When 105.7 picked up the call letters, they had been in storage on co-owned 1150 AM (now WWDJ).

Jones, previously programmed CBS Hot AC “Mix 98.5” WBMX and Classic Hits 103.3 WODS in the market along with long runs programming in Chicago, Hartford, and Worcester.

Offended by the humor poking fun at her home state, a woman called the station, threatening to continue protesting the show until it is taken off the air.

The station now focuses on hit songs from the 1970s, the 1980s, and some 1990s hits.

In 2006, WROR gradually moved back to more of a pop-based classic hits format. The signal reaches as far north as Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and as far south as Providence, Rhode Island.

WROR became the market's lone classic hits station in 2012 following WODS's format switch to top 40. Airing typically at 6:17 AM and 7:17 AM, episodes typically revolve around the two main characters Lem (played by Tom) and Ephus (played by Wally), and other residents of Bangor, Maine, such as Ephus' wife Effie and son Ephus Junior, Doc Cider (after Dock Sider shoes) and Pastor Fazool (after pasta e fagioli). The Lost 45s hosted by Barry Scott returned to WROR on September 2, 2012 (it has been on the station before it went to rival Oldies 103.3 in 2001), before being dropped on April 2014. When 105.7 picked up the call letters, they had been in storage on co-owned 1150 AM (now WWDJ).

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She will host the show live from 10am to 2pm and welcome listeners to pick and introduce their favorite songs during the noon hour.

By 1999, the format had been modified to a classic rock format, similar to co-owned WMGK in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the early 1990s, WVBF was the radio home of Delilah before she moved to Seattle and became syndicated across the country. WKOX AM and FM were acquired by Fairbanks Communications in July 1971. Contact Us Loren & Wally, who have hosted mornings on WROR since its launch in 1996, remain in place.

The same characters have been used in songs about Maine on the segment "Tom's Townie Tunes" (see below). Boggle gives you 3 minutes to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters.