WGME-TV, the Glossary
WGME-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Portland, Maine, United States, affiliated with CBS.[1]
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70 relations: American Sports Network, Aspect ratio (image), Auburn, Maine, Augusta, Maine, Baltimore, Bangor, Maine, Big Three (American television), Broadcasting & Cable, Call signs in North America, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, CBS, CBS Media Ventures, CBS News Sunday Morning, CBS Saturday Morning, Concussion, Cunningham Broadcasting, Dabl, Display resolution, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gannett, Guinness World Records, Guy Gannett Communications, Infomercial, Kennebec Journal, KFVS TV Mast, KFVS-TV, KOBR-TV Tower, Lewiston, Maine, Limited liability company, List of tallest buildings and structures, Local marketing agreement, Maine State House, Media market, Morning Sentinel, Multiplex (television), Neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, RabbitEars, Raymond, Maine, Regulations on children's television programming in the United States, Retransmission consent, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Sister station, TBD (TV network), Tegna Inc., Television station, The CW, ... Expand index (20 more) »
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American Sports Network
American Sports Network (ASN) was a sports brand owned by the U.S. television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group through its Sinclair Networks subsidiary. WGME-TV and American Sports Network are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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Auburn, Maine
Auburn is a city in south-central Maine, within the United States.
Augusta, Maine
Augusta is the capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of and most populous city in Kennebec County.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Big Three (American television)
From the 1950s to the 1980s, during the network era of American television, there were three commercial broadcast television networks – NBC (the National Broadcasting Company, "the Peacock Network"), CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System, "the Eye Network"), ABC (the American Broadcasting Company, "the Alphabet Network") – that due to their longevity and ratings success are informally referred to as the "Big Three".
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Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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Call signs in North America
Call signs are frequently still used by North American broadcast stations, in addition to amateur radio and other international radio stations that continue to identify by call signs worldwide.
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Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 census, the population was 39,540, making it the 17th-largest in the state. The city is one of two principal cities of the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Alexander County, Illinois, Bollinger County, Missouri and Cape Girardeau County, Missouri and has a population of 97,517.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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CBS Media Ventures, Inc. (formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Television Distribution) is the television broadcast syndication arm of CBS Studios, a division of the CBS Entertainment Group, in turn a division of Paramount Global, founded on 2006 by CBS Corporation from a merger of CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions.
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CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS News Sunday Morning (frequently shortened to Sunday Morning) is an American television newsmagazine that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979.
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CBS Saturday Morning
CBS Saturday Morning is a Saturday morning television program that broadcasts on the American television network, CBS.
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Concussion
A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning.
Cunningham Broadcasting
Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of broadcast television stations in the United States. WGME-TV and Cunningham Broadcasting are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Dabl
Dabl is an American digital multicast television network owned by the CBS Media Ventures subsidiary of Paramount Global and operated by Weigel Broadcasting.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Guy Gannett Communications
Guy Gannett Communications was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States. WGME-TV and Guy Gannett Communications are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Infomercial
An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
Kennebec Journal
The Kennebec Journal is a six-day morning daily newspaper published in Augusta, Maine.
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KFVS TV Mast
KFVS TV Mast (also Raycom America Tower Cape Girardeau) is a guyed mast that is 1677 feet (511.1 m) tall, used for transmitting television signals.
KFVS-TV
KFVS-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, serving Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Northwest Tennessee as an affiliate of CBS and The CW. WGME-TV and KFVS-TV are CBS affiliates and television channels and stations established in 1954.
KOBR-TV Tower
KOBR-TV Tower (also called KSWS-TV Tower) is a high guy-wired aerial mast supporting the transmission antenna of television station KOBR in Caprock, New Mexico, United States.
Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine, with the city's population at 37,121 as of the 2020 United States Census.
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Limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.
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List of tallest buildings and structures
The world's tallest human-made structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.
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Maine State House
The Maine State House in Augusta, Maine, is the state capitol of the State of Maine.
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A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.
Morning Sentinel
The Morning Sentinel is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville, Maine.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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Neighborhoods in Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine, is home to many neighborhoods.
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Portland Press Herald
The Portland Press Herald (abbreviated as PPH; Sunday edition Maine Sunday Telegram) is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership.
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Portland, Maine
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.
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RabbitEars
RabbitEars is a website that provides information on over-the-air digital television in the United States, its territories, protectorates, and border areas of Canada and Mexico.
Raymond, Maine
Raymond is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.
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Regulations on children's television programming in the United States
The broadcast of educational children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under regulations colloquially referred to as the Children's Television Act (CTA), the E/I rules, or the Kid Vid rules.
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Retransmission consent
Retransmission consent is a provision of the 1992 United States Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act that requires cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to obtain permission from commercial broadcasters before carrying their programming.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith.
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Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.
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TBD (TV network)
TBD (also referred to unofficially as TBD TV; branded on-air as TBD.) is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and operated by Jukin Media. WGME-TV and TBD (TV network) are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Tegna Inc.
Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The CW
The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.
The Insider (TV program)
The Insider was an American syndicated newsmagazine television program that was distributed by CBS Television Distribution.
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The Nest (TV network)
The Nest is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WGME-TV and the Nest (TV network) are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times Company is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Washington.
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The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company.
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
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Waterville, Maine
Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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WBLM
WBLM (102.9 FM) is a classic rock radio station licensed to Portland, Maine.
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WCSH
WCSH (channel 6) is a television station in Portland, Maine, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Congress Square in Downtown Portland, and its transmitter is located on Winn Mountain in Sebago.
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WGAN
WGAN (560 AM) is an commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Maine.
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WMTW (TV)
WMTW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Poland Spring, Maine, United States, serving the Portland area as an affiliate of ABC. WGME-TV and WMTW (TV) are 1954 establishments in Maine and television channels and stations established in 1954.
WPFO
WPFO (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Waterville, Maine, United States, serving the Portland area as an affiliate of the Fox network. WGME-TV and WPFO are Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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WPXT
WPXT (channel 51) is a television station in Portland, Maine, United States, affiliated with The CW.
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WVII-TV
WVII-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Bangor, Maine, United States, affiliated with ABC.
16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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720p
720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1).
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See also
1954 establishments in Maine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGME-TV
Also known as CBS 13 Portland, CBS Portland, Maine, WGAN-TV, WGME, WGME 13, WGME CBS 13, WGME TV Tower, WGME-13, WGME-DT.
, The Insider (TV program), The Nest (TV network), The Seattle Times Company, The WB, Time Warner Cable, Ultra high frequency, UPN, Very high frequency, Waterville, Maine, Watt, WBLM, WCSH, WGAN, WMTW (TV), WPFO, WPXT, WVII-TV, 16:9 aspect ratio, 480i, 720p.