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I have absolutely no clue what User:Rollosmokes problem is, my edits are proper, Under the section Current Owners it is not necessary to put for example Owned by Clear Channel Communications because the section title has already established that this part is a list of current owners of the stations. Second adding the prefixes AM and FM after the station's call letters are necessary primarily because it distinguishs the differents between an AM and FM in the same broadcast market with the same FCC issued call letters and if applicable two different articles if they exist on Wikipedia. User:Rollosmokes also seems to have a nasty habit of reverting without creating a public discussion and posting a message on my talkpage with the following statement "format here was fine for months until you felt the need to fix what wasn't broken", I don't think the article was broken I think it just needed improvement, My edits were NOT malicious I was simply trying to be a good Wikipedian and contribute. I would like to request that a Wikipedia administrator could look at this and a make a non-bias decision on how this should be handled and that the page be temporarily protected until this dispute can be resolved. They call me Mr. Pibb 18:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I think it is time to settle this, we cannot just have Rollosmokes continously saying this is how it is done. I, for one, and many others out there would agree that putting owned by repeatedly in a column is not only unsightly and extremely redundant. I hope User:Rollosmokes that you can respond to this request in a way in which you do not appear as you did last time, in a manner in which you assert that your opinions are the only ones that are to be taken into consideration. There are now three users that agree with my position, Mr. Pibb, Dhett, and myself and I am sure you can find others out there. Let us try to resolve this in a constructive manner and not in the way in which it has been handled in the past. Jorobeq 05:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please add WOMC 104.3 FM in Detroit as a former Metromedia station. It's now owned by CBS Radio. Steelbeard1 01:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Why don't we split the columnn "current affiliation and owner" in the TV stations table into 2 seperate columns "Current Affiliation" and "Current Owner" Jorobeq 08:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
About a month ago, I tried to cleanup the Metromedia page by seperating the article in brackets. The brackets were based on decades. This was done in hopes of making the article easier to read/follow. Unfortunately, Rollosmokes took great offense to this, and completely reverted things back to the way he saw fit. And to make matters worse, it practically does this without consulting with me first to explain his rationale. He did virtually, the same thing with my edits of the Soul Train page. It's really pity and self-serving to be brutally honest. TMC1982 12:29 a.m., 13 August 2007 (2007)
While the name Metromedia, Inc. came into being in 1961, its broadcasting properties continued to use the "Metropolitan Broadcasting" moniker for about five more years afterwards. In fact, a 1964 sign-off of WNEW-TV (by announcer Tom Gregory) specified the station's owner as "Metropolitan Broadcasting, Division of Metromedia, Inc." And as late as 1966, WTTG's letterheads continued to mention "Metropolitan Broadcasting" in the text. It was about 1967 that the TV stations, in their advertising, first listed "Metromedia Television" (while its radio outlets were under the "Metromedia Radio" banner). I'm just asking where in this entry this factoid would go. – Wbwn 07:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
This series has been removed from the list of Metromedia programs. IMDb, this site, and this site all agree it was a Metromedia program. Firsfron of Ronchester 09:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Here is where this gets sketchy. Susskind left WNEW-TV in '63 because of editorial differences with the station's management. It centered around a program which had scheduled Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin as the only guests. Apparently, the station felt both guests -- especially Belafonte -- were too controversial and asked (or tried to force) Susskind to drop one of them or include others to surround them. Susskind refused to bow, and accused WNEW-TV with harassment and censorship. In moving to WPIX, the Times article mentioned that, along with Susskind keeping complete creative/editorial freedom, Talent Associates "would present the series in association with the Videotape Center (the New York facility where the show was moved)."
Susskind apparently kept of his program when he moved it back to channel 5. Given what happened only three years earlier, I doubt he would have ceded any content control. Long story short, I'm not doubting the Metromedia link, but I think it was limited to only the program's first stint on WNEW-TV. Rollosmokes 16:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a little confusion in Metromedia's disestablishment. I might be wrong. But after John Kluge sold Metromedia Producers Corporation to 20th Century Fox/ News Corp. in 1986, all of Metromedia's television stations were incorporated as the Fox Television Stations and MPC was folded into 20th Century Fox Television, Metromedia stayed alive, but unless it was spun-off and became Metromedia International Group and they did acquire a stake in Orion Pictures Corporation and years later they took full control. I think Metromedia was disestablished in 1997 instead after selling Orion/Goldwyn to MGM. The information of how Metromedia acquired Orion should be included in the article. Correct me if I'm wrong in this. King Shadeed 17:19, July 15, 2011 (UTC)
Ok, so somebody has put back the Owned by underneath the Current Ownership category which is just redundant, clearly it says Current Ownership you don't need to put Owned by next to each of the radio stations. I am removing this again so we can avoid an editing war which was originally started by two other Wikipedians. TheGoofyGolfer ( talk) 01:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
any reason for its not being shown here? Shotguntony ( talk) 19:44, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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FOX television stations will go on sale. And it's the end of an era of Rupert Murdoch's business empire and the hostile takeovers. FOX, FOX News, FOX Business, and FOX Sports, and MY Network is going off the air and sign off. We will make a transition to turn back into Independent Stations owned by Metromedia with sign-ons and sign-offs followed by the National Anthem of the United States of America. 100.2.149.243 ( talk) 18:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
