BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Stephen King’s raucous rock ‘n’ roll radio station goes silent at 12 months’s finish.
The famend writer and lifelong rocker who used to carry out with the Rock Backside Remainders, a rock band that featured literary icons, mentioned Monday that at age 77, it’s time to say goodbye to 3 Bangor, Maine, stations which were bleeding cash. King stored the stations afloat for many years, and he mentioned he and his spouse, Tabitha, are proud to have stored them going for therefore lengthy.
“While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,” King mentioned in a press release. “I’ve cherished the individuals who’ve gone to those stations day by day and entertained of us, stored the gear working, and given native advertisers a technique to join with their prospects.”
King’s foray into radio started at age 36 along with his 1983 buy of a radio station that was rebranded WZON in deference to his ebook, “The Dead Zone.” That station went by way of just a few permutations earlier than closing, after which being reacquired by King in 1990.
The ZONE Company’s present lineup consists of WKIT-FM, which payments itself as “Stephen King’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Station,” together with WZON-AM Retro Radio and an grownup different station, WZLO-FM. They will go off the air on Dec. 31.
Ken Wooden, the stations’ common supervisor, mentioned he’s unhappy that the period is ending however blissful that it occurred. “Independent, locally owned radio stations used to be the norm. There are only a few left in Maine, and we’re lucky we had these three as long as we did,” he mentioned.
