Template talk:Akron Radio

WQAT
I've removed WQAT, again. It is not a station, LP or otherwise. If it's a pirate, generally, these are not listed in templates...and it's not getting past the guy's house if it is. 174.252.199.44 (talk) 06:25, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Inclusion of WKSU
Because Wikipedia has a character limit for edit summaries, this is a comprehensive list explaining my past and current restorations of WKSU onto the Akron radio template, many of which are exceptions to the "one station in only one media market template" rule of sorts: I'm sorry, but these circumstances alone are why WKSU needs to be listed in both the Cleveland and Akron templates. Leaving it out of the Akron template is a major omission and factually incorrect. Nathan Obral • he/him • t  •  c  • 17:08, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) Unlike WAKS and WARF, which in the former is an Akron station solely by city of license (COL) and the latter a Cleveland station "on paper" despite no changes to the transmitter and COL (and honestly was only possible after the FCC scrapped the main studio rule) WKSU is still actively promoted as an Akron station along with the Cleveland addition.
 * 2) Yes, WKSU will move the main studio to the Idea Center in Downtown Cleveland, but the actual date of that happening is still undetermined. As of right now, they are still at the Kent State University campus until the move can physically take place.
 * 3) In order for Ideastream to assume programming control of WKSU-FM, they agreed to operate the station as a dual-market one, serving both Cleveland and Akron. It's not an accident; there was and is no way that WKSU could abandon the Akron market outright without angering the majority of WKSU's listeners and donors. Plus Ideastream made WKSU the NPR primary for both markets because WKSU had been a core NPR station for far longer than WCPN ever was. Otherwise, it'd be the other way around.
 * 4) The station currently known as WCLV will become a WKSU repeater to help fill in a very obvious coverage cap for WKSU in the western side of the Cleveland market, as this map clearly shows.
 * 5) Template:Canton Radio, Template:Mid-Ohio Radio, Template:Ashtabula Radio and Template:Sandusky Radio all list WKSU's repeaters because their signals reach those respective areas. Why should WKSU be left out of the most obvious template? It just does not make any sense!


 * No big deal, and not worth losing sleep over. Like I said, I've seen so much "Akron/Cleveland" and "Cleveland/Akron", that it's just instinct to assume that CLE is the main focus, and AKR is there for lip service, because that's how it usually works.  Let me say this though...everyone's saying all the right things now during the proverbial honeymoon period, but just don't be shocked if once we get into the slog and grind of day-to-day ops it falls into the same pattern as all the rest. Vjmlhds (talk) 14:33, 31 October 2021 (UTC)