WMPG at 90.9 FM & 104.1 FM currently transmits
its unique radio programming from the Portland, Maine, campus of the University of Southern Maine. WMPG's
radio signal blankets Greater Portland & most of Southern Maine with some of the finest, unique programming found
anywhere on your radio dial. WMPG also streams a digital mono 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 Dj-volunteers 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 DJ volunteer 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 for
over 35 years! WMPG has two transmitters: the main transmitter broadcasts at 90.9 FM from Gorham, Maine, with 1100 watts in
stereo, while a translator broadcasts at 104.1 FM at 50 watts from high atop Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine.
The two transmitters cover the Greater Portland region and most of Southern Maine.
Due to recent FCC approval, by the end of 2011,
WMPG will be broadcasting with 4500 watts from a higher and more centrally located (to Greater Portland) broadcast tower,
thereby providing a stronger and cleaner broadcast siganl to more of the Southern, Central & Mid-Coast Maine regions.
Based on the campuses of the University
of Southern Maine, WMPG is a non-commercial, community radio station. Being a community radio station means that its
Dj's (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 hear 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 Dj-volunteers at WMPG.
Remember what your 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, 104.1 FM or on-line),
but 2) you don't quite know what to expect when you find a treasure (a new 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!
