WZON
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| Broadcast area | Penobscot County, Maine |
| Frequency | 620 kHz |
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| History | |
First air date | December 30, 1926 |
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Call sign meaning | The Dead Zone |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 66674 |
| Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 44°49′47.25″N 68°47′0.13″W / 44.8297917°N 68.7833694°W |
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WZON (620 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Bangor, Maine, United States, and serves Central Maine, that is currently silent. WZON is owned by Mix Maine Media, through licensee J. Hanson Company; the company also owns WZLO and programs WBAN and WGUY in the Bangor area.
WZON is one of Maine's oldest radio stations, first signing on the air in 1926 as WLBZ in Dover-Foxcroft. It moved to Bangor in 1928. The station became WACZ in 1981, and after its 1983 purchase by Stephen King, was renamed WZON after his novel The Dead Zone. King formed the Zone Corporation with his wife Tabitha King to manage the station. After briefly, and unsuccessfully, running WZON as a non-commercial station, Stephen King sold WZON in 1990 but repurchased it out of bankruptcy in 1993. Carrying various spoken word formats during King's ownership, including talk, sports and progressive talk, WZON carried a classic hits format as "Z62" from 2018 onward; this was a throwback to a Top 40 format also known as "Z62" heard over the station from 1978 to 1988. King closed WZON and WZLO on December 31, 2024, due to ongoing financial losses; Mix Maine Media acquired the two stations in 2025.