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1321: 1288: 36: 467:, which Gleason acquired in 1976. In 1981, WOXO dropped the top 40 format in favor of country music after Gleason conducted a survey that found that a country-formatted station would be highly rated. WOXO-FM's country format was simulcast on 1450 AM, which had taken on the WOXO call letters, until the early 1980s, when the AM station shifted to 479: 502:, and the WOXO-FM call letters were transferred to WTBM, which continued to air WOXO's country music programming. In April 2019, WEZR-FM returned to simulcasting country music with WOXO-FM, with the simulcast of WEZR's hot adult contemporary programming moving to WOXO (AM) (now 529:. The stations had been up for sale following the death of owner Dick Gleason in February 2019. A sale of the Gleason Media Group stations to Bennett Radio Group was announced in May 2020. 486:
WOXO-FM's country format moved to WKTQ, which took on the WOXO call letters, on August 1, 2016. Concurrently, the station changed its call letters to WEZR-FM and began simulcasting the
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WOXO-FM, along with its sister stations, went off the air March 29, 2020, citing financial considerations that included expected reduction in advertising revenue attributed to
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simulcast in 2021). On September 27, 2019, the WOXO-FM call sign was moved back to 92.7, with 100.7 briefly taking on the WEZR-FM call sign before changing to WRMO-FM.
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Bennett Radio Group's purchase, at a price of $ 300,000, was consummated on August 5, 2020. On August 10, 2020, WOXO-FM returned to the airwaves by its new owners.
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WOXO-FM signed on December 12, 1970, as WNWY-FM under the ownership of Oxford Hills Radio Communications. The station originally operated on 105.5 FM with a
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and WTOS in Skowhegan, bought WNWY-FM for $ 120,000 in 1975; the following year, the call letters were changed to WOXO to reflect the station's service to
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programming; in 1986, that station changed its call letters to WKTQ. In 1990, Gleason bought WTBM (100.7 FM) in
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format. By 1974, WNWY had moved to 92.7 FM, a change made to accommodate the move of
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from 107.1 to 105.1, and was programming contemporary music,
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format was 80-percent simulcast with WXIV (1450 AM) in
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WJFK-FM

Norway, Maine
Lewiston–Auburn
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WEZR
WPNO
WIGY-FM
WIGY
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44°17′47.2″N 70°37′3.2″W / 44.296444°N 70.617556°W / 44.296444; -70.617556
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