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There is a requested page move discussion at Talk:Virgin Radio (France)#Requested move 2 January 2023 that may be of interest to the members of this WikiProject. 2600:1700:9BF3:220:B9E1:5B8:C232:4F52 ( talk) 02:44, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Your participation in an RFC at Talk:Al-Bayan_(radio_station)#RFC:_Radio_Frequencies_of_Al-Bayan is welcome. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:46, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
An IP user, which has stated to be the owner of WKEY-FM, keeps trying to change the format listed to his station’s branding, and generally violating WP:OR, & WP:ADVERTISING. It seems he has some user on his side now, so I’m going to need help in this one to not overstep the 3RR. Thanks! Stereorock ( talk) 02:58, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Additional: I retract my earlier statement about him getting you on his side because I read your comments to him about COI & his “lousy website” (which it is). Stereorock ( talk) 03:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Why was the article for Liquid Metal redirected to List of Sirius XM Radio channels? The reasoning behind the action states that the station is not independently notable, yet many other Sirius XM stations have their own articles. SouthParkFan65 ( talk) 02:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand#Requested move 20 February 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. From Bassie f ( his talk page) 21:12, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:BBC Sussex#Requested move 3 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 20:02, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:West Sound (Ayrshire)#Requested move 3 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EpicPupper ( talk) 15:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{
WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 13:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:SBS Radio#Requested move 7 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 ( his talk page) 23:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Per the RfC in 2021 on the subject, articles about British local radio stations which were relaunched as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network in 2020/21 should "end their scope prior to the GHR rollup" and serve as historical documentation of the local radio station in question prior to its rebrand. Work to fix some of the hasty edits around the time of the rebrand is ongoing (and almost complete).
A user, User:Socialist Distancing, who has a large number of edits on UK radio-related articles, has recently been going around changing these pages back to names under the Greatest Hits Radio hierarchy, as in this edit where The Revolution (radio station) was renamed in the body text to "Greatest Hits Radio Manchester & The North West (Oldham)". See also: Peak FM; Dream 100; Signal 107. This goes against the 2021 RfC and is generally messy - the user appears to be using a crude search-and-replace in some cases leading to descriptions of Greatest Hits Radio broadcasting local programming that it does not (but that the former local stations did) such as sports coverage.
The user almost never uses edit summaries and is not communicative - they never reply to talk page messages or polite requests from fellow editors regarding their editing behavior. Could other editors keep an eye out for this user's edits and revert where necessary to maintain the status quo regarding these Greatest Hits Radio articles? Flip Format ( talk) 19:32, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Is Radio Locator (Theodric Technologies) considered a reliable source? I would like to use it in Minneapolis#Media to replace Nielsen. The Nielsen page is no longer accessible and using it in the Internet Archive results in an error. As a visitor, I don't know if the link which I found under Resources at WikiProject Radio is for convenience, or if it is a reliable reference. If it's not, could you suggest a better source? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:39, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick thought regarding the UK radio navboxes that I've been updating lately. Currently, these are in a strange order - AM, then FM, then DAB. For several years (per RAJAR) DAB has been the most popular platform for radio listening in terms of listening hours, followed by FM, with AM almost unmeasurably small.
Should these navboxes reflect the reality of modern broadcasting, with DAB placed at the top of each navbox, then FM, then what's left on AM at the bottom? Flip Format ( talk) 19:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
I have recently done a fair amount of work on Template:Tyler-Longview Radio (specifically, bringing its content in line with the actual market of the same name). Before I continue my work improving other market templates, I wanted to attempt to get some discussion going about creating some standards around these boxes - how some things are named, how various cases are handled, etc. I am primarily concerned with US stuff, but consideration should certainly be made for other countries as well.
Questions on which I would like to find consensus include:
-
Garrett W. {
☎
✍} 19:41, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm not sure if I'm in the right place (but I'm sure someone could point me in the right direction), but I'm connected to this page Talk:Plenty Valley FM - Wikipedia wish is the Plenty Valley FM page and the page has been dormant for some time and has inaccurate information in it. I put in a consideration to WP:TNT the page so that I could arrange for someone to provide relevant references to inform and improve the page. I didn't set it up initially, but since Sept 2022 no one has responded to the request (as a WP newbie maybe I didn't request it correctly?) I'm aware of a local volunteer in the area who knows about us and had put together a great reference doc with notations etc to add to the page, but it wasn't published for some reason. I'd like to use it to send edit requests (given I currently have a COI). TIA for any assistance you can provide. Wrightceee1990 ( talk) 07:41, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
There's been an edit war at WHBQ-FM over whether the station's format should be more properly described as "hot adult contemporary" or "contemporary hit radio", which has gone on for long enough (and also became a redlinked-category problem because one of the edit-warrers somehow had the very, very wrong idea that the category for CHR stations would be at "Top 40" instead of "contemporary hit radio". And for added bonus, until this started the station was categorized as classic hits.
