WMPG, 90.9 FM Portland, Maine, USA

WMPG at 90.9 FM & 104.1 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 Greater Portland & 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 has two transmitters: the main transmitter broadcasts with 4500 watts in stereo, at 90.9 FM from high atop Blackstrap Hill on the Westbrook/Falmouth town line; a "translator" tower broadcasts to the Portland penninsula at 104.1 FM at 50 watts in stereo from high atop Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine. The two transmitters cover the greater Portland metro region and most of Southern Maine: from The Kennebunks, Biddeford-Saco and Sanford to the southwest; to Bridgton and the Sebago Lakes region to the northwest; to Gray, New Gloucester and the Lewiston-Auburn regions to the north; and to the Bath, Brunswick, Topsham, Harpswell and the lower Mid-Coast regions to the northeast.

Based on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine, WMPG is a non-commercial, community radio station. Being a community radio station means that its volunteer Dj (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 Dj's 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 usually hear a well-thought-out show, including carefully prepared set-lists of music. From new artists and their 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 Dj at WMPG.

Remember what your 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, 104.1 FM and on-line at wmpg.org), 2) you don't quite know what to expect when you find a treasure (a WMPG radio program), and 3) the 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 music genre 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!