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[edit] Dictionary
This sounds an awful lot like a dictionary entry. It would be nice to have a history of radio stations and some information about how they have affected modern culture (and been affected). Chadloder 04:46 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Agreement
I absolutely agree. I only wrote this as a beginning to get it off the most wanted list, and hoped that people would add to it. --user:jaknouse
- Yeah, but, we still want it, and now those who use that list to decide what to add won't see it there any more.
- Don't forget pirate radio stations, they have their own colorful history, and are a very important cultural force in Europe.
[edit] "W" and "K"
For weird reasons, Illnois, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts are in the "W", or "Dubya", side, and Texas, Utah, and Iowa are in the "K", or "Kerry", side.
However, few states are accurately placed. California, Oregon, and Washington are in the "K" side, and Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina are in the "W" side. - Anonymous
- For those confused by this entry, it is a political joke. Actually most stations east of the Mississippi river have call letters beginning with W and stations west of the Mississippi have call letters beginning with K. There are exceptions, mostly because the rule was introduced after a number of stations (KDKA - Pittsburgh, WHO - Des Moines, IA, for example) were licensed. --Blainster 03:09, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- This also has to do with a station's city of license, in cases where the station is close to the Mississippi (such as several stations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area)DC 14:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] KDKA
Did KDKA not broadcat a baseball game first or was it WBZ? Scott 02:13, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Moved FM commentary from article to here
Note: The following three paragraphs are not technically accurate and require extensive editing. For example, spacing between stations was set to permit wideband FM (+/- 75 kHz deviation), with the remaining 50 kHz to provide some protection from adjacent channel interference. Also, low-pass filter in stereo FM generators limits highest audio frequency to 15 kHz.
--Blainster 01:34, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AM Stereo
I have just removed a recent edit and some existing material about the reasons for AM Stereo's lack of acceptance. If we want to lay the blame on the FCC we must find a source for that information (because we don't do original research at WP. Also, we would need to locate and fairly treat all opposing points of view. Also, this doesn't address the fact that AM stereo did not catch on outside the US either. -- cmh 23:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First Radio Station
KDKA is listed here as being the first radio station on the air in North America in 1920. However, CFCF radio in Montreal began broadcasting in 1919, the previous year. I know for sure that CFCF was the first radio station to regularly broadcast in North America. Just thought I'd bring this up to your attention. Daniel
- CINW (AM), formerly CFCF-AM, claims program broadcasts began on May 20, 1920, still nearly six months ahead of KDKA. --Blainster 22:47, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] American stations
Can someone explain why American (US) radio stations have names which seem to be random concatenations of letters? Are they call signs? What's the history behind that? Wooster (talk) 12:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- Station call sign prefixes were apportioned around the world early in the 20th century. US commercial radio stations have four call letters beginning with "K" (west of the Mississippi river) or "W" (east of the Missisippi). There are historical exceptions, with some stations dating to the 1920s having just three letters, and some "K" and "W" stations ignoring the dividing line (see North American call sign). The succeeding three letters can be requested from the FCC at the time of licensing if the combination is otherwise unassigned, and are sometimes incorporated into an acronym or initialism for marketing purposes. --Blainster 18:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I would also add that callsigns are absolutely unique in the world, which is really the whole point. Monikers, on the other hand, are not -- they are usually used at several stations in different media markets, sometimes even with the same frequency number (often truncated or rounded to a whole number on FM, and on AM formerly dropping the final 0 sometimes [like 780 becomes 78], which was used to save space on analog-tuning dial radios). Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Bahamas also use this, as do a few shortwave stations like HCJB. Australia used to, but broadcast stations went from VL5UV to 5UV to just Radio Adelaide now, for example.
[edit] Radio Infobox
I'm hoping someone can help me clean up some articles. There are several Mexican radio stations serving U.S. markets, primarily San Diego. The infobox used for many of them has the station's class included (Class A, B, C). I'm still new to Wikipedia and know noting about infoboxes. However, I'm pretty sure the FCC isn't assigning station classes to Mexican stations. Thus, as in Canada, the station class should be deleted, right? Maybe someone can check these out and fix them. Goeverywhere 00:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Globalize tag
the globalize tag is the first thing visible on this page. Reading though the discussion here on the talk page though, I see no mention of why the tag was added. Would anyone care to elaborate, please? -Ohms law 12:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
