Andover Earth Station Video

Here's a History Channel segment about the first transatlantic television transmission from the Andover Earth Station to France via the Telstar satellite in 1962.

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Maine Radio History, 1971–1996

BostonRadio.org offers an excellent history of Maine radio stations from 1971 to 1996.

There was only one station in Piscataquis County in 1971, Dover-Foxcroft's WDME. There's still only one, and it's still WDME. The only difference is that back then, WDME was on 1340 AM (and a relative newcomer; it signed on in 1967). WDME-FM signed on in 1980, as a simulcast on 103.1 A few years later, both stations moved into a converted railroad car, and not long after that, the AM vanished from the airwaves. Today, “D-103” makes a big deal out of its exotic studio location, with IDs that feature train sounds underneath.

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Maine Immigration Data Since 1880

This Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 from the New York Times shows that Maine's immigrants have mostly been from Canada. In the Mid-coast counties, though, Western European immigrants have often outnumbered Canadians, and Cumberland County has seen its Asian/Middle Eastern population become predominant since 1990.

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