I've had to editprotect the page for one week to shut down the editwar and force it to a talk page discussion. Since I'm a Canadian public radio geek with very little current knowledge of US commercial radio these days, could somebody with more knowledge weigh in at Talk:WHBQ-FM? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:KLUV#Requested move 28 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 12:21, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
The last of the traffic/weather channels were removed from Sirius XM in March 2023 (SXM now has an Infotainment package). Is {{ XMSR}} no longer needed, or can/should it be repurposed? -- DrChuck68 ( talk) 23:12, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, I created a redirect template ( Template:R from radio repeater) for tagging redirects that point from the call sign of a repeater to the article for the station being repeated. I thought people in this WikiProject might be interested in using (or editing) the template, so I wanted to let everyone here know. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:03, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
For those not in the know, WMFN was a station started in West Michigan that eventually moved its COL to Peotone, Illinois by a broadcaster who never had designs on actually serving Peotone, but the broader Chicago region at large. As seen by its coverage map, its signal is nearly non-existent inland south of Kankakee, but it blankets Chicago and Milwaukee pretty well. The station owner, Birach Broadcasting Corporation, is outside a couple stations, known for running ethnic formats from stations in the suburban areas of major cities and getting FCC approval to blast those signals into the main urban core.
This has come into issue because the station in technicality serves Will County, but carries the Black Information Network under a LMA with iHeartMedia Chicago. Their advertising in Chicago proper doesn't mention Peotone, and all of their own advertising carried on the station revolves around Chicago and south suburban businesses. If Peotone or Will County is mentioned on the station outside the station ID, it's about the theoretical third airport that's never come to be, or usually in derision because of a negative story about discrimination. Since the Main Studio Rule was dropped, WMFN and Birach don't have any commitments to Will County or Peotone and can do anything they want, and once they entered the LMA with iHeart, their only focus has been distributing the network, and marketing it to, Chicago. Their signal source is WVAZ's second HD Radio subchannel, a Chicago station itself. For all intents and purposes, the station is a Chicago station using its Peotone COL as a flag of convenience, and has been for over ten years (it also previously aired Chicago-focused ethnic formats since the COL move to Peotone). Any programming it had specifically regarding the south suburbs has long been dropped. The station has physical billboard advertising in the city of Chicago advertising that BIN is available on 640 AM.
Knowing all of this, I have tried to add the station to the Chicago radio template while keeping it in the Template:Joliet-Morris-Crete Radio because that's still a radio market of its own, but if its being reported, its actual reach in WillCo like its signal is negligible in the Nielsens but stronger in Chicago (if Birach or iHeart even bother with them). Because COLs don't really matter now post-MSR repeal, I've tried to explain my addition of it in this manner, but @Tdl1060 has continually removed it despite explanation each time, and now dropped WP:DISRUPT on me to chill any discussion on this any further.
