Talk:Metromedia

message: I have absolutely no clue what User:Rollosmokes problem is, my edits are proper, Under the section Current Owners it is not necessary to put for example Owned by Clear Channel Communications because the section title has already established that this part is a list of current owners of the stations. Second adding the prefixes AM and FM after the station's call letters are necessary primarily because it distinguishs the differents between an AM and FM in the same broadcast market with the same FCC issued call letters and if applicable two different articles if they exist on Wikipedia. User:Rollosmokes also seems to have a nasty habit of reverting without creating a public discussion and posting a message on my talkpage with the following statement "format here was fine for months until you felt the need to fix what wasn't broken", I don't think the article was broken I think it just needed improvement, My edits were NOT malicious I was simply trying to be a good Wikipedian and contribute. I would like to request that a Wikipedia administrator could look at this and a make a non-bias decision on how this should be handled and that the page be temporarily protected until this dispute can be resolved. They call me Mr. Pibb 18:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, seems ridiculous to put "owned by..." in box that says OWNER. my two cents Jorobeq 06:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Just my 2 cents - when the column heading is "Current Owner", putting "Owned by" in the individual cells is redundant. The heading clearly establishes that the entity named in the cell is the owner of the station, and Mr. Pibb's edits improve the table's readability. Nothing personal, Rollo, but that's just how I see it. dhett (talk • contribs) 22:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the words Owned by under the Radio stations Current Ownership, as was discussed previously by other users here it is redundant and should not be included.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simon Bar Sinister (talk • contribs) 18:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits by [[User:They call me Mr. Pibb]] and [[User:Rollosmokes]]

message: Please add WOMC 104.3 FM in Detroit as a former Metromedia station.  It's now owned by CBS Radio. Steelbeard1 01:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, with ref added. Thanks! Firsfron of Ronchester 02:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio station addition 

message: About a month ago, I tried to cleanup the Metromedia page by seperating the article in brackets. The brackets were based on decades. This was done in hopes of making the article easier to read/follow. Unfortunately, Rollosmokes took great offense to this, and completely reverted things back to the way he saw fit. And to make matters worse, it practically does this without consulting with me first to explain his rationale. He did virtually, the same thing with my edits of the Soul Train page. It's really pity and self-serving to be brutally honest. TMC1982 12:29 a.m., 13 August 2007 (2007)
:My reasons for making the revertion were summed up in the edit summary: There is really no reason why the article should be sub-sectioned in that manner.  There isn't enough text to warrant separate sub-headings based on decade.  When and if the article is expanded to a manner similar to, for example Westinghouse Broadcasting, then I'll agree with you.
:This is stricly a professional critique of your work.  To quote Jermaine Jackson, don't take it personal.  Rollosmokes 04:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rollosmokes editing over my changes

message: While the name Metromedia, Inc. came into being in 1961, its broadcasting properties continued to use the "Metropolitan Broadcasting" moniker for about five more years afterwards.  In fact, a 1964 sign-off of WNEW-TV (by announcer Tom Gregory) specified the station's owner as "Metropolitan Broadcasting, Division of Metromedia, Inc."  And as late as 1966, WTTG's letterheads continued to mention "Metropolitan Broadcasting" in the text.  It was about 1967 that the TV stations, in their advertising, first listed "Metromedia Television" (while its radio outlets were under the "Metromedia Radio" banner).  I'm just asking where in this entry this factoid would go. –Wbwn 07:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Metromedia in the early years

message: Ok, so somebody has put back the Owned by underneath the Current Ownership category which is just redundant, clearly it says Current Ownership you don't need to put Owned by next to each of the radio stations. I am removing this again so we can avoid an editing war which was originally started by two other Wikipedians. TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 01:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundancy in Radio ownership saying Owned by 

message: any reason for its not being shown here? Shotguntony (talk) 19:44, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  MPC logo 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: FOX television stations will go on sale. And it's the end of an era of Rupert Murdoch's business empire and the hostile takeovers. FOX, FOX News, FOX Business, and FOX Sports, and MY Network is going off the air and sign off. We will make a transition to turn back into Independent Stations owned by Metromedia with sign-ons and sign-offs followed by the National Anthem of the United States of America. 100.2.149.243 (talk) 18:47, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bring back Independent Stations owned by Metromedia