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Contents 1 Discussion 1.1 Satellite Radio infoboxes 1.2 Old Callsigns Field 1.3 Webstream addition to infobox 1.4 Station class? 1.5 Am I Doing this correctly? 1.6 Expand Infobox - Digital Satellite/Cable/Terrestrial/DAB fields 1.7 Infobox radio vs Infobox Radio 1.8 HD Radio formats 1.9 Widening of Infobox Proposal 1.10 Confusion Over Airdate

[edit] Discussion

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• Archive 1

[edit] Satellite Radio infoboxes

I'm about to embark on a one-man crusade to add articles for all of the Sirius Satellite Radio channels. Given the nature of satellite radio, the regular radio infobox doesn't seem to be quite the right fit. Would there be any objection to me creating a separate satradio infobox? Or should I try to modify the existing infobox with extra optional categories? --Aaron 21:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I think you should modify the existing infobox. It takes ages to edit all the pages again.--AntzUK 22:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, there are very few satellite radio channels that currently have articles on Wikipedia; if there are even ten, I'd be surprised. I should add that I have no problem at all modifying the existing infobox; I just didn't know if it would be proper to add five or six more optional fields when there will probably only be about 100 articles total that will end up using those fields. Also, there are a couple of mandatory fields (frequency and broadcast area, but maybe more) that don't really quite fit satradio channels. They can be made to work (see the box I just put up for Sirius channel 100), but it just doesn't look quite right to me, IMHO. --Aaron 04:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, if you look at the list of xm channels, over half of the channels have pages.TravKoolBreeze 20:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I've just made the area and frequency fields optional; this should not cause any problems, since the fields will appear when used anyway. If you need any help adding additional fields to the infobox, let me know. --Marknew 10:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old Callsigns Field

Could we add a "former_callsigns" field? I think that's the same field name used in the Template:Infobox_Broadcast for television stations... —This unsigned comment was added by User6985 (added link and sig->) Thomas B 13:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)contribs) .

I'll add it if there is no objection posted on this talk page within the next 7 days (today is 6th April, so I'll wait until the 13th). --Marknew 13:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Webstream addition to infobox

How can we add "webcast" to the infobox and when??? Please write me back ASAP!!! --WIKISCRIPPS2K6 THU MAY 4 2006 11:46 PM EDT

[edit] Station class?

What does the class field mean? I found A used in one case. But this doesn't really explain what it means, either to fill in the field, nor to read a station's infobox. EncMstr 20:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

The article about WLS (AM) has such a class field. It appears that, when "class" appears in the infobox, it links to list of broadcast station classes. I think people are currently expected to look there for the explanation before filling or reading the class field. Tim Ivorson 2006-05-27

[edit] Am I Doing this correctly?

I recently added infoboxes to some Toronto area radio stations. I got all my information from [1] and I was just wondering if I put all the information in correctly. Could someone please check the pages below for any errors then tell me on my talk page if I made a mistake, so I won't do it again, because I plan on added radio infoboxes to many Canadian radio station articles.

• CFRB (AM)
• CFTR (AM)
• CFMJ (AM)
• CFXJ-FM
• CHFI-FM
• CHIN (AM)
• CHIN-FM
• CHUM (AM)
• CHUM-FM
• CILQ-FM
• CJAQ-FM

TorontoStorm 00:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I looked at the first few—looks good. EncMstr 04:09, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expand Infobox - Digital Satellite/Cable/Terrestrial/DAB fields

Many of the stations in the UK and Europe are available across a number of platforms, including digital satellite, cable and terrestrial (DTT/DAB) services, take TalkSPORT for example, which broadcasts over a number of platforms. Could someone with the knowledge be able to tweak the box so that these fields can be included, simliar to the way that they can for TV channels in the British TV Channel and TV Networks Template? Sonic 21:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Any objections? Also, would it be a good idea to add RDS name? --AntzUK 19:51, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox radio vs Infobox Radio

There is a redirect from Template:Infobox radio to this page, unfortunately there is also an Template:Infobox Radio page. Is there any need for the redirected page? A little confusion results ;-) --AGoon 02:36, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HD Radio formats

In many markets, stations are beginning to broadcast secondary (and in some cases even tertiary) signals in high definition. I'd like to propose adding an HD2 and HD3 field to the infobox to include those additional broadcast signals. --Mhking 15:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

This issue is more complex than that solution can handle - each HD Channel is separate from the others - it may have its own website, branding, format, etc... A fair number of stations are using one of their FM HD channels to broadcast their existing AM programming. The template needs to be thought through on each item - does this item always apply to every HD channel, or could it be different? Those that could be different need to be in a subtemplate or something... the NAB has made rolling out HD a high priority item for its members, so there is no time to waste thinking about how to deal with this. FCC-License<->Station = 1 to 1 relationship Station<->Channel is 1 to many.StreamingRadioGuide 14:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Widening of Infobox Proposal

We should consider a slight widening of the infobox to prevent the larger phrases and words from wrapping to the next line. For example, KROQ-FM has this problem. I propose just a few extra spaces as I know we can't make it too wide in respect to the page width. I am curious as to whay other may think of this and would love to hear why this would be good or bad. Transent 05:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion Over Airdate

Is the Airdate section of the Infobox refer to the date of sign on for the frequency or the date of the last format change. I propose inclusion of some kind of clarification as I see so many discrepencies when I go from article to article and there seems to be no consensus on this issue. Transent 01:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)