I feel like I'm justified in adding WMFN to the Chicago radio template and since we don't use official Nielsen ratings DMAs per the 2007 OTRS report they filed against us (which did involve TV at the time, but now encompasses radio after the Arbitron purchase), we do not defer to specific markets, more so post-MSR repeal. I'd like a neutral third opinion on the matter; if it's determined I am in the wrong, no issue here. But I'm coming here as a realist that knows the station has always been meant to serve Chicago and the market it is in does not matter one bit, because the goal of radio is always to serve the most people, and here, iHeart would not enter an LMA to carry a network around Black news in the nation's third largest city, to somehow only serve Kankakee and a range of farm towns. Thank you. Nate • ( chatter) 21:04, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio: I needed to add a station's previous call signs to an article and when I tried to find those the way I have in the past, I got an "access denied" message. Can someone tell me how to find former call signs now, and more importantly, can a bot update all the links to the former source?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:57, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
K-Country, currently a redirect to Kananaskis Country, has been nominated at RfD (see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 21#K-Country). When investigating that I found that it is a brand used by multiple US and 1 Canadian radio stations so I drafted a disambiguation page for them below the redirect at K-Country. This draft could use attention from someone familiar with the topic area. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:04, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Accent Radio Network is being nominated for deletion. The network was part of a business empire for Daniel Chapter One, owned by Jim & Trish Feijo, who pled guilty on charges of selling unapproved cancer treatments. The link to the deletion page is on the article’s page, & if anyone wants to add their 2¢, or sources, this is the opportunity. Stereorock ( talk) 03:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section § Listing large US cities by state in broadcasting article leads.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 03:56, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I want to run something past you. As you know, Radio-Locator is used on all US radio station pages. The quality of the site has really gone downhill. For a couple months, the site was not being updated. It is again, but some weird edits have been added. WROU, an Alpha Media station, is listed as licensed to "Bryan a. King" (with the lower case "a"). All iHeart stations, like WBIG, show "Steven M. Greeley" as licensee. Then there are issues like WVSB (formerly WUBU) showing years-old information from the callsign's time on what is now WVXS. Basically the site is no longer the reliable source it once was.
My idea is we switch all of the Radio-Locator links to those from REC Networks. As you know, REC is a well-run, constantly updated website, with information parsed directly from the FCC daily. Canadian stations already use REC in their External Links section, so it is clearly a reliable source for those stations. It stands to reason that it would be for US stations as well.
I am not sure what the process would be for moving the links over (ie: discussion, etc), but I thought I'd throw it out there for consideration. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:24, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
to the infobox. It'll even detect that for an LPFM it should not add a public file link.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 20:52, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Since the templates are officially deleted, what's our next steps in replacing them with something else? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:10, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
KCUP 1230 Toledo Oregon has changed formats to ESPN radio on August 2 2023 following a change of ownership. I've updated the KCUP page as well as the List of radio stations in Oregon and List of ESPN Radio affiliates.
If anyone knows more about the circumstances of the change of ownership please feel free to update the entry with more accurate info. Liron ( talk) 03:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
There is a requested page move discussion at Talk:Virgin Radio (France)#Requested move 2 January 2023 that may be of interest to the members of this WikiProject. 2600:1700:9BF3:220:B9E1:5B8:C232:4F52 ( talk) 02:44, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Your participation in an RFC at Talk:Al-Bayan_(radio_station)#RFC:_Radio_Frequencies_of_Al-Bayan is welcome. Robert McClenon ( talk) 18:46, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
An IP user, which has stated to be the owner of WKEY-FM, keeps trying to change the format listed to his station’s branding, and generally violating WP:OR, & WP:ADVERTISING. It seems he has some user on his side now, so I’m going to need help in this one to not overstep the 3RR. Thanks! Stereorock ( talk) 02:58, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Additional: I retract my earlier statement about him getting you on his side because I read your comments to him about COI & his “lousy website” (which it is). Stereorock ( talk) 03:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Why was the article for Liquid Metal redirected to List of Sirius XM Radio channels? The reasoning behind the action states that the station is not independently notable, yet many other Sirius XM stations have their own articles. SouthParkFan65 ( talk) 02:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand#Requested move 20 February 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. From Bassie f ( his talk page) 21:12, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:BBC Sussex#Requested move 3 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 20:02, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:West Sound (Ayrshire)#Requested move 3 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EpicPupper ( talk) 15:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at
Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent
Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to {{
WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{
WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present.
Aymatth2 (
talk) 13:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:SBS Radio#Requested move 7 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Yours sincerely, TechGeek105 ( his talk page) 23:57, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Per the RfC in 2021 on the subject, articles about British local radio stations which were relaunched as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network in 2020/21 should "end their scope prior to the GHR rollup" and serve as historical documentation of the local radio station in question prior to its rebrand. Work to fix some of the hasty edits around the time of the rebrand is ongoing (and almost complete).
A user, User:Socialist Distancing, who has a large number of edits on UK radio-related articles, has recently been going around changing these pages back to names under the Greatest Hits Radio hierarchy, as in this edit where The Revolution (radio station) was renamed in the body text to "Greatest Hits Radio Manchester & The North West (Oldham)". See also: Peak FM; Dream 100; Signal 107. This goes against the 2021 RfC and is generally messy - the user appears to be using a crude search-and-replace in some cases leading to descriptions of Greatest Hits Radio broadcasting local programming that it does not (but that the former local stations did) such as sports coverage.
