Talk:WBACH

message: The reason for the end of WBACH is almost certainly the addition of a 24 hour classical channel of Maine Public Radio (now truncated to Maine Public) called Maine Public Classical, which is musically similar but a bit better.  Perhaps someone has time to research this and add it.  Xerlome (talk) 08:20, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It actually was the opposite. There was great opposition and complaint when Maine Public Classical moved their "all classical" station off-the-air and made it only accessible to small, remote areas of Maine. Not to mention, it can only be heard either online or by installing a specific HD application to a specialized radio system in your home or car. They lost a lot of listeners because of this who went over to WBACH because it provided full-time classical music: on the air.  Maineartists (talk) 13:27, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason For Termination

message: This page is misleading and confusing. WBACH is no longer on the air -- nor the station. WBQX (106.9 FM) FRANK FM is now broadcasting. This page should be moved; and content updated to reflect the current situation: . Maineartists (talk) 15:23, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Support: This move probably should have been done a while ago; per naming conventions, articles on U.S. radio stations are generally titled based on their call signs, not their brandings. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:43, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment Pardon my ignorance ... if all that you are saying is correct; I am finding it very difficult at this point to even see the relevance of keeping this article operative regardless of the title. It seems that you Bearcat are the one to go in and make sense of all this mess; and once it is sorted out, what is left? one radio station: Frank FM (106.9); is that what we are to gather from all of this? Does WP even warrant an article on all the backstory of a now defunct network of sold off radio frequencies? To be Frank: in the end ... who cares? IMHO Maineartists (talk) 21:09, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Our role isn't just to keep articles about current things — if a thing was notable enough to have an article while it existed, then it remains notable permanently regardless of its current status. For example, the Dumont Television Network is long defunct — but people can and still do need to access information about what it was, so it's important that we keep an article about it anyway. I am currently in the process of restoring the infobox and introduction that the article should have had all along — the WBQX-specific infobox and introduction have been copied and pasted into the WBQX redirect as a hidden comment, so that they're available and accessible if there is a strong basis for a separate article about it. But the fact that the network doesn't exist anymore doesn't mean in and of itself that we shouldn't have an article about it, because people may still need and want information about what it was. Bearcat (talk) 21:17, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey