WMTW
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WMTW-TV, licensed to Poland Spring, Maine, broadcasts on Channel 8 and is the ABC affiliate for Portland and the rest of southern Maine, as well as parts of New Hampshire.
However, until early 2002, the transmitter was located atop Mount Washington, New Hampshire, the highest peak in the Northeastern United States. This resulted in one of the largest coverage areas of a single signal in the United States. At one point, WMTW was seen as far away as Montreal, Quebec and many parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, eastern New York, and northern Massachusetts. Today, its transmitter is located in Baldwin, Maine.
Jack Paar, of Tonight Show fame, owned the station for a brief period in the 1960s after he left national TV. He hosted several programs on WMTW during that time.
In 2004, WMTW was sold to national media conglomerate Hearst-Argyle.
Sister station - radio
There was also a WMTW-AM (870) in Portland, a news-talk station. It was sold by Harron Communications, the (now-former) owners of WMTW-TV, to Nassau Broadcast Group in 2003. Today it is WLVP-AM, and is a repeater of Air America Radio.