Talk:WWL (AM)

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[edit] Clear channel *yes*, Clear Channel Communications no

WWL has the rare legal status of operating on a clear channel frequency, making it a clear channel radio station. This generic use of the term is several generations old. This is also an extremely important fact about WWL that should be mentioned towards the top of the article, even in the first paragraph.

Clear Channel Communications is a radio company, lately infamous, that took the name. The company doesn't have anything to do with a radio station and its frequency being a clear channel or not.

Clear channel are technical parameters for a set radio stations; Clear Channel Communications is a company that owns some radio stations, very few of which are clear channel stations.

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln famously called one of Douglas' arguments "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." That's about what we have here!

...Then again, on Wikipedia, Lincoln is a disambiguation...

*sigh* Just watch out for the difference, folks. :)

Thoughts and prayers for anyone in WWL's daytime listening area... :\ Samaritan 20:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Classical

I don't understand the statement that the station didn't play Classical music because they were owned by Loyola. How does that follow? Puzzled, -- Infrogmation 02:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• I thought WWL-AM in New Orleans was an PBS station, and there were no commercials when the announcers were talking about Hurricane Katrina at that time, and also directly with the mayor. --65.54.155.35 06:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• • I think the reason they weren't playing commericals was because regular programing went out the window during the emergency. -- Infrogmation 14:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• • I removed the statement that the station "didn't broadcast any live classical music programming at that time, as it was owned by LU" as I still havn't gotten an explanation for it and it makes no sence to me. -- Infrogmation 15:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• • • Contrary to what a lot of people think, Universities DID own commercial, for-profit TV and Radio stations, KOMU in Columbia MO is an NBC affiliate owned by the University of Missouri. Tknab 20:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)