The two stations share studios on Northport Drive in the North Deering section of Portland; WGME-TV's transmitter is located on Brown Hill west of Raymond.

[a] Motivated by the impending expiration of the family trust that owned the company and a seller's market for broadcasting properties, Guy Gannett Communications put itself up for sale in 1998, ending 110 years of its history as a publisher.

[9] The Guy Gannett purchase gave Sinclair diversification into affiliates of the Big Three networks and beyond a portfolio heavy with Fox, WB, and UPN stations.

[10] WGME owner Sinclair Broadcast Group and Time Warner Cable disputed the terms of their retransmission consent agreement that expired on December 31, 2010.

Rafferty reduced his reporting hours after suffering a stroke during a live cut-in of a syndicated program on January 19, 2006,[16] quitting the anchor desk for a behind-the-scene technical job at the station.

[citation needed] He retired during 2012 to become the Public Relations and Education Head at the Maine State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

[citation needed] Starting February 5, 2007, WGME began producing a 10 p.m. newscast on Fox affiliate WPFO after establishing a news-share agreement.

Known on-air as Fox 23 News at 10, it is the first prime-time broadcast in the market; as of September 2018, there is now a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast on CW affiliate WPXT (channel 51).

[citation needed] WGME does not produce local weekend morning newscasts, unlike the NBC and ABC affiliates in the Portland market.

[citation needed] The sale made WPFO a sister station of WGME, essentially creating an unofficial duopoly in the Portland market.

The opportunity came about as a result of CBS Television Distribution's decision to cancel The Insider, which had previously aired on WGME in the 7:30 p.m. weeknight time slot.

A smaller anchor desk at the video wall is used for WPFO broadcasts Good Day Maine and News 13 on FOX at 10 pm.

The weather office is fully visible to viewers, with a small desk for the meteorologist above which a four-monitor video wall could show graphics.