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I have absolutely no clue what User:Rollosmokes problem is, my edits are proper, Under the section Current Owners it is not necessary to put for example Owned by Clear Channel Communications because the section title has already established that this part is a list of current owners of the stations. Second adding the prefixes AM and FM after the station's call letters are necessary primarily because it distinguishs the differents between an AM and FM in the same broadcast market with the same FCC issued call letters and if applicable two different articles if they exist on Wikipedia. User:Rollosmokes also seems to have a nasty habit of reverting without creating a public discussion and posting a message on my talkpage with the following statement "format here was fine for months until you felt the need to fix what wasn't broken", I don't think the article was broken I think it just needed improvement, My edits were NOT malicious I was simply trying to be a good Wikipedian and contribute. I would like to request that a Wikipedia administrator could look at this and a make a non-bias decision on how this should be handled and that the page be temporarily protected until this dispute can be resolved. They call me Mr. Pibb 18:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I think it is time to settle this, we cannot just have Rollosmokes continously saying this is how it is done. I, for one, and many others out there would agree that putting owned by repeatedly in a column is not only unsightly and extremely redundant. I hope User:Rollosmokes that you can respond to this request in a way in which you do not appear as you did last time, in a manner in which you assert that your opinions are the only ones that are to be taken into consideration. There are now three users that agree with my position, Mr. Pibb, Dhett, and myself and I am sure you can find others out there. Let us try to resolve this in a constructive manner and not in the way in which it has been handled in the past. Jorobeq 05:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please add WOMC 104.3 FM in Detroit as a former Metromedia station. It's now owned by CBS Radio. Steelbeard1 01:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Why don't we split the columnn "current affiliation and owner" in the TV stations table into 2 seperate columns "Current Affiliation" and "Current Owner" Jorobeq 08:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
About a month ago, I tried to cleanup the Metromedia page by seperating the article in brackets. The brackets were based on decades. This was done in hopes of making the article easier to read/follow. Unfortunately, Rollosmokes took great offense to this, and completely reverted things back to the way he saw fit. And to make matters worse, it practically does this without consulting with me first to explain his rationale. He did virtually, the same thing with my edits of the Soul Train page. It's really pity and self-serving to be brutally honest. TMC1982 12:29 a.m., 13 August 2007 (2007)
While the name Metromedia, Inc. came into being in 1961, its broadcasting properties continued to use the "Metropolitan Broadcasting" moniker for about five more years afterwards. In fact, a 1964 sign-off of WNEW-TV (by announcer Tom Gregory) specified the station's owner as "Metropolitan Broadcasting, Division of Metromedia, Inc." And as late as 1966, WTTG's letterheads continued to mention "Metropolitan Broadcasting" in the text. It was about 1967 that the TV stations, in their advertising, first listed "Metromedia Television" (while its radio outlets were under the "Metromedia Radio" banner). I'm just asking where in this entry this factoid would go. – Wbwn 07:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
This series has been removed from the list of Metromedia programs. IMDb, this site, and this site all agree it was a Metromedia program. Firsfron of Ronchester 09:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Here is where this gets sketchy. Susskind left WNEW-TV in '63 because of editorial differences with the station's management. It centered around a program which had scheduled Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin as the only guests. Apparently, the station felt both guests -- especially Belafonte -- were too controversial and asked (or tried to force) Susskind to drop one of them or include others to surround them. Susskind refused to bow, and accused WNEW-TV with harassment and censorship. In moving to WPIX, the Times article mentioned that, along with Susskind keeping complete creative/editorial freedom, Talent Associates "would present the series in association with the Videotape Center (the New York facility where the show was moved)."
Susskind apparently kept of his program when he moved it back to channel 5. Given what happened only three years earlier, I doubt he would have ceded any content control. Long story short, I'm not doubting the Metromedia link, but I think it was limited to only the program's first stint on WNEW-TV. Rollosmokes 16:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a little confusion in Metromedia's disestablishment. I might be wrong. But after John Kluge sold Metromedia Producers Corporation to 20th Century Fox/ News Corp. in 1986, all of Metromedia's television stations were incorporated as the Fox Television Stations and MPC was folded into 20th Century Fox Television, Metromedia stayed alive, but unless it was spun-off and became Metromedia International Group and they did acquire a stake in Orion Pictures Corporation and years later they took full control. I think Metromedia was disestablished in 1997 instead after selling Orion/Goldwyn to MGM. The information of how Metromedia acquired Orion should be included in the article. Correct me if I'm wrong in this. King Shadeed 17:19, July 15, 2011 (UTC)
Ok, so somebody has put back the Owned by underneath the Current Ownership category which is just redundant, clearly it says Current Ownership you don't need to put Owned by next to each of the radio stations. I am removing this again so we can avoid an editing war which was originally started by two other Wikipedians. TheGoofyGolfer ( talk) 01:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
any reason for its not being shown here? Shotguntony ( talk) 19:44, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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FOX television stations will go on sale. And it's the end of an era of Rupert Murdoch's business empire and the hostile takeovers. FOX, FOX News, FOX Business, and FOX Sports, and MY Network is going off the air and sign off. We will make a transition to turn back into Independent Stations owned by Metromedia with sign-ons and sign-offs followed by the National Anthem of the United States of America. 100.2.149.243 ( talk) 18:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)