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98five Sonshine FM has rebranded

The station is now no longer referring to itself as 98five, and instead going by Sonshine (98.5FM). They have a new logo which can be seen on their website here:[1]. 49.255.18.82 (talk) 07:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:98five Sonshine FM#Requested move 12 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:98five Sonshine FM#Requested move 12 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sunshine Radio (FM)#Requested move 12 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sunshine Radio (FM)#Requested move 12 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:15, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Does Rewind 92.5 have kids music?

I'll take that as a no. Why? Because Rewind 92.5 has adult music and bad words. radio stations these days used a technique to blur out bad words in their songs to make the song clean for kids and teens. 2604:2D80:9F02:FE00:F979:94CE:23B2:2C4D (talk) 00:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Please don't edit this! 2604:2D80:9F02:FE00:F979:94CE:23B2:2C4D (talk) 00:05, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Technical Information/Subchannel Chart a la Digital TV

I believe it would be a good idea to (generally) separate technical and programming-based history just as Wikipedia articles for television stations do. For radio stations operating in hybrid digital mode, it would be helpful to have a chart for the subchannels and anything pertaining to them would be separate from the main body of the page. KevinTheGuy (talk) 06:53, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

We do have something like that. It's in the infobox, WCDW is a perfect example of this. Though most of the time it's just a single HD feed like WDRE or WKSI-FM. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 17:14, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Information on HD subchannels usually belongs in |subchannels= in the infobox. An HD+translator pair may merit a level-2 header if it is separately programmed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Agreed; there's really no need for a gridded chart as there aren't different FM audio standards like there are video standards (and if we get into bitrate that's exclusively enthusiast information), and the subchannels which have analog translator simulcasts complicate things beyond belief to begin with. Nate • (chatter) 02:25, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

KWFF

Wanted to raise a vandalism issue for the project's attention. On at least four separate occasions since October 2023, a user named Bigaouette8532 has edited KWFF, a radio station in Oklahoma, to falsify it as an all-bluegrass station branded as "99.7 Bluegrass FM" instead of its status as a classic country station branded as 99.7 The Wolf — but what verifies at its website is Wolf/classic country, not bluegrass. (I'm also listening to the livestream as I type this for extra verification, and am currently hearing the very classic-country and very not-bluegrass "Ode to Billie Joe".)

This has been reverted each time, twice by Wcquidditch and twice by yours truly; although I don't ordinarily pay attention to American radio stations as a rule due to my lack of deep knowledge on the subject of non-Canadian broadcasting, the two more recent attempts have also included fuckifying the Category:Country radio stations in the United States category to the redlinked Category:Bluegrass radio stations in the United States, thus getting it listed at Special:WantedCategories.

And, in fact, they've been so persistent that some things have gotten missed, such that even after I reverted to the most recent "clean" version there were still little bits of stray junk to clean up, including the falsifying of a citation title to "bluegrass" instead of "wolf", and a nonsense claim in the infobox that its callsign was chosen to "sound like banjo" even though any attempt to pronounce its callsign as a word obviously lands as "quiff" rather than "banjo".

I've restored everything I've been able to catch, and have placed a few weeks of extended confirmed protection on it to block the problem user from being able to edit it at all for the time being — but somebody with more knowledge about American radio than this canucklehead has may need to review it to ensure that I haven't missed anything, and obviously we don't want to leave the article protected any longer than we absolutely have to. The article may, further, need some extra watchlisters to keep an eye on it, if the very few watchlisters it currently has have missed the most recent problematic edits. Bearcat (talk) 15:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I'd recommend requesting an WP:EDITFILTER. That could help prevent further issues on the page. I'd also recommend reporting the user to AIV. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:55, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

The user's been blocked, so I've dropped the protection, but I've applied "pending changes" for a month just in case they try it again as an IP or under a new username. Bearcat (talk) 20:01, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I'll add it to my watchlist, Bearcat. Wouldn't be sporting of me to ignore a call for help from a fellow Torontonian. Mlaffs (talk) 23:28, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:KTON (AM)#Requested move 1 March 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:KTON (AM)#Requested move 1 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 09:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:KCAP_(AM)#Requested_move_1_March_2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:KCAP_(AM)#Requested_move_1_March_2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:33, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Hits Radio — the GHR treatment needs to be revived

Putting this here because I do not have the bandwidth for this.

You might recall the Greatest Hits Radio RfC in 2020. That same precedent needs to be applied to the Hits Radio network which is rolling up legacy names. I had a conversation with Flip Format on my talk page on this (User talk:Sammi Brie#Hits Radio (UK)) and wanted to bring the venue here. I don't have the bandwidth to handle this, but it sure sounds like we've hit a point at which a breakpoint on these rolled-up stations' articles is advisable. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

I would agree with this. To summarise, although nothing programming-wise has changed at each of these stations with the rebrand, I don't think that each individual Hits Radio station has the notability that it did when it was a local radio station, given that each station originates no programming other than a single morning show (and not even that, in cases like City/Rock FM, Metro/TFM and the various Free Radio stations). On the other hand, the history of stations like Radio City, Metro Radio, Red Rose/Rock FM etc is clearly notable and these stations could sustain historic articles of their own, running from their individual launches through to the 2024 rebrand. Hits Radio should have an article which mentions the stations within the network, but each network station doesn't need an article. Flip Format (talk) 12:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Army Radio#Requested move 14 July 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Army Radio#Requested move 14 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 22:41, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:KHFD#Requested move 7 September 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:KHFD#Requested move 7 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 17:53, 12 September 2024 (UTC)