The old WIGY

[MisterBilge]

In addition to their terrible business skills, I seem to remember Rick and Steve as evil, arrogent people with no regard for their staffs. Can't speak for their other properties but it's a shame what they tore down in Bath. Gotta love what karma brings around sometimes.   Any idea where they are now? 

[RSKaz]

In addition to their terrible business skills, I seem to remember Rick and Steve as evil, arrogent people with no regard for their staffs. Can't speak for their other properties but it's a shame what they tore down in Bath. Gotta love what karma brings around sometimes.   Any idea where they are now? 

"Evil" signifies intent. I don't think they were that smart. I will agree arrogance played a big role in their downfall. I personally witnessed far too much in-office drinking, sexual harassment, financial mismanagement, etc. The duo were a disaster waiting to happen. Only they didn't wait.

[TheFrankster]

The former WIGY-FM, Bath was a big ol' class-B T40/CHR-format station back in the late 80's. I was a weekend nighttime jock on the FM back then doing Midnight til 6AM right after John Garabedian's syndicated Open House Party.  I also kept an eye on the night-automated AM sister station.  The PD was Scott Barrett who used to like to fire people whenever he messed up on his job, which was often.  Frank Pietroski was also there (he's currently on my FaceBook), Scott Minot was there, and mornings were Rick and Cindy.  The station owner was Maritime Broadcasting.  When I left, WIGY-FM changed call letters to WKRH-FM and changed format to classic rock. It then suffered major financial problems that knocked it off the air for a while in 1990 during bankruptcy. Today, the FM is currently owned by a religious broadcaster from RI and the AM (WJTO) and building is owned by Bob Bittner who also owns WJIB(AM) in the Boston area.  I got a couple of old pix of the station back then.  Frank Licata
 

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[wthorne]

Frankster, here's a picture of the old Igy/KRH studio now. Thought you might like to see it.
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2005-06/maine/100-02908-lrg.html
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2005-06/maine/100-02898-med.html
An old WIGY bumper sticker. IMHO one of the best "High Energy" stations ever in Maine.
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2005-06/maine/100-02896-med.html
Here's the WKRH stickers.
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/2005-06/maine/100-02897-med.html

[Time Traveler]

Back in 1980....WIGY was a rocking Top 40 station...as opposed to WJBQ on 106.3 at the time....which was much more A/C....and by 1982-1983...WIGY was essentially an AOR station with a high energy Top 40 delivery. Their music at the time heavily duplicated WBLM which was on 107.5 in those days. Strangely though....in spite of the signal....their ratings seemed to be pretty anemic in those days...During that period they reminded me of the original WVBF-105.7-Boston during their 1971-1973 era....