Talk:WJBR (AM)

frequency vs call letters

The recent changes have turned this article into a history of Tampa-area stations on the 1010AM frequency. However, the title of the article is WQYK(AM), which indicates (to me) that it should about local stations bearing that name. That's especially true since WQYK-AM began as a country station simulacasting with WQYK-FM, and that relationship was renewed when the the AM version was reborn a little ways up the radio dial.

As such, I really think that the WQYK-AM article should only talk about stations that are/were called WQYK-AM, not unrelated stations that just happened to use the 1010 frequency at some point. Anybody else have an opinion? Zeng8r (talk) 23:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I see that this entry has been basically reverted to a much earlier state w/o discussion. Again, the name of the article is "WQYK-AM", not "Every radio station to ever use the 1010AM frequency in Tampa". Also, some out-of-date info has been returned to the text and infobox. Unless somebody can explain why the recent changes are appropriate, this article should be restored soon. Zeng8r (talk) 03:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm going ahead and returning the focus of this article to AM stations that have used the WQYK call letters. If there's precedent for doing otherwise, please discuss here. As previously stated, tho, it seems to make more sense to make the subject of the text agree with the title of the entry. Zeng8r (talk) 02:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

From my talk page:

At Wikipedia, when we discuss a history of a radio station, we discuss the history of that frequency, not the call letters. Therefore, it is important that the history of 1010 AM as WINQ and WCBF must be included. The history of 1110 is not only mentioned in this article, it is also at WTIS. Thanks for your cooperation

If this is so, why is the title of every broadcast station article listed by the call letters of that station? If I'm looking up WQYK or any other station, I don't want to find out about completely unrelated stations that happened to have been licensed to use the same frequency at some point in the past.

There are probably thousands of radio stations around the world that have used the 1010-AM signal. Where do we draw the line for inclusion in the WQYK entry? If we take your argument to its logical conclusion, every single one of them should be mentioned in this article. That's why it makes MUCH more sense to focus on stations that have used the same call letters, which limits the article to one station in one place.

For the third time, I'll wait for a response here. Zeng8r (talk) 12:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Um, hello?... (looks at watch impatiently) Zeng8r (talk) 21:23, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The general practice is to discuss the history of all the stations on that frequency in that location--it follows the license, not the branding. There's no chance of this article morphing into being about "thousands of radio stations around the world" (that would be the 1010 AM article) but it does need to be about all of the Tampa formats and callsigns that have occupied this frequency. The current pointer back to the 1970s version of WQYK on the WTIS article is exactly the right thing to do. - Dravecky (talk) 16:39, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. So it doesn't matter that there was a popular station with the same call letters and the same format just up the dial? It seems less confusing to stick with the name rather than the frequency in this case. Zeng8r (talk) 16:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)