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WGME-TV
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Portland, Maine
Branding WGME 13
News 13
Slogan Breaking News. Portland is the largest city in the US state of Maine and the County seat of Cumberland County. A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of
Breaking Weather.
Breaking Stories.
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)

Digital: 38 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
AccuWX TV (DT2)
Owner Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
(WGME Licensee, LLC)
First air date May 16, 1954
Call letters’ meaning We're
Gannett of
MainE
(for former owner Guy Gannett)
Former callsigns WGAN-TV (1954-1983)
Transmitter Power 295 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height 462 m (analog)
465 m (digital)
Facility ID 25683
Transmitter Coordinates 43°55′28.5″N, 70°29′26.7″W
Website www.wgme.com

WGME-TV, channel 13, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Portland, Maine, owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The Local AccuWeather Channel is a 24-hour weather-oriented commercially-sponsored broadcast/cable television network owned and operated by AccuWeather, Inc Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property The Sinclair Broadcast Group ( SBG) is the operator of the largest number of local Television stations in the United States with a total of 57 stations Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area Portland is the largest city in the US state of Maine and the County seat of Cumberland County. The Sinclair Broadcast Group ( SBG) is the operator of the largest number of local Television stations in the United States with a total of 57 stations Its transmitter is located on Brown Hill west of Raymond. Raymond is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The station has studios on Northport Drive in Portland.

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WGME's tower

The 493. 5-meter (1,619 ft) tall transmission tower of WGME, situated in Raymond, was built in 1959. It was, according to the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records, the world's tallest architectural structure in those days. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U While determining the world's tallest structure has generally been straightforward the definition of the world's tallest building or the It was surpassed by KFVS-TV's tower in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1960. KFVS-TV, channel 12 is the CBS -affiliated Television station for southeast Missouri, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois KFVS TV Mast (also Raycom America Tower Cape Girardeau is a Guyed mast that is 1677 feet (511 However, it remained the tallest structure in Maine until the erection of WMTW's tower in 2002. WMTW, channel 8 is the ABC -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine that is licensed to Poland Spring

History

Channel 13's first broadcast was on May 16, 1954 under the call sign of WGAN-TV. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) It was owned by Guy Gannett Communications (no relation to the much larger Gannett corporation that now owns rival WCSH) along with WGAN radio (560 AM and 103 FM) and the Portland Press-Herald). Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States. WCSH, channel 6 is the NBC -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine. WGAN is an American AM radio station licensed to Portland Maine and owned by Saga Communications. The Portland Press Herald (and Maine Sunday Telegram; collectively known as The Portland Newspapers) publish Daily newspapers every When the radio stations were sold in 1984, the WGAN call letters went with them. WGAN-TV then changed its call sign to the current WGME-TV. It remained the flagship station of Guy Gannett Communications until the company sold most of its television stations, including WGME, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1998. At one point, the station had offered The Tube, a 24-hour digital music video channel, on its second digital subchannel. The Tube Music Network was a Music video network carried on free-to-air Satellite television, select digital television subchannels and Digital cable However, it was dropped.

News operation

The station's newscasts led the ratings in Portland until the late-1980s when WCSH became number one. During the final years of Guy Gannett ownership in the 1990s, WGME launched weekend morning news that featured many live shots and in-studio interviews. The effort was abandoned due to poor ratings. Today's ratings show a resurgence in favor of WGME in several time slots often leading to anchors and station promotions touting "Portland's #1 5 P. M. Newscast" or "Maine's Fastest Growing Newscast". However, as of the February 2008 ratings period, WCSH ranked number one in each time slot and recorded its largest share of viewers in ten years.

In addition to its main studios, WGME operates an Lewiston / Auburn Bureau on Main Street in Lewiston (across the street from WCSH's bureau). Lewiston, in Androscoggin County, is the second-largest city in the U Auburn is a city in and the County seat of Androscoggin County, Maine, United States A second bureau is in Augusta near the Maine State House. Augusta is the Capital of the US state of Maine, County seat of Kennebec County, and Center of population The Maine State House, located in Augusta Maine, United States, was completed in 1832 one year after Augusta became the capital of Maine. WGME is one of only a few stations owned by Sinclair that airs a nightly newscast. Most of the others were abandoned in 2005 when the company shut down News Central. News Central was a primetime newscast on Sinclair television stations in the United States, mixing locally produced news with nationally Although WGME (or any of the other Portland television stations) does not own or operate a weather radar of its own, the station uses live, NOAA National Weather Service radar data from several regional sites. A weather radar is a type of Radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion estimate its type ( Rain The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the The National Weather Service ( NWS) once known as the Weather Bureau is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration This data is presented in a forecasting system on-air that is known as "Doppler 4000 Storm Tracker".

Starting on February 5, 2007, WGME began to produce a weeknight 35-minute and weekend 30 minute 10 o'clock newscast for Fox affiliate WPFO. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. WPFO, channel 23 is the Fox -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine that is licensed to Waterville. Known on-air as News 13 on Fox, it competes with the 10 o'clock news that airs on CW affiliate WPXT. The CW Television Network ( The CW) is a Television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-2007 television season. WPXT is the CW -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine. That news is co-produced by Maine's NBC affiliates, WCSH & WLBZ. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's WCSH, channel 6 is the NBC -affiliated Television station for Portland Maine. WLBZ, channel 2 is the NBC -affiliated Television station for Bangor Maine. The WGME news on WPFO is possible because of a news share agreement between the two stations. In early-April of 2008, Hannaford Supermarkets pulled their ads from the station. According to the company, WGME aggressively reported on the security breach that occurred at the company.

News team

The station's weeknight 6 o'clock anchors.
The station's weeknight 6 o'clock anchors.
WGME's chief meteorologist.
WGME's chief meteorologist.

Anchors

Storm Team 13 AccuWeather Meteorologists

Sports

Reporters

Past personalities

Logos

WGME logo used from mid-1980s until April 14, 1991.

WGME "NewsChannel 13" logo used from April 15, 1991 until late-1999. It is similar to the logo used by KSAZ in the late-1980s.

WGME logo used April 3, 2006 to the present.

External links

Preceded by
KOBR-TV Tower		 World's tallest structure

1,619 ft (493. KOBR-TV Tower (also called KSWS-TV Tower is a 4907 meter (1610 ft high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and Television programs in Caprock 5 m)
1959-1960

 Succeeded by
KFVS TV Mast
KFVS TV Mast (also Raycom America Tower Cape Girardeau is a Guyed mast that is 1677 feet (511
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