WMTW is the ABC-affiliated television station for Southern Maine and Northern New Hampshire licensed to Poland Spring, Maine. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter in West Baldwin, Maine. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable and Comcast channel 8. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 501 and Time Warner Cable digital channel 508. Owned by Hearst Television, WMTW has studios on Danville Corner Road along I-95/Maine Turnpike/Gold Star Memorial Highway in Auburn. It operates secondary facilities in the Time and Temperature Building on Congress Street in Downtown Portland's Monument Square. Syndicated programming on the station includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Dr. Phil, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show among others.

The station signed-on September 25, 1954 as the third television station in the Portland market. It aired an analog signal on VHF channel 8 under the ownership of Mount Washington Television, a group that included former Maine Governor Horace Hildreth. It has always been an ABC affiliate although it aired some DuMont programming for a year. The station's sign-on made Portland one of the smallest markets in the United States with three network affiliates on the analog VHF band. WMTW is also the longest-tenured primary ABC affiliate in New England.

Slaughter Joe aka Joe Foster (born Joseph James Foster) is a musical artist, record producer, historian, and an actor.

Along with Alan McGee and Dick Green, he had formed Creation Records in 1983. He set up the Kaleidoscope Sound label in the mid 1980s, and Creation's subsidiary label Rev-Ola Records in the early 1990s. McGee, Foster and Green were also in the band Biff Bang Pow.

Along with school friends Edward Ball, Dan Treacy, and John and Gerard Bennett, Foster was a founding member of The Television Personalities. He went on to play in Biff Bang Pow, and in numerous other bands.

As Slaughter Joe and the Modern Folk Quintet, he released All Around My Hobby Horse's Head in 1986 on Kaleidoscope Sound. In 1990, saw the release Pied Piper of Feedback on Creation Records. In 2003, he put out Zé Do Caixão which is a compilation of his past work on Rev-Ola featuring Dave Musker (ex-Television Personalities and The Jasmine Minks), Tony Barber (ex-Buzzcocks) and Francis Sweeney (from The June Brides).