Talk:Lists of radio stations in North America

This article categorizes radio stations by the state or province they are in. There are some other ways, of course, including:

• By format (e.g. top 40)
• By frequency (e.g. stations with a frequency whose nearest whole number is 95 or stations with a frequency equal to 98.5.)
• By identification (e.g. Stations with "rock" in their name)

Any others to think of?? You don't have to create pages like these right now, but when Wikipedia has many articles for radio stations, I recommend you start making pages like these.

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Can somebody create a bot to convert all the FCC data to wikipedia data?

What is the opinion of subcategorization like List of radio stations in South Dakota?

What format do we do for station lists? CallLetters frequency city (network, format) as in List of radio stations in North Carolina

Mydotnet

Radio station article titles (callsign vs. moniker)

All Wikipedia articles on radio stations in the United States in the lists of radio stations in specified U.S. states that this page links to are at the station's callsign. However, at Omaha, Nebraska there are several ghost links to radio station monikers. Does anyone have any suggestions?? 66.245.81.205 20:15, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think we should convert them to call letters, but thats just me Mydotnet 20:52, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Homogenization of State Pages

I have been looking through the state pages, and they are all differently organized. CT's page, for example, has the town the station is based in. AK's page, on the other hand, has only what company owns the station. What is the accepted format for these pages?

Personally I support them sorted by market, then frequency (such as the List of radio stations in Manitoba). Leave the ownership info to the individual station pages when completed. Kirjtc2 04:43, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Let's use the template like List of radio stations in South Dakota. -Mydotnet 00:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

'K' and 'W' ?

Hi there, I see that the name of most of the radio stations in the US either starts with 'W'or 'K'. What does this stand for?

Thanks in advance for the info! Myriam 195.212.29.75 12:38, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

K is a station west of the Mississippi, and W is a station east of the Mississippi. -Mydotnet 00:27, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

This rule must be specific to the antenna, but here in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, we have both WCCO and KARE, KSTP and many others. Obviously, we are right on the Mississippi. Uosdwis (talk) 22:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Right because nowadays the stations disregard that.. But as Mydotnet said in the United States it was standard practice that stations east of the Mississippi River started with W. And stations west of the Mississippi River started with K. Nobody would really be in the middle of the Mississippi River would they?  :-p

• About.com -- Why Some Radio Station Call Letters Begin With "W" And Others "K" - By Corey Deitz, About.com

Also to add to that... Quote -- (Canadian Station begin with 'C', Mexican Stations begin with 'X') and--- END Quote--- also, Caribbean Radio/TV stations begin with "Z".... CaribDigita (talk) 03:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Only slightly off-topic

Those interested in this subject might want to go give input at the new Wikipedia:Broadcasting notability, which is a suggested guideline. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:33, 17 October 2005 (UTC)