Talk:Smooth Radio (2010)

message: Arthurvasey (talk) 11:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences between Smooth and Jazz FM, prior to the changeover 

message: In a drive to get this article ready for a potential GA nomination, I have created a refdump of sources relating to Smooth Radio. There is practically everything concerning the network from the radio industry's journal Radio Today which contains lots of useful little information on its history. To save space on this page the list can be found at User:Paul MacDermott/Smooth Radio/references. Paul MacDermott (talk) 22:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Refdump

message: Have added a few, but am looking for an image of GMG/Smooth HQ at Salford Quays or London if possible. I'd like to take this to GA in the not too distant future. Paul MacDermott (talk) 14:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  image request 

message: From 'Special programmong and events':
On 16 January 2012 Smooth Radio launched a phone-in competition titled the Smooth Secret Songs in which listeners were invited to call in to identify a short excerpt from three songs, winning a cash prize if they could name the tracks correctly. The prize money started at £5,000, with each wrong answer generating a £100 increase until they were guessed correctly. A contestant from Birmingham won £18,000 on 3 February after identifying the songs as Got to Be There by Michael Jackson, Smooth Operator by Sade and On the Radio by Donna Summer. A previous version of the competition requiring contestants to guess one song correctly was separately held by London's 102.2 Smooth FM and Manchester's 100.4 Smooth FM in 2006. A listener to the London station won £118,454 after identifying Diana Ross's My Old Piano, while a  contestant in the Northwest picked up £86,500 after correctly guessing the track as Quincy Jones's Razzamatazz.
I removed this because commercial stations run lots of promotions and this doesn't seem important enough to warrant mention in the article. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:32, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine. I think I may have been expecting the prize to reach quite a significant amount, but it was guessed quite quickly in the end. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah I see the point now - if it were a record prize payout I guess it would be significant! :-) Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 02:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed text

message: Adding removed section as I may need to refs to update the presenters. Paul MacDermott (talk) 17:51, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: Plans have been announced this week to take Smooth Radio off the national Digital One multiplex, and to roll out the Smooth Radio brand across the existing Gold network. As this would effectively end Smooth's status as a national radio station, when it happens, I propose to begin a new article covering that topic, perhaps briefly summarising this one then adding any fresh information there. We have articles for previous incarnations of this station, i.e., 102.2 Jazz FM, 102.2 Smooth FM and 102.2 Smooth Radio, and their various regional stablemates, so this would just be a continuation of that, and it would be a shame to wreck a page with Good Article status by adding a load of additional detail, some of which it may not be possible to source. Also, Global plan to partially restore a regional service, so we'll probably need to create a few fresh articles. Please feel free to contact me about this, or add any thoughts here. Thanks. Paul MacDermott (talk) 13:51, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: An update on this. Now we have confirmation of the relaunch, I propose to move this article to Smooth Radio (2010), and create Smooth Radio (2014) for the new station. This seems sensible as we have articles on the station's previous incarnations. Feel free to add any thoughts on this. If nobody objects, I'll make the changes once the relaunch happens. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible article split