Talk:WUIN (FM)

message: Anyone know any more about the channel switch? I was listening to the station when it happened (September 2004), but I cannot remember any details like date and time. --Anidnmeno 02:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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message: Most of the following has been copied from Talk:WAZO.
After December 31, 2010, WSFM (FM) will no longer exist. The speculation is that WUIN will move to the old WSFM frequency, and based on what I have been told, the history of the station should go with the call letters, not the frequency.
At one time, the history of WSFM and its predecessor WJYW were in the WAZO article because they were at 107.5. That would seem to make the most sense, because WAZO does not have a long history. We could just have two sections: one on the history of 107.5 (and 107.1 before that), and one on the history of 98.3 prior to 2011.Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 18:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose: The history of the station stays with the license, even if the call sign or frequency change, although there are exceptions to this guiding principle. It would be better to write up the history of each station and where there's a call sign swap include a sentence along the lines of "In January 2011, the WARM call sign and all-polka programming moved from 98.6 FM to 104.2 FM in a swap with WHOT." with an explanation of why the swap took place and a link to the other article. Was it an ownership change? Were the station's already co-owned and they swapped the frequencies for some other reason (signal strength, coverage area, wanted excuse to print new bumperstickers) and can you give a cite for that reason? And you'll need a sentence or two guiding the reader to the other article at each article. (When station's crosslink their histories like this, the reader will have to read multiple articles one way or the other. This way the editing history and copyright concerns are addressed without undue confusion or a lot of re-writing every time some programming genius swaps formats.) - Dravecky (talk) 23:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "The Penguin" is a brand or format, an evanescent thing and not inherently notable. This is one reason we write our articles about the stations themselves, which are comparatively fixed and stable. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 20:21, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So there's no purpose in keeping its entire history together?Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 21:29, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. Stations mess with formats all the time. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 17:04, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I should drop this then.Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 14:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

text: No, the situation remains as above. Each radio station has its own history and there's no reason to merge them into one tangled article. - Dravecky (talk) 21:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlike the tangled articles we have now.Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 19:04, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger