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The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
-affiliated television station
Television station
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for Northern Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
. The call letters are fictional as it is a cable-only station. It broadcasts exclusively on cable as part of The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
which is a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. The station is operated by Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
and can be seen on the system on channel 13. Known on-air as Presque Isle CW, it is based out of the company's offices on Industrial Street (ME 163) in Presque Isle. Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone
Eastern Time Zone
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, it offers the nationally syndicated
Television syndication
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morning show The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
on weekday mornings from 6 to 9.
Before becoming a CW affiliate, the station was a WB affiliate via The WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
and was branded as "Presque Isle's WB". The WB 100+ was a similar cable-only operation as the current CW Plus service. On September 18, 2006, WBPQ switched to The CW after UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
and The WB closed down and merged. On The CW's local station website, it lists Presque Isle as having a CW affiliate and directs viewers to check local television listings. At one point, it was possible for CBS
CBS
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affiliate WAGM-TV
WAGM-TV
WAGM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Northern Maine, United States and Western New Brunswick, Canada. Licensed to Presque Isle, Maine, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on the northern section of Mars Hill Mountain among the wind...
which broadcasts over-the-air
Terrestrial television
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to replace its secondary UPN affiliation with The CW or add it on a new digital subchannel. Those options did not happen as WAGM chose instead to launch the area's Fox affiliate on its first
WAGM-DT1
WAGM-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Northern Maine, United States and Western New Brunswick, Canada. It is seen on the main channel of CBS affiliate WAGM-TV which is locally-owned by NEPSK, Inc. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel...
subchannel.