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Greatest Hits Radio North Derbyshire

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This is one of a large number of English local radio stations which have been closed and replaced with a national network. There does not seem to be a need for a page for all these stations - a single page listing Greatest Hits Radio stations should suffice CallLetters (talk) 16:59, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator has also tagged the following articles for deletion under this page. Nthep (talk) 17:33, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'd suggest demerging the nominations and dealing with each separately. If all the GHR stations were new I'd support the nominators suggestion of redirection. However, they all had a previous independent existence and the notability of each station based on its entire life, not just its latest incarnation, needs to be assessed. Doing this in one mass nomination is going to be very messy. Nthep (talk) 17:33, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, as these articles are needed to address the histories of so many stations at once; a merger of their contents would be a mess in the making. The GHR rollup ended the existence of a lot of separate stations—some of which were original ILR outlets, e.g. Radio Aire, and each of which have independent notability. Notability is not temporary. Raymie (t • c) 00:39, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am also pinging Chocolateediter as they have been doing extensive editing on the GHR pages in the wake of the September 1 network restructuring. Raymie (t • c) 00:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Maybe it would be better to keep these articles under their original station names (e.g. Peak FM, Signal 2, Radio Wave) and talk about their history in the past tense, rather than redirecting them all to "Greatest Hits Radio [area]" and treating them as currently broadcasting stations, which they aren't (the individual stations have no staff, no programming and no independent output - they serve as translators of a national network). There can be a note on each station page saying "This station was closed and replaced with Greatest Hits Radio on [date]". CallLetters (talk) 11:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]