Talk:J-Wave

Song of the Year
I'm not sure where the songs on this list are coming from. If you're basing it on the Tokio Hot 100, none of the songs correspond with the Number One's on the "for the year" list on the J-Wave site. Paladin.cross (talk) 02:35, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Name of the station
In Japan, Sony has itself referred to in adverts as "SONY". For all I know, J-Wave has itself referred to as "J-WAVE". If so, this would be merely its typographic preference: "WAVE" does not stand for anything and the station is referred to in conversation not as ジェイ・ダブリュ・エイ・ヴィ・イー (jei daburyu ei vi ii) or similar but instead as ジェイ・ウェイヴ (jei weivu). Thus the capitalization of "WAVE" can be disregarded as a mere matter of corporate vanity, and I've moved the article -- which of course requires a huge amount of improvement -- from "J-WAVE" to "J-Wave". Hoary 03:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

"Features"
It seems as if the page was a computer generated translation of the original Japanese text. Makes most of the time no sense. So I tried to make sense of the "features" section with the help of the original. Can somebody check wether the content is okay? FMB 12:15, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've done that, other than for the last section, whose Japanese version I don't understand (perhaps in part because I haven't yet had my first coffee of the day).


 * As somebody who has frequently been subjected to the saccharine sound of "Jeeeey Weeeeebu", I'm inclined to delete the whole article and write something very much terser and less reverent. ("Supplier of advertising, creepy jingles, inane chat, and the blandest imaginable music to Japan's less discriminating hairdressing salons"?) I'll try to resist the temptation. -- Hoary 22:19, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Now the section looks much better. I was so confused by it that I didn't really know how to come up with the right words. FMB 08:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It sounds confusing to me, a Canadian radio listener. But I tried my best to make things look readable at best. Phil-hong 08:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I've had another quick look at it. The trouble is, the original looked like an retreat of PR-talk. Really, this is just yet another radio station that puts out commercials, jingles, and commercial pap muzak. -- Hoary 09:03, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not too sure about the statements this article has (like being "rebellious") but I made the article at least a little more neutral. The translation from the Japanese Wikipedia article as I can see made these statements and it's probably commercial banter. But no matter what if these statements are correct or not, they're probably part of the station image, like for CHFI 98.1 in Toronto, which is the next place I'll try to fix they consider themselves as "Toronto's Light Music" to the chagrin of rival stations. Phil-hong 05:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Phil, what you write is a bit ambiguous, leaving open the possibility that you think it's OK to describe a radio station according to its own image of itself, regardless of truth value. I guess and hope that this is not your intended meaning. Anyway, I removed the reasoning (?) for the use of the term nabigeeta because that reasoning made no sense even on its own terms. -- Hoary 07:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Ambiguous or not, that's not my writing. Actually, it was my interpretation of whatever was on there before I started editing it which was, ambiguous to English-speakers. What I know is there is commercial branding, but I didn't say that the whole article should be based on it. I have no idea if what the Japanese Wikipedia lists under this article is a PR-type biography, but I gave my benefit of the doubt and just translate the stuff the best I can. It doesn't form the whole article, of course, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be putting in what the subject thinks of itself. All about balance. I don't believe in commercialism, but I don't think I should force my opinion on others in what is supposed to be a neutral article. Phil-hong 07:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)