| WGAN | |
| City of license | Portland, Maine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Portland |
| Slogan | "Maines #1 For News + Talk" |
| Frequency | 560 kHz |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5000 Watts |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Owner | Saga Communications of New England |
| Sister stations | WMGX, WPOR, WYNZ, WZAN, WVAE/WBAE |
| Website | wgan.com |
WGAN is an American AM radio station licensed to Portland, Maine and owned by Saga Communications. A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting is the community that a Radio station or Television station Portland is the largest city in the US state of Maine and the County seat of Cumberland County. A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit Time. The hertz (symbol Hz) is a measure of Frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per Second. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues Nominal power is a Measurement of a Mediumwave Radio station 's output used in the United States. The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations WMGX is a radio station in the United States, licensed to Portland, Maine. WPOR is a radio station in Portland Maine that broadcasts a Country music format WYNZ on air as Big Hits Y1009, is an FM Radio station licensed to Westbrook Maine and broadcasting at 100 WZAN (970 AM, "The Station for Men" is a Radio station broadcasting Hot talk format WBAE and WVAE are Radio stations that serve Southern Maine with an Adult standards format provided by Dial Global 's Adult Standards A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Portland is the largest city in the US state of Maine and the County seat of Cumberland County. Saga Communications is a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States. It is located at 560 on the AM band. The current format is News/Talk, with local news being provided by a small local staff and national news provided by CBS and CNN Radio. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner
The station was founded in 1938 by Guy Gannett Publishing, which was then the owner of the Portland Press Herald newspaper. Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful The Portland Press Herald (and Maine Sunday Telegram; collectively known as The Portland Newspapers) publish Daily newspapers every WGAN gained a companion television station, WGAN-TV, in 1956; it was later renamed WGME. WGME-TV, channel 13 is the CBS -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine.