Six characters in search of an audience.

Story by Bruce Pratt

For a dozen years, my radio show “Sports Lit 101” on Downtown with Rich Kimball aired on WZON AM 620 Bangor, est. 1926, one of Maine’s oldest radio stations. On New Year’s Eve 2024, after 98 years, the transmitter went silent.

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.

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