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The category Category:Radio stations in Cleveland, Ohio is present within the article. The station is licensed to Painesville, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. The station broadcasts to eastern parts of Greater Cleveland, the metropolitan area which Cleveland anchors. There is no need to specify in the lead that WABQ lies within the Cleveland radio market; saying so is not only redundant, but would also confuse readers by implying WABQ program affiliations serve the market as a whole (which they don't). Levdr1lp ( talk) 18:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Lableling WABQ as the local affiliate for Stephanie Miller, etc, rather than a local affiliate is correct for two reasons.
1. WABQ is the only station in the Cleveland market carrying the liberal talk format and carrying these shows...whether or not ABQ covers the whole market is irrelevant.
2. For grammarical purposes... "a local..." implies there's more than one, while "the local..." means, they're the only one. Words mean things.
Vjmlhds 03:59, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
WABQ is also the Lake County affiliate for OSU football, and it is the Lake County affilate for the Buckeyes and Cavs, not just Painesville. All teams have an affiliate in each county. For example, WEOL is the Lorain County affiliate for the Indians, Cavs, and Buckeyes...not just merely Elyria's affiliate.
Vjmlhds 18:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I have added a 2nd reference (tunein.com) to show that WABQ is the Painesville/Lake County affiliate for the Cleveland Indians. This goes along with the Indians' own website listing them as an affiliate. The Tribe erred in listing 1460 under it's old WBKC call letters, which may have caused some confusion. Speaking of websites, it looks like WABQ hasn't touched theirs since Thanksgiving. Vjmlhds 01:53, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
I will grant you that WABQ's website is very low quality (and what the heck skyline is that?..it surely isn't Cleveland).
What would be the best way to verify that it IS WABQ's website?
Common sense would say why would someone bother to make a bogus website for a very small, East side of Cleveland radio station that barely makes it out of Lake County (if that)?
But it isn't worth quibbling over, so if I can get it verified, I'll add it...if not, the heck with it.
Vjmlhds 20:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Listening in on my car radio today (Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 from 11:40am to 12:10pm EST), I can 100% confirm that WABQ dropped its' talk format and reverted to its' prior gospel music format. There have been several instances over the past year where I have heard WABQ running gospel music and not a talk format.
The problem with this is, not only does the station have no internet or streaming presence to speak of, there is next to no coverage about WABQ 1460 to speak of. When one of the top hits on Google points to a blog post I wrote regarding the switch to talk in 2011, there is a serious problem here. I cannot confirm when the switch back to gospel music took place, just that it clearly did between 2015 (if not earlier) and today. (Let alone the introductory paragraph that it was an affiliate of the long-gone Ed Schultz, god rest his soul.) Nathan Obral ( talk) 21:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
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The category Category:Radio stations in Cleveland, Ohio is present within the article. The station is licensed to Painesville, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. The station broadcasts to eastern parts of Greater Cleveland, the metropolitan area which Cleveland anchors. There is no need to specify in the lead that WABQ lies within the Cleveland radio market; saying so is not only redundant, but would also confuse readers by implying WABQ program affiliations serve the market as a whole (which they don't). Levdr1lp ( talk) 18:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Lableling WABQ as the local affiliate for Stephanie Miller, etc, rather than a local affiliate is correct for two reasons.
1. WABQ is the only station in the Cleveland market carrying the liberal talk format and carrying these shows...whether or not ABQ covers the whole market is irrelevant.
2. For grammarical purposes... "a local..." implies there's more than one, while "the local..." means, they're the only one. Words mean things.
Vjmlhds 03:59, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
WABQ is also the Lake County affiliate for OSU football, and it is the Lake County affilate for the Buckeyes and Cavs, not just Painesville. All teams have an affiliate in each county. For example, WEOL is the Lorain County affiliate for the Indians, Cavs, and Buckeyes...not just merely Elyria's affiliate.
Vjmlhds 18:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I have added a 2nd reference (tunein.com) to show that WABQ is the Painesville/Lake County affiliate for the Cleveland Indians. This goes along with the Indians' own website listing them as an affiliate. The Tribe erred in listing 1460 under it's old WBKC call letters, which may have caused some confusion. Speaking of websites, it looks like WABQ hasn't touched theirs since Thanksgiving. Vjmlhds 01:53, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
I will grant you that WABQ's website is very low quality (and what the heck skyline is that?..it surely isn't Cleveland).
What would be the best way to verify that it IS WABQ's website?
Common sense would say why would someone bother to make a bogus website for a very small, East side of Cleveland radio station that barely makes it out of Lake County (if that)?
But it isn't worth quibbling over, so if I can get it verified, I'll add it...if not, the heck with it.
Vjmlhds 20:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Listening in on my car radio today (Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 from 11:40am to 12:10pm EST), I can 100% confirm that WABQ dropped its' talk format and reverted to its' prior gospel music format. There have been several instances over the past year where I have heard WABQ running gospel music and not a talk format.
The problem with this is, not only does the station have no internet or streaming presence to speak of, there is next to no coverage about WABQ 1460 to speak of. When one of the top hits on Google points to a blog post I wrote regarding the switch to talk in 2011, there is a serious problem here. I cannot confirm when the switch back to gospel music took place, just that it clearly did between 2015 (if not earlier) and today. (Let alone the introductory paragraph that it was an affiliate of the long-gone Ed Schultz, god rest his soul.) Nathan Obral ( talk) 21:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)