Stephen King decided to close his Bangor-area radio stations—WKIT-FM, WZON-AM, and WZLO-FM—at the end of 2024 primarily due to consistent, long-term financial losses and a desire to simplify his business affairs at age 77. Although he enjoyed owning independent, local stations for over 40 years, the stations were no longer financially viable.
Why is Stephen King shutting down his radio stations?
BANGOR — Author Stephen King's longtime Bangor radio stations WZON and WZLO went quiet at the end of last year after King decided to shut them down, along with his third station WKIT, citing the stations' financial losses and his age.
Mix Maine Media, which has stations in Augusta and Bangor, has purchased WKIT from Rock Lobster Radio LLC, which had bought the station from author Stephen King in December 2024. King's Zone Corp. ran WKIT, along with WZON (620 AM) and WZLO (103.1), for 41 years. Mix Maine Media will begin operations Nov.
These are some morbid facts about Stephen King. When he was a young boy, Stephen witnessed one of his best friends get struck and killed by a train but he has no recollection of the event. King's family said that after leaving to play with the boy, he returned home speechless and in shock.
What Stephen King book was pulled from the market?
RAGE is one of Stephen King's earliest novels written under pen name Richard Bachman, a work he has pulled from the market due to real time events 'somewhat' resembling the storyline. He has also excluded RAGE from new editions of The Bachman Books.
Maine radio station owned by Stephen King saved from going off the air
What book does Stephen King regret writing?
Stephen King most famously regrets writing the novel Rage, a novella published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, because it was linked to several real-life high school shootings, causing him to pull it from publication due to fears it might inspire similar violence. While he's expressed distaste for other books like The Tommyknockers, Rage stands out as the work he actively removed from print.
King was hit by a van in 1999, and was lucky not to have been killed outright. While in recovery, one of his lungs had collapsed, he had four broken ribs, a gash to the head that needed 20 stitches and his spine was chipped in eight places. His right leg almost had to be amputated but doctors managed to save it.
In Stephen King's It, the eponymous being returns once every 27 years to feast on little children before going into slumber again. According to Feng Shui, for economic prosperity, it's considered good luck to keep 27 identical coins in your house.
It all began in 1983 when he acquired WLBZ and renamed it WZON as a tribute to his popular book "The Dead Zone." He later added WZLO and WKIT, which proudly boasts itself as "Stephen King's Rock 'n' Roll Station." However, at the age of 77, King has decided to sell his radio stations after enduring significant ...
What is the most famous radio drama ever performed?
1930–1960s: widespread popularity. Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds (a 1938 version of H. G. Wells' novel), which inspired stories of a mass panic that, though greatly exaggerated, signaled the power of the form.
Stephen King struggles to recall writing Cujo due to past substance abuse, showcasing the impact of addiction on creativity. "Rattlesnakes," a sequel to Cujo, addresses the lasting effects of grief and trauma on characters from the original novel.
Stephen King's novel "Carrie," published in 1974, was his first published book and catapulted him to fame. Interestingly, King initially discarded the manuscript, but his wife, Tabitha, retrieved it from the trash and encouraged him to finish it.
What happened to the person that hit Stephen King?
September 24 -- The story of the driver who severely injured Stephen King last year has taken an even more bizarre twist. Over the weekend, Bryan Edwin Smith was found dead in his home in Fryeburg, Maine, the Associated Press reports.
Stephen Hawking's "last words" aren't a single phrase from his deathbed but rather his final messages in his posthumously published book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, and a farewell speech, emphasizing hope, curiosity, and humanity's potential, concluding that "There is no God" and that we should strive to make life valuable, while acknowledging life's brevity and the universe's scientific explanations.
The shortest horror story, widely attributed to Fredric Brown, is: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door." This two-sentence tale creates immense dread by implying an impossible presence, leaving the reader to imagine who or what could be knocking on the door of the only person left on Earth, making it famous for its chilling ambiguity.
