Heritage AM Station in Maine To Close Down?

[Laurence Glavin]

According to Allaccess.com, WAEI-AM 910 in Bangor, ME has requested approval to go silent for the time being until
a buyer can be found, and if not, then turn in the license. WAEI is the former WABI-AM, a 5,000-watt fulltime
facility in the second largest market in the state that came into being in 1924. Allaccess lists STAs from all
over the country every day. It's rare for an AM in New England to show up for some reason. In the past, the
only AMs to go away completely were the "EB" twins WREB-AM 930 in Holyoke, MA and WHEB-AM 750 in
Portsmouth, NH, the latter opting to go to FM exclusively. Then there's WSCV-AM 1050 (later adopting a
plethora of call letters and formats) in Peterborough, NH that morphed into WSRA-AM 650. There must be
some broadcaster up there that could find some use for a middle-of-the-dial 5K station.