Talk:WCKL (FM)

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Disco Demolition Night Thursday, July 12, 1979 - Old Comiskey Park Chicago, Illinois what is often termed the "Anti-Disco Riot". Didn't The Loop sponsor this? There should probably be a section in the article for this event.

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BetacommandBot 01:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but the entire historical section of this article titled "Frequency use prior to WLUP" is HOPELESSLY wrong. Whoever wrote this has confused two different but nearby (on the dial) FM stations. Part of the problem here is that the company that operates a radio station assigned a particular frequency IS NOT the same as the station itself, which is tied to that specific frequency. When a station is sold, the frequency goes to the new owner. A sold station DOES NOT CHANGE frequencies. However, an owner might change the station(s) it owns by buying or selling.

That entire history given here for WLUP that mentions WSDM and its predecessor is in error: it is the history of the station at 95.5 FM -- better known today as WNUA. As a long-time jazz fan, I of course listened to WSDM 95.5 FM, the station with all the girl deejays, for nearly 15 years while I was growing up. Therefore, I know the difference between the two stations/frequencies and what they were before they were sold to their current owners. Moreover, WLUP was already in existence and playing rock music while WSDM was still on the air: back in 1977, I was married and my now ex was listening to WLUP mornings during our commute, and I had to fight him to change channels to WSDM because I couldn't stand rock music that early in the day. Yet according to this page, those stations never coexisted; that's just plain wrong.

Whoever wrote the pages for WLUP-FM and WNUA-FM (formerly WSDM) bungled this completely. I have to wonder if this person even lives or lived in Chicago and ever listened to either station during the 1980s and 1990s, it's that badly botched.Mrtraska (talk) 23:52, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

With the soon to be call-sign change to WCKL-FM, the edited information on the WLUP-FM Wikipedia page should be transferred to the new WCKL-FM Wikipedia page, thus rendering the information currently on the WLUP-FM Wikipedia page to change back to its original state from March 9th, 2018 with appropriate edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radxr3 (talk • contribs) 04:29, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, radio station articles cover the station's entire history dating back to when the station was first licensed — we don't create new pages every time the call letters change, we instead just rename the article. Occasionally, there are some exceptions, such as when a new WLVO article was created after EMF bought the former WBRU license in Providence — but that is an exception that proves the rule, as the WLVO article does cover the station's entire history, dating back to WPFM in 1955, in a way the WBRU article didn't quite do (since that article instead follows the even longer history of radio at Brown University in general dating to 1936, well before the 1965 acquisition of WPFM; in addition, the post-license-sale continuation of WBRU seems a bit more substantial than Cumulus' WKQX-HD2 continuation of "The Loop"). However, the existing WLUP-FM article does cover the station's days (dating to the 1940s) as W83C, WEHS, WHFC, and WSDM in addition to its run as WLUP "The Loop" since 1977; I also don't really see anything requiring a split at this time. (I'll also note that reverting the WLUP-FM article back to March 9 would actually remove some edits made about the earlier history of the station — at that time, it claimed that the then-WEHS signed on some time in the 1950s, rather than 1945 as it now says.) --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]