Talk:WMAQ (AM)

Merging?
WMAQ and WSCR are two seperate entities, each worthy of seperate articles. WMAQ, while defunct, has a deep history very worthy of an article spanning multiple pages. WSCR's only relation to WMAQ is it took over the frequency in a corporate takeover/FCC required restructuring. Electrawn 08:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I placed the merge message on both pages because, while they are seperate stations, both shared the same frequency. It's kind of the same deal for WNBC (AM) and WFAN in New York, but there isn't a separate page for WNBC's history; it's included within the WFAN entry. Rollosmokes 17:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes; but then, WHN wasn't merged into WFAN; it was merged into WEPN instead. These station frequency changes make things a bit awkward, admittedly.  It's also worth nothing that both this WMAQ (AM) article and the WNBC (AM) section of the WFAN article are shorter than a stations with that kind of history should have.  The WSCR article isn't all that big either.  My take on it is: wait for WMAQ (AM) to be fleshed out a bit, which I'm sure it can be; if, after a while, it's not enough to stand on its own, dump it into WSCR. --Closeapple 12:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * And the ironic thing is that both WFAN and WSCR were once owned by NBC, and are now sports stations owned by CBS. CoolKatt number 99999 05:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed the merge tag. See the discussion under Talk:WSCR. I don't know what the background of WFAN is, but WMAQ did not morph into WSCR in the same way that WCFL became WLUP-AM and then WMVP, and then was purchased by ESPN. I agree that more could be done in developing the history of WMAQ radio.--Busjack 03:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

History of WMAQ from 1922- 1935 by Tom Gootee
Index to document A copy of this was given to former WMAQ-TV reporter Rich Samuels when he was still with the televiion station and just prior to the move from the Merchandise Mart to the NBC Tower. Samuels has been an unofficial WMAQ historian for some time. His website covering the history of both the radio and television stations is a source for much information on them. Samuels has yet to discover who Tom Gootee was, but it's evident he was an employee of WMAQ and documented the early days of the radio station for his employer. Some of his written history was used in the Billboard special NBC 25th Anniversary section of December 1, 1951--pages 52 to 54. While I'm searching the American Radio History site, I'm finding more and more evidence re: his written information being used in various ads promoting WMAQ, such as the information that the station was the first in Chicago to employ full crystal control at Elmhurst in 1929: Gootee Broadcasting Magazine ad of April 14, 1947. I'm proposing that Tom Gootee's account of WMAQ's history from 1922 to 1935 be considered a reliable source for this article. We hope (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Merging WMAQ (AM) -> WSCR
It may have made sense 14 years ago, but to be blunt, Wikipedia articles about radio and television articles should be following the broadcast licenses. WSCR's history from 1992 to 1996 is already covered in WCPT (AM) and from 1996 to 2000 on WYLL. It makes no sense to have this as a separate article whatsoever (and the WNBC (AM) and WFAN articles cited above need to be merged as well).

I would like to know everyone's thoughts on the matter. Nathan Obral (talk) 03:09, 19 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Support merger. There is no reason for two separate articles. Only a small fraction of the content in WSCR's article is related to "The Score"'s history on 820 and 1160, and these periods are already covered in greater detail in the articles for WCPT and WYLL.--Tdl1060 (talk) 21:20, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Support: I can see why one might want to keep WMAQ's long history separate from WSCR… but given that "The Score"'s pre-2000 history, on the stations that are now WCPT and WYLL, is seemingly all but glossed over in WSCR's own article (and what little is there can probably still be incorporated into a merged article in some form, anyway), I can't really see any reason not to merge, either. (The impression I get is that the separate articles came about because, at one point circa 2005, there was a "WSCR" article that apparently focused far more on the pre-2000 WMAQ and was barely even about "The Score" at all, and was moved accordingly. That article, which wound up at WMAQ Radio, ended up proving to be a copyvio and was deleted.) -- WC  Quidditch  ☎   ✎  03:53, 21 January 2020 (UTC)