The user almost never uses edit summaries and is not communicative - they never reply to talk page messages or polite requests from fellow editors regarding their editing behavior. Could other editors keep an eye out for this user's edits and revert where necessary to maintain the status quo regarding these Greatest Hits Radio articles? Flip Format ( talk) 19:32, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Is Radio Locator (Theodric Technologies) considered a reliable source? I would like to use it in Minneapolis#Media to replace Nielsen. The Nielsen page is no longer accessible and using it in the Internet Archive results in an error. As a visitor, I don't know if the link which I found under Resources at WikiProject Radio is for convenience, or if it is a reliable reference. If it's not, could you suggest a better source? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:39, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick thought regarding the UK radio navboxes that I've been updating lately. Currently, these are in a strange order - AM, then FM, then DAB. For several years (per RAJAR) DAB has been the most popular platform for radio listening in terms of listening hours, followed by FM, with AM almost unmeasurably small.
Should these navboxes reflect the reality of modern broadcasting, with DAB placed at the top of each navbox, then FM, then what's left on AM at the bottom? Flip Format ( talk) 19:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
I have recently done a fair amount of work on Template:Tyler-Longview Radio (specifically, bringing its content in line with the actual market of the same name). Before I continue my work improving other market templates, I wanted to attempt to get some discussion going about creating some standards around these boxes - how some things are named, how various cases are handled, etc. I am primarily concerned with US stuff, but consideration should certainly be made for other countries as well.
Questions on which I would like to find consensus include:
-
Garrett W. {
☎
✍} 19:41, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm not sure if I'm in the right place (but I'm sure someone could point me in the right direction), but I'm connected to this page Talk:Plenty Valley FM - Wikipedia wish is the Plenty Valley FM page and the page has been dormant for some time and has inaccurate information in it. I put in a consideration to WP:TNT the page so that I could arrange for someone to provide relevant references to inform and improve the page. I didn't set it up initially, but since Sept 2022 no one has responded to the request (as a WP newbie maybe I didn't request it correctly?) I'm aware of a local volunteer in the area who knows about us and had put together a great reference doc with notations etc to add to the page, but it wasn't published for some reason. I'd like to use it to send edit requests (given I currently have a COI). TIA for any assistance you can provide. Wrightceee1990 ( talk) 07:41, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
There's been an edit war at WHBQ-FM over whether the station's format should be more properly described as "hot adult contemporary" or "contemporary hit radio", which has gone on for long enough (and also became a redlinked-category problem because one of the edit-warrers somehow had the very, very wrong idea that the category for CHR stations would be at "Top 40" instead of "contemporary hit radio". And for added bonus, until this started the station was categorized as classic hits.
I've had to editprotect the page for one week to shut down the editwar and force it to a talk page discussion. Since I'm a Canadian public radio geek with very little current knowledge of US commercial radio these days, could somebody with more knowledge weigh in at Talk:WHBQ-FM? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:KLUV#Requested move 28 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 12:21, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
The last of the traffic/weather channels were removed from Sirius XM in March 2023 (SXM now has an Infotainment package). Is {{ XMSR}} no longer needed, or can/should it be repurposed? -- DrChuck68 ( talk) 23:12, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi all, I created a redirect template ( Template:R from radio repeater) for tagging redirects that point from the call sign of a repeater to the article for the station being repeated. I thought people in this WikiProject might be interested in using (or editing) the template, so I wanted to let everyone here know. ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:03, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
For those not in the know, WMFN was a station started in West Michigan that eventually moved its COL to Peotone, Illinois by a broadcaster who never had designs on actually serving Peotone, but the broader Chicago region at large. As seen by its coverage map, its signal is nearly non-existent inland south of Kankakee, but it blankets Chicago and Milwaukee pretty well. The station owner, Birach Broadcasting Corporation, is outside a couple stations, known for running ethnic formats from stations in the suburban areas of major cities and getting FCC approval to blast those signals into the main urban core.
