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About WMPG
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| This is the home of WMPG: 90.9 FM |
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| Southern Maine Community Radio from USM |
* WMPG has powered-up
to full power! *
The three-year-long
WMPG Power-Up Project was completed back in December of 2011. The WMPG transmitting tower was relocated from Gorham
to the Westbrook / Falmouth town line, and the Power-Up-Switch to WMPG's more powerful transmitter was thrown! Broadcasting
at 4500 watts in stereo, WMPG is now transmitting at more than four times its previous power level from a transmitting
tower that is closer to the Portland metro region. The WMPG 90.9 FM signal is now reaching almost all of Southern Maine,
with a total potential audience of over a half-million listeners! Our signal can even be heard in parts of
Eastern and Southern New Hampshire!
In addition
to receiving a stronger and cleaner WMPG signal throughout the entire Greater Portland metro region, you should now be
able to receive the WMPG signal to the southwest into the Kennebunks, Biddeford, Saco and Sanford; to the northwest into North
Windham and the Sebago Lakes region; to the north into Gray, New Gloucester and the metro Lewiston-Auburn
region; to the northeast into Freeport, Brunswick, Bath, Topsham, Harpswell, Boothbay Harbor; and to the east into
the many islands of Casco Bay.
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| WMPG's on-air studio is where the action is |
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| Thanks to WMPG's DjPj |
WMPG at 90.9 FM currently creates its unique radio programming from the
Portland, Maine, campus of the University of Southern Maine. WMPG's radio signal blankets the greater
Portland metro region & most of Southern Maine with some of the finest, unique and eclectic programming found anywhere
on your radio dial. WMPG also streams its digital signal on-line. You can think of WMPG as Southern Maine's final fortress for free-form radio.
This means that each of WMPG's volunteer-Djs has
the freedom to present a "talk show" format, a "live
music" format, or a "music show" format. Regardless
of a show's format, each volunteer DJ makes a creative presentation that
is meant to provide a form of local entertainment that is not available anywhere else in this market.
WMPG has been broadcasting since
1973! WMPG's transmitter broadcasts with 4500 watts in stereo at 90.9 FM from high atop Blackstrap Hill on the Westbrook/Falmouth town
line. This transmitter covers the greater Portland metro region and most of Southern Maine: from The Kennebunks, Biddeford-Saco and
Sanford to the southwest; to Windham, Bridgton and the Sebago Lakes region to the northwest; to Gray, New Gloucester and the
metro Lewiston-Auburn regions to the north; to Bath, Brunswick, Topsham, Freeport, Harpswell and the lower Mid-Coast region
to the northeast; and the islands of Casco Bay to the east.
With its on-air studio located on the Portland
campus of the University of Southern Maine, WMPG is a non-profit, non-commercial community radio station. Being a community
radio station means that its volunteer Djs (community members, USM students & high school students) are allowed to program
their own radio shows on a weekly basis. A show's format, the music selections, and a Djs on-air personality are all
left to the discretion and the imagination of each Dj. This combination results in a diverse mix of interesting,
eclectic and unique radio programs.
When you tune in to WMPG, you
will typically hear a well-thought-out show - including well-informed and interesting talk-show guests or carefully
prepared playlists of music. From new artists and their groundbreaking songs to vintage, obscure and long-gone
& forgotten favorites, you'll hear it all - presented in varying styles by the non-professional, but entertaining, well-trained
and personable volunteer Djs at WMPG.
Remember what WMPG's Old
Time Rock and Roll Rebel Bill Audette says: "Tuning in and listening to WMPG is comparable to looking
for and finding buried treasure." 1) You know where to look (X marks the spot at 90.9 FM and on-line at www.wmpg.org), 2) you don't quite know what to expect when you find a treasure (a WMPG radio program), and 3) that treasure (the
radio show) may or may not be what you're looking for. If you don't like what you hear, tune in WMPG
again in an hour or two because the format will have changed - hopefully, to your liking. This is what helps to make
WMPG such a treasure in the Greater Portland & Southern Maine region!
WMPG is now your Southern
Maine Community Radio Station!
The Night Train Show -
now cruising from
1:30 to
3 PM all over Greater Portland and Southern Maine on
WMPG, 90.9 FM -
and also around the world on-line.
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