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Did you know... that the 1988 closure of WLEE, once one of the top radio stations in Richmond, Virginia, also took WBBL, a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
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... that the 1988 closure of WLEE, once one of the top radio stations in Richmond, Virginia, also took WBBL, a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good? Source: Phillips, Katherine (May 13, 1989). "City's oldest radio station is homeless again". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. A-6.
Starting this review. Realized that there are two articles here. I will be posting notes for both articles right here. If that is procedurally incorrect, please feel free to let me know. Ktin (talk) 17:13, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness, length. No issues with tone. Earwig does not throw any issues. Hook is cited to a Richmond Times dispatch, an offline source. Requesting the nominator to see if they can provide a digital version either via a newspapers.com snapshot or other means. Will AGF on offline sources across the article. QPQ done. Hook is interesting. Passing back to nominator. Ktin (talk) 17:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness, length. No issues with tone. Earwig does not throw any issues. QPQ done. Hook is interesting. Passing back to nominator with same request re: hook source. Ktin (talk) 17:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hi Ktin, I have PDFs of this material and would be happy to send directly. Richmond is a weird market for papers: the Richmond papers run to 1963 in Newspapers.com, but then I have NewsBank which picks them up in 1985. I cannot link to NewsBank resources, unfortunately. Would you email me or find me on WP:DISCORD? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for sharing the pdf, Sammi Brie. Looks good. Richmond's oldest radio station -- part-time religious station WBBL-AM -- is homeless for the second time this year. The station, licensed to Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, used the transmitter and tower of former WLEE (14 80 AM) until the station was silenced Dec. 31.. The 65 year comment also checks out as a simple 1989-1924. Looks good. Marking approved. Nice work as always. Ktin (talk) 19:44, 30 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Article meets eligibility criteria - newness, length. No issues with tone. Earwig does not throw any issues. Hook is cited to a Richmond Times dispatch, an offline source. Requesting the nominator to see if they can provide a digital version either via a newspapers.com snapshot or other means. Will AGF on offline sources across the article. QPQ done. Hook is interesting. Passing back to nominator. Ktin (talk) 17:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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