangor.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RadioBangor-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RadioBangor-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering WZON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1494],"class_list":["post-25353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-february-march-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25388,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions\/25388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}