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Bangor Interracial Chorus Performs Early To Bed
Full text linkThe station log for WLBZ Radio noted that this broadcast included this song along with two others, recorded January 23, 1955: Bangor Interracial Chorus, Wm. [William] Cupp, director; Harold Annis, accompanist.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1055/thumbnail.jp
Operation Progress: History of WLBZ and the Move from Main Street to Broadway
Full text linkA program highlighting 33 years of WLBZ radio station history and celebrating the move to new, modern offices on outer Broadway. Produced in 1960.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1186/thumbnail.jp
Station Log, January 19-February 4, 1932
Full text linkLog sheets and operating logs for WLBZ Radio in Bangor, Maine, for the dates of January 29 to February 4, 1932. Log sheets include notes on programs that aired. The operating log includes the time the carrier goes on, the time program begins, the time program ends, and the time the carrier wave goes off. Columns provided places to note the time, plate number, plate voltage, plate current, antenna current, frequency check, temperature, and interruptions during the broadcast day.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1010/thumbnail.jp
Docking the ESSO Bridgeport
Full text linkIrv Hunter of WLBZ Radio in Bangor, Maine, describes the docking of the tanker Esso Bridgeport, as assisted by the tug boat Walter Ross in 1949. The tanker was arriving at Webber Oil Company\u27s new tank facility in Bucksport, Maine.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1004/thumbnail.jp
Station Log, March 5-11, 1931
Full text linkThe operating log for WLBZ Radio in Bangor, Maine, for the dates of March 5 to 11, 1931. The log notes the time the carrier goes on, the time program begins, the time program ends, and the time the carrier wave goes off. Columns provide places to note the time, plate voltage, plate current, antenna current, frequency check, temperature, and interruptions during the broadcast day.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1009/thumbnail.jp
Fire Destroys Home of the Clements Family of Verona Island
Full text linkAn interview with members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clements of Verona Island, Maine, following a fire that destroyed the family home in 1952. Children in the family included Roy, Rilla, Oliver, Paul and Brian. Phillip W. Buxton, editor of the local Bucksport Free Press, had contacted WLBZ radio in the hopes of sharing information about the family\u27s loss to see if listeners would provide donations to help the family recover.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1090/thumbnail.jp
Story of Seth Noble and the Naming of Bangor, and Several Performances of the Hymn
Full text linkPaul Ford of WLBZ Radio narrates a program where Minister of the Hammond Street Congregational Church in Bangor, Reverend Edward G. Ernst, explains how Bangor got its name, by mistake, when Seth Noble mistakenly thought a clerk was asking the name of the hymn he was humming. WLBZ asked several area vocalists to perform the hymn. Recorded August 20, 1956.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1161/thumbnail.jp
ESSO Reporter\u27s 10th Anniversary on WLBZ
Full text linkIrv Hunter emceeing a review of ten years of the ESSO Reporter program on WLBZ Radio. Anthony Morin, Jr., of Bangor, a 10-year-old-boy (helped by his brother, Robert) reviews major events of the past ten years. WLBZ is congratulated by several ESSO officials on bringing up-to-the-minute news to the listening audience several times each day. Speakers include Verne Carrier, June Richdale, R. M. Gray, and A. E. Webber and Edward E. Guernsey. Recorded in 1949.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1060/thumbnail.jp
Maine Association of Broadcasters Oral History Interview, Early Days of WLBZ-Radio
Full text linkA transcript of an oral history interview conducted by Norman Gallant on behalf of the Maine Association of Broadcasters at the WLBZ-TV Studios on Mt. Hope Avenue in Bangor, Maine, March 27, 1985. Gallant talks with Ed Guernsey, Irving Hunter, Eddie Owen, Norm Lambert, Joe Eaton, John MacRae and Walter Dickson about the early days of radio in the State of Maine and the programs on WLBZ-Radio.
Handwritten notes and corrections were added by Barry Darling.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1058/thumbnail.jp
WLBZ Radio Station Records, 1926-2015
Full text linkWLBZ radio evolved from the passion of Thompson Guernsey, an amateur radio buff from Dover-Foxcroft who began experimenting with radio at the age of thirteen. As noted in a piece written by Fred Thompson in The History of Broadcasting in Maine: the First Fifty Years, Guernsey, considered by some to be an eccentric genius, began with homemade receivers and transmitters and an amateur license granted in 1921. After graduating from the University of Maine in 1926, Guernsey began operating WLBZ as a commercial broadcast station from Dover-Foxcroft.
In 1928, he moved his studio to the back of the Andrews Music House at 100 Main Street in Bangor and connected to a transmitter located at 861 Broadway. According to Thompson, Radio was new to everyone in 1926, and aside from WCSH in Portland, his was the only commercial radio station in the state.
Subsequent WLBZ general managers were Edward Guernsey, (1934-1974), Irving Hunter (1974-1976), Edward Owen, (1976-1978) and Barry Darling (1978-1983).
WLBZ Bangor was purchased by Acton Communications in 1978 and became WACZ. In 1983, the station was purchased again and became WZON, Zone Radio.
The collection includes administrative and marketing-related documents dated 1926 through the 1970s. Photographs and publications also document the station\u27s history. A bulk of the records are station traffic logs dating 1931-1957, providing information about programming, promotions, music, and technical data related to operation of the station\u27s transmitter.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1489/thumbnail.jp
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