This article COMPLETELY IGNORES the history of WSCR as WMAQ. Anyone know why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSCR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSCR
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Who Wrote This Wikipedia Article About WSCR?
- Thread starter Schroedingers Cat
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Schroedingers Cat said:
Probably because WMAQ has its own page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAQ_(AM)
Shouldn't the WSCR page link directly to the WMAQ page?
By my count WSCR has "been" 5 different stations.
The Pennsylvania, the Connecticut, and the 3 Chicago frequencies of 820, 1160 and the 670.
If you think more in terms of the Chicago's "The Score' branding, then it has been "on" three different stations.
Stations don't move frequencies (not very often, anyway).
Format and branded audio named thingys move from station to statioon as facilities are bought and sold
and/or owned by one corporation.
Stations are properly the physical plant facilities that make an RF signal.
Content can be from anywhere today, this has nothing to do with the "station".
Station is a geographical concept regarding coverage.
It is also a location frequency-wise.
Branding is not the station, even as much as corporations would like us to think that way.
No matter what happens I'll always "know" 670 is WMAQ, 1160 is WJJD, etc.
Even though there may be have been earlier calls to any station, I mentally catalog whatever the call was
when I made note 40-some years ago.
It's like out way east where people refer to your house by the name of the people who used to live there.
After YOU leave, your house will be known to the new people as the old (insert your name)'s place.
The Pennsylvania, the Connecticut, and the 3 Chicago frequencies of 820, 1160 and the 670.
If you think more in terms of the Chicago's "The Score' branding, then it has been "on" three different stations.
Stations don't move frequencies (not very often, anyway).
Format and branded audio named thingys move from station to statioon as facilities are bought and sold
and/or owned by one corporation.
Stations are properly the physical plant facilities that make an RF signal.
Content can be from anywhere today, this has nothing to do with the "station".
Station is a geographical concept regarding coverage.
It is also a location frequency-wise.
Branding is not the station, even as much as corporations would like us to think that way.
No matter what happens I'll always "know" 670 is WMAQ, 1160 is WJJD, etc.
Even though there may be have been earlier calls to any station, I mentally catalog whatever the call was
when I made note 40-some years ago.
It's like out way east where people refer to your house by the name of the people who used to live there.
After YOU leave, your house will be known to the new people as the old (insert your name)'s place.
Schroedingers Cat said:
I suspect that the person who wrote it was following the format and not the facility. And they did not do that too well, either.
I've found that Wikipedia is the Bermuda Triangle of information, where facts go to be lost and where urban legends are born.
It's often a good place to start, but any decision based purely on the wiki for a subject is not a well researched decision.
Typically, notable former stations with a long history get their own articles, even if they are no longer in existence. Keeping WMAQ and WSCR as separate articles just makes things easier.
FightingIrish said:
I suppose that is one way to look at it.
But WSCR is a format that has moved from one station to another, taking the calls with it.
670 in Chicago and its pre-670 early assignment is one station, no matter what the calls are.
The WMAQ brand is as long gone from Chicago radio as "Monitor" and everything else that one could once-upon-a-time find on 670. The historic call letters continue on television, but even there, the branding is "NBC 5" and/or "NBC Chicago.
The WMAQ call letters also grace an old building out in Bloomingdale, but that's about it. I have a mental picture of 20-somethings driving by that transmitter site wondering "what's a WMAQ"?
The WMAQ call letters also grace an old building out in Bloomingdale, but that's about it. I have a mental picture of 20-somethings driving by that transmitter site wondering "what's a WMAQ"?
cyberdad said:
Darn--I was just going to tune into WMAQ for the latest episode of "Fibber Magee and Molly".
cyberdad said:
Well one thing for sure, before I go to bed I'm going to listen to Jack Eigen.
radioman148 said:
WMAQ's gonna make me rich!
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