WABI-TV

WABI-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central and Eastern Maine licensed to Bangor. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 (or virtual channel 5.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Peaked Mountain in Dixmont. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 705. DirecTV and Dish Network also carry the station. As of October 12, 2012, Dish also carries WABI-TV in Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, and Oxford counties, in the Portland market, on channel 6265. It is the flagship station of Diversified Communications, which is owned by the Hildreth family of Bangor. Its studios are located on Hildreth Street in West Bangor. Syndicated programming on WABI includes How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Dr. Oz Show among others.

Digital channels

History

WABI-TV was the first television station in Maine signing-on January 25, 1953 and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 5. It was owned by former Governor Horace Hildreth along with WABI radio (910 AM, now WAEI, and 97.1 FM now WBFB), and managed in its early years by Murray Carpenter. The station was a primary NBC affiliate, but carried secondary affiliations with the other three major networks of the day. (CBS, ABC, and DuMont). It lost CBS to WTWO (channel 2) in 1955; that station had been founded by Carpenter. It lost DuMont soon afterward when that network shut down. After Carpenter sold WTWO to the Rines-Thompson family in 1959, the new owners changed that station's calls to WLBZ-TV and swapped affiliations with WABI-TV, making channel 5 a primary CBS affiliate. The two outlets then began to share ABC programming, which had previously been exclusive to WABI. This ended when WEMT (now WVII-TV) signed-on in 1965 and took the affiliation. During the late-1950s, WABI was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.

WABI

WABI or wabi may refer to:

Wabi (software)

Wabi was a commercial product from Sun Microsystems that implemented the Windows Win16 API specification on Solaris; a version for Linux was also released by Caldera Systems. Wabi supported running applications developed for Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows for Workgroups.

History

The technology was originally developed by Praxsys Technologies as the result of discussions in 1990 with Interactive Systems Corporation. The assets of Praxsys were acquired by Sun in the fall of 1992. The name "Wabi" was chosen for two reasons: its meaning in Japanese of balance or harmony, which conjured the notion of a more peaceful coexistence between Windows and Unix software; and, the more obvious implication of it standing for "Windows Application Binary Interface", although before its release Sun declared that the name was not an acronym.

Wabi 2.2B was licensed by Caldera to allow its users to run Windows applications under Linux, together with the also licensed Merge.

Wabi development was discontinued in December 1997.

WAEI (AM)

WAEI (910 AM) is a radio station licensed to Bangor, Maine, USA. The station is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting.as of August 28, 2014.

History

The station began broadcasting as WABI in November 1924, operating at 1250 kilocycles under the ownership of the Bangor Railway & Electric Company. A license had been granted in May 1923. It is Maine's oldest radio station (several other stations, including WMB in Auburn and WPAY in Bangor, were licensed prior to WABI but have since ceased operations, with WMB being deleted two months before WABI's licensing). Ownership was transferred to the First Universalist Church by 1926; within a year, it moved to 770 kc., and on November 11, 1928, the Federal Radio Commission moved WABI to 1200 kc. By 1930, the station was owned by Pine Tree Broadcasting Corporation; in 1932, it was again transferred to the First Universalist Society. Under the First Universalist Church, WABI only broadcast on Sundays. The station was owned by Community Broadcasting Service by 1935; it was Bangor's CBS affiliate, replacing WLBZ, by 1939. During the early 1940s, WABI again changed frequencies; the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement moved the station to 1230 kc. in 1941, and in 1942 it began broadcasting at its current frequency of 910 kHz.