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Disputed move to IHeartRadioCanada
ViperSnake151, while almost certainly operating with good intentions and good faith, has performed one or more WP:BRD moves of Bell Media Radio to IHeartRadio Canada with a rationale that is questionable and possibly inconsistent with one or more Wikipedia policies. He purportedly cites, by way of edit summaries, CRTC ownership charts, but even that shows Bell Media and Bell Media Radio are the WP:CommonName. Moreover, looking to the company's own website, https://www.bellmedia.ca/radio/, I don't see how we should be using IHeartRadio Canada, notwithstanding the noted capitalization issues in that page name. Additionally, we also need to consider that iHeartRadio in the United States is a separate company owner separate ownership.

To me, I think the page names should remain Bell Media and Bell Media Radio, with the lede and opening sentence indicating the legal name, 'Bell Media Radio G.P., and the doing business as name indicated as iHeartRadio, if desired. Doug Mehus (talk) 00:11, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Doug Mehus is definitely more correct about this. Basically, the "iHeartRadio Canada" story is that Bell Media reached an agreement to license iHeartRadio US's streaming app instead of rebuilding the wheel — so "iHeartRadio Canada" is certainly the name of the app you open if you want to listen to CHUM-FM or TSN Radio or Rouge FM on your phone, and should very obviously be addressed as such in this article, but it is not the name of the company that owns the radio stations, which remains Bell Media Radio or some legally convoluted version thereof. The page title should remain Bell Media Radio, with iHeartRadio Canada acknowledged in the introduction as an associated brand but not reified into the actual name of the company. Bearcat (talk) 00:59, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Bearcat, nice to hear from you again. I tried to revert the name to the pre-May 2019 name Bell Media Radio, but I guess my account doesn't have page mover privileges that doesn't leave behind redirects. Do you have such privileges? The draft I created for the redirect is at Draft:Move/Bell_Media_Radio. I figured it would be best to revert the name pending the outcome of this RfC and/or RM, if others feel that'd be more appropriate. Doug Mehus (talk) 01:07, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The PR announcing the Pure Country rebranding from a few months ago contradicts this claim; it does not contain any reference to "Bell Media Radio" (and in fact barely even mentions Bell) ViperSnake151   Talk  03:22, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * CRTC decisions published this year still indicate the licensee's name as either Bell Media Radio or a legally convoluted version of that, such as "Bell Media Radio (Toronto) Inc.", "Bell Media Radio G.P" or "Bell Media Regional Radio Partnership", with no indication whatsoever of "iHeartRadio Canada" being the legal name of anything. That trumps press releases on Canada NewsWire as to the matter of what the company's legal name is or isn't: CRTC is God on that, and corporate PR is not. Also, there's this, which is also quite clear that iHeartRadio Canada is the digital streaming app itself, and not the parent division of the terrestrial radio stations. Actual journalism, by no less an authority on Canadian radio than Karen Bliss. Bearcat (talk) 05:41, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The key question is if this article is about a set of stations under common ownership, or about the company that owns the stations? The press release brands the stations as being different ones under the iHeardRadio Canada brand (as they would appear under the app), but refers to media contacts under Bell Media, the company owning the stations. (Coincidentally, the BCE conglomerate is an example of a company article that was given a different title for a long time—it was named Bell Canada, reflecting its history as the ownership holding company that emerged after deregulation. BCE didn't get its own separate article until 2016.) isaacl (talk) 06:20, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * @isaacl It's a good question of an important nuance. As I proposed to revert the previous WP:BRD move by @ViperSnake151 that is now in dispute, when it was suggested to me as the most appropriate course of remedial action by Brad, I thought about something similar and I thought one action, which might even be amenable to ViperSnake151 is to create a second page called IHeartRadio Canada (subject to Wikipedia capitalization policies, for which I admit I haven't looked into) that could be tagged by type as a brand, streaming service, mobile app/website, or some other type amenable to all parties (I'm agnostic as to what we tag that page) and then revert this page to Bell Media Radio (pre-May 2019), rewriting it to focus mostly being about the company (which we may want to re-tag instead as a Division since it includes various Bell Media Radio corporate machinations described by Bearcat above. I certainly think both pages are notable in their own rights. Could that be something amenable to everyone? Doug Mehus (talk) 12:54, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Further to my previous reply about my proposed alternative possibly amenable to everyone, we would likely want to engage an administrator or senior editor with recommendations on how best to handle the move (i.e., does this page become the page about the radio station owning and operating division, with its list of stations, and we create a new page for IHeartRadio Canada as a streaming service/website/mobile app/brand? Do we do the reverse, creating a new page for the company? Or does that part really matter?) Doug Mehus (talk) 13:03, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * To isaacl's point about the creation of the BCE page, that's an interesting question as to why the existing Bell Canada page wasn't made the holding company page under a new name, to preserve the Talk pages, and a new page created for the holding company. In terms of the BCE page name, I note it includes the "Inc." in the name (it does appear to be named correctly). Is that correct, or should it be "BCE" or "BCE (company)"? Brief thoughts? That may be worthy of an RfC on the BCE Inc. page in its own right. Doug Mehus (talk) 13:10, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As this is a different topic than the subject of this article, extended discussion is better held elsewhere, so I'll just give a very short response to the first question. BCE started as a holding company for Bell Canada and Northern Telecom, without any distinct operations of its own. As BCE spun out Northern Telecom and made other acquisitions over time, it took on its own role as an operating company. So it is a reasonable choice for its corporate history to be told from this point, and to keep Bell Canada's history contiguous with the pre-BCE era. isaacl (talk) 17:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