This has come into issue because the station in technicality serves Will County, but carries the Black Information Network under a LMA with iHeartMedia Chicago. Their advertising in Chicago proper doesn't mention Peotone, and all of their own advertising carried on the station revolves around Chicago and south suburban businesses. If Peotone or Will County is mentioned on the station outside the station ID, it's about the theoretical third airport that's never come to be, or usually in derision because of a negative story about discrimination. Since the Main Studio Rule was dropped, WMFN and Birach don't have any commitments to Will County or Peotone and can do anything they want, and once they entered the LMA with iHeart, their only focus has been distributing the network, and marketing it to, Chicago. Their signal source is WVAZ's second HD Radio subchannel, a Chicago station itself. For all intents and purposes, the station is a Chicago station using its Peotone COL as a flag of convenience, and has been for over ten years (it also previously aired Chicago-focused ethnic formats since the COL move to Peotone). Any programming it had specifically regarding the south suburbs has long been dropped. The station has physical billboard advertising in the city of Chicago advertising that BIN is available on 640 AM.
Knowing all of this, I have tried to add the station to the Chicago radio template while keeping it in the Template:Joliet-Morris-Crete Radio because that's still a radio market of its own, but if its being reported, its actual reach in WillCo like its signal is negligible in the Nielsens but stronger in Chicago (if Birach or iHeart even bother with them). Because COLs don't really matter now post-MSR repeal, I've tried to explain my addition of it in this manner, but @Tdl1060 has continually removed it despite explanation each time, and now dropped WP:DISRUPT on me to chill any discussion on this any further.
I feel like I'm justified in adding WMFN to the Chicago radio template and since we don't use official Nielsen ratings DMAs per the 2007 OTRS report they filed against us (which did involve TV at the time, but now encompasses radio after the Arbitron purchase), we do not defer to specific markets, more so post-MSR repeal. I'd like a neutral third opinion on the matter; if it's determined I am in the wrong, no issue here. But I'm coming here as a realist that knows the station has always been meant to serve Chicago and the market it is in does not matter one bit, because the goal of radio is always to serve the most people, and here, iHeart would not enter an LMA to carry a network around Black news in the nation's third largest city, to somehow only serve Kankakee and a range of farm towns. Thank you. Nate • ( chatter) 21:04, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio: I needed to add a station's previous call signs to an article and when I tried to find those the way I have in the past, I got an "access denied" message. Can someone tell me how to find former call signs now, and more importantly, can a bot update all the links to the former source?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:57, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
K-Country, currently a redirect to Kananaskis Country, has been nominated at RfD (see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 21#K-Country). When investigating that I found that it is a brand used by multiple US and 1 Canadian radio stations so I drafted a disambiguation page for them below the redirect at K-Country. This draft could use attention from someone familiar with the topic area. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:04, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Accent Radio Network is being nominated for deletion. The network was part of a business empire for Daniel Chapter One, owned by Jim & Trish Feijo, who pled guilty on charges of selling unapproved cancer treatments. The link to the deletion page is on the article’s page, & if anyone wants to add their 2¢, or sources, this is the opportunity. Stereorock ( talk) 03:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section § Listing large US cities by state in broadcasting article leads.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 03:56, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I want to run something past you. As you know, Radio-Locator is used on all US radio station pages. The quality of the site has really gone downhill. For a couple months, the site was not being updated. It is again, but some weird edits have been added. WROU, an Alpha Media station, is listed as licensed to "Bryan a. King" (with the lower case "a"). All iHeart stations, like WBIG, show "Steven M. Greeley" as licensee. Then there are issues like WVSB (formerly WUBU) showing years-old information from the callsign's time on what is now WVXS. Basically the site is no longer the reliable source it once was.
My idea is we switch all of the Radio-Locator links to those from REC Networks. As you know, REC is a well-run, constantly updated website, with information parsed directly from the FCC daily. Canadian stations already use REC in their External Links section, so it is clearly a reliable source for those stations. It stands to reason that it would be for US stations as well.
I am not sure what the process would be for moving the links over (ie: discussion, etc), but I thought I'd throw it out there for consideration. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:24, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
to the infobox. It'll even detect that for an LPFM it should not add a public file link.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
t •
c) 20:52, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Since the templates are officially deleted, what's our next steps in replacing them with something else? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:10, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
KCUP 1230 Toledo Oregon has changed formats to ESPN radio on August 2 2023 following a change of ownership. I've updated the KCUP page as well as the List of radio stations in Oregon and List of ESPN Radio affiliates.
If anyone knows more about the circumstances of the change of ownership please feel free to update the entry with more accurate info. Liron ( talk) 03:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)