TV channels & antenna towers in Cumberland Center, Maine

With roughly 2,500 residents, Cumberland Center is a small community in Maine. Within 70 miles of the town center we count 15 licensed TV transmitters: 11 full-power, 2 low-power and 2 translators. Based on each transmitter's power, antenna height and distance, 9 are likely to arrive at fair strength or better, and 6 at good or strong strength.

4 of them are within 25 miles of Cumberland Center, 6 sit 25 to 45 miles away and 5 are more than 45 miles out. Three of the 6 network stations in range are licensed to Portland, so most of the network channels you will find here come from Portland's stations.

For the networks, the best local options are ABC on channel 8 (WMTW), NBC on channel 6 (WCSH), Fox on channel 13.2 (WGME-TV), CW on channel 51 (WPXT) and ION on channel 35 (WIPL). No CBS affiliate is listed within 70 miles; the nearest one in our data is WBZ-TV in Boston, MA, 114 miles to the southwest. 5 full-power stations in range have no network listed in our data; these are typically public television, religious, shopping or independent stations.

Point your antenna WNW, at about 289°. The main network towers for Cumberland Center sit in that direction, so a single directional antenna can pick them all up.

Three network stations, WIPL, WPXT and WMTW, transmit from the same tower site about 25 miles west of Cumberland Center (278° W). Aim there first: one setting covers all of them.

Of the 5 full-power and Class A network signals that reach Cumberland Center at fair strength or better, 80% arrive from the west; the rest are spread across one other direction.

All of the main network towers are within their radio horizon as seen from Cumberland Center, so signals arrive fairly directly and a well-placed antenna should hold them steadily.

The farthest main network tower for Cumberland Center is WMTW (ABC), 25 miles away with a fair estimated signal. That is why we suggest an amplified indoor or attic antenna here. Skip that station and you may get away with a smaller antenna.

WGME-TV is only 15 miles away with a strong signal. Signals that strong can overload an amplifier, so start without one and add it only if distant channels are missing. Read when an amplifier helps.

With 9 stations at fair strength or better, Cumberland Center ranks 74th of 256 places in Maine: more than the typical Maine town (8). Its nearest major network tower is 15 miles away, against a state median of 28 miles.

41% of Maine's cities and towns get the same recommendation: an amplified indoor or attic antenna. The nearest larger city is Portland, 9.6 miles away.