It's also important to note that the iHeartRadio Canada app is not limited exclusively to Bell-owned stations; rather, stations owned by other companies are also allowed to offer their streams through it via licensing agreements (though few actually do, because why tie yourself to a competitor when there's also TuneIn?) — in actual fact, even a selection of American stations are offered on iHRC under the "Hot Imports" category (though obviously not as many as are available on iHRUS.) So there may in fact be a case to be made that separate articles about Bell Media Radio and iHeartRadio Canada could be viable, if enough reliable sourcing can be found to get the app over WP:GNG — but in the absence of adequate sourcing, iHRC should remain a redirect to Bell Media Radio rather than vice versa, because the corporate division is the primary entity and the app is a subtopic of it, not the other way around. Bearcat (talk) 15:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Per this, the company is still Bell Media. The phrase "Bell Media radio stations are part of iHeartRadio Canada" refers to their presence on the iHR streaming platform - as pointed out above - and an event presentation partnership. There is nothing else present that should have led to this page being moved to its current location. Striker force Talk 14:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, but it's important to point out that this page was originally at Bell Media Radio, which boldly moved here without a discussion (even though it was arguably potentially controversial) in May 2019. I moved it back in August 2019, without an RfC because I didn't know how to do that, consistent with WP:BRD. Therefore, its legitimate place, in absence of consensus otherwise, is back at Bell Media Radio. Moreover, this is not dissimilar from the way in which radio station owner IHeartMedia owns the radio stations and IHeartRadio is the Streaming radio network. For that reason as well, I think this page should be about the corporate division Bell Media Radio, with a separate article created from the redirect page for IHeartRadio Canada as a Streaming radio network. I think that's a move that could literally please everyone. Doug Mehus (talk) 15:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Friendly pings, for his radio industry-related expertise, and for his awesomeness and neutrality. Doug Mehus (talk) 15:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Further reply to, in re-reading your reply, I see you're in agreement with Bearcat, isaacl and I. Apologies for my misunderstanding. Doug Mehus (talk) 15:30, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I spent almost two decades in the radio industry before changing careers a few years ago. Striker force Talk 15:33, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * +1. Are you on RadioWest, by chance? I go by the same username and sometimes get teased/ribbed a bit because I'm probably the only non-radio industry person on that forum. ;) Doug Mehus (talk) 16:01, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Close this – I was summoned here by bot yesterday. Isn't this moot now because of the move closure below?  Unless I'm missing something, Dmehus, you should should withdraw this Rfc as moot. Otherwise the bot might continue bringing people here.  Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 08:47, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Invited by the bot. The plan looks fine. The article is about Bell Media Radio not IHeartRadio Canada.   Fine to make a new article about the latter.North8000 (talk) 21:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 28 August 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. There's consensus here to move back anyway, but generally reverting disputed page moves doesn't need a full RM. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 09:16, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

