Talk:WEXP (La Salle University)/Archive 1

message: I propose to move this article to WEXP-AM, which currently redirects to this page anyway.  It is shorter, and more accurate in my opinion.  Does anyone have a problem with that?  The only thing is...I think I need an admin to move it because WEXP-AM already exists. Lasallefan 14:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Move

message: WEXP are the call letters for a station in Brandon, near Rutland, Vermont.  .  Why does this unlicensed station claim those call letters? -- Mikeblas 13:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not debating legality; I'm trying to figure out why this station (for which I can't find any licensing information) is using the page "WEXP", while the commercial and licensed station doesn't have a page at all. Isn't the licensed, high-power station more notable than the college station, which doesn't broadcast off-campus? -- Mikeblas 16:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WEXP FM is in a smaller market, it hasn't been around nearly as long as the AM compatriot, and it no longer even promotes the "calls," although neither station is still using the slogan "Express" Radio.  WEXP Fm's just another classic rock station. If someone really wants to make a WEXP FM page, so be it, but I'm not volunteering. Delinodeshields 20:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Playing Devil's Advocate, couldn't I argue that the 30+ year old unlicensed college station in one of America's largest cities is more notable than the radio station in Vermont who registered for their call letters last year? Just saying. 68.80.40.229 04:52, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

text: That last comment was mine. NOW I'm logged in. Pacdude 04:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The La Salle station can claim squatter's rights to the callsign, then? While WEXP might be "just another classic rock station", the La Salle station is just another college station -- and the Vermont WEXP station is actually registered with the FCC. It seems a curious situation to me, that an unlicensed station would use a callsign without it being assigned. -- Mikeblas 05:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Indeed, it seems like you've got many other things to sort out with respect to this article. Someone's renamed it appropriately and created a disambiguation page, but unfortunately that left about three-dozen links to the disambiguation page. I'm still curious how the college station can claim the name of a commercially licensed station on its web page and in its promotions and avertising. -- Mikeblas 01:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect call letters? 

message: The WEXPfest is a tradition of the radio station and had been going on for more than 3 years. I removed DJ names and just stated that they have existed in the past and there have been plans to have them exist in the future. Lasallefan keeps removing the edits, calling them vandalism and irrelevant. I feel weak and powerless because the mods don't do a thing to check. I'd like an administrator or a moderator to rule on it. Is the information I've posted in the past about WEXP relevant? Pacdude 21:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: **Throwing my name in the hat here, I must clarify, that the initial deletion was NOT by user:lasallefan, so no I did not have an initial problem with the User: Lasallefan except now he started acting like he owns this page. It would incongruent with the wikipedia spirit, not to mention wexp's, for either him or myself to keep persisting like the owner and the moderator of the content.  Delinodeshields 15:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed... Nobody likes a self promoter Delinodeshields 15:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is WEXPfest irrelevant? 

message: This radio station provided and still provides all of my greatest memories of our college years.  WEXP has featured live interviews with comedian Dane Cook, Rockapella from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Lita and some of the other characters from WWF... Can anyone remember any other notable celebrity appearances over the years? Also, in my days as a DJ my favorite broadcast was the time we were given to go on the air to give away plane tickets and the football tickets for that '03 Sugar Bowl game to some students. Granted it's perhaps not encylopedic because it was a one time promotion, but that parternship with Nokia helped us celebrate WEXP's first foray into online radio back in Fall 2002. WEXP's unlike an opportunity a lot of college DJ's get and I could exempify the reasons but I'm getting longwinded.  I'm also impressed with the widely(?) acclaimed sports coverage, to the extent that it's filled a huge void, particularly giving me and all the other fans of these otherwise hidden sports teams something to cherish. (La Salle has a basketball team?)  Because fans of the soccer and baseball teams are from all over the United States, and WEXP is the only signal that carries them, this extensive coverage should not be taken for granted by anyone. (KH '05) Delinodeshields 00:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability and memories

message: This article appears to contradict itself. It says in the opening sentence that the station "airs on 1600AM", but at the end of the first section, it says that the station hasn't been transmitting on any frequency since 2003. Which is correct? The carrier current broadcast is a bit confusing; was this interrupted in 2003, as well, or has it been continuous? -- Mikeblas 18:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be a good idea to make this clearer in the article. -- Mikeblas 19:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, I find it even more confusing. "Planned to still take place" means what, exactly? That it was not interrupted, and the station really is on the air (in contradiction to the opening paragraph)? Or that it will not be interrupted?  "Currently" is pretty temporal, and not exactly good wording for an encyclopedia article. "In August, 2006" would be more appropriate (if that's what "currently" means). -- Mikeblas 16:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  on air, or not?