IHeartRadio Canada → Bell Media Radio – Requesting to revert this disputed page move that, while a bold move done ostensibly in good faith, by ViperSnake151 in May 2019. Consistent with WP:CommonName and other Wikipedia policies, this page name should reflect the operating name of the Bell Media subsidiary, with the lede indicating the legal name. Doug Mehus (talk) 02:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Added note by Page mover - Refer also to WP:RfC above, on this Talk page, at Talk:IHeartRadio Canada. Doug Mehus (talk) 02:25, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. The RFCbot summoned me to the previous section. Per the full version of the press release to which ViperSnake151 refers, "iHeartRadio ... is now in Canada through a partnership between Bell Media and iHeartMedia." Furthermore, if you visit http://www.iheartradio.ca and scroll down to the bottom, it is clear that the owner is Bell Media of which iHeartMedia Canada is one brand of many. The Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy both link to bellmedia.ca, and enumerate several other brands. https://www.bellmedia.ca/about-bellmedia/ states that, "Bell Media is Canada’s largest radio broadcaster, with 109 licensed radio stations.... Bell Media radio stations are part of iHeartRadio Canada," which in turn is referred to as, a "brand and streaming service," at their prospective employee's description at jobs.bce.ca, which suggests that Bell Media is a subsidiary of Bell Canada, which may have been true in the past, but is corrected at http://www.bce.ca/aboutbce/bellcanada/bell-media which states, "Bell Media is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada's largest communications company." (And thus a sibling of Bell Canada. Note that Bell Media's President, Randy Lennox, is the only member of BCE Inc's executive team to be photographed in a light colored suit jacket, but like twelve out of thirteen of the executive team, is male.) EllenCT (talk) 06:39, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Reply to, thanks for the support of the reversion of this move back to Bell Media Radio and for your inclusion of useful added sourcing. I completely agree. I think there may be some merit to creating either an IHeartRadio Canada or IHeartRadio (Canada) page for the streaming radio service, or at least adding a #Canada section of IHeartRadio, but definitely agree we should be reverting this to Bell Media Radio. Doug Mehus (talk) 15:26, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Support per my commentary in the RfC above. Striker force Talk 18:10, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Friendly ping to, did you want to !vote in this page move section, as did? Doug Mehus (talk) 19:15, 31 August 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Streaming radio network affiliation?
With the disputed page move to IHeartRadio Canada now reverted and out of the way, I will say that User:ViperSnake151 raised an interesting point of the separate IHeartRadio streaming radio network affiliation. Looking at Template:Infobox radio station, it seems like the Network parameter is for branding to which a group of stations belong (i.e., Virgin Radio). Could it also be used for a streaming radio network, or would Affiliation be better? I'm going to ping for his expertise on the matter and also issue an RfC to generate a discussion. I'm wondering if this could be a worthwhile project to add such a parameter to the Bell Media Radio station infoboxes? Also, separately, the parameter usage documentation is quite scant, so I'm not quite such what attributes can be used with each parameter (specifically, the two mentioned). Should we initiate a separate RfC on that template's Talk page?

Note: When this RfC is closed, please ensure it's closed by adding the proper beginning, end, and result tags to this RfC. Thanks. Doug Mehus (talk) 15:43, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * What are "the proper beginning, end, and result tags"? I am aware of and, but which is the third one? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 16:39, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , Yeah, those are the ones. I realize they're technically optional, but they do help to keep things tidy. ;) Doug Mehus (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

"IHeartRadio Canada" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect IHeartRadio Canada. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Doug Mehus (talk) 22:20, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Create Bounce Radio page
A page should be created for the new network Bounce Radio. Can someone do that please? 199.7.159.90 (talk) 15:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Done. BrutallySour (talk) 17:42, 27 May 2021 (UTC)