Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/WINC (AM)

WINC (AM)

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 26, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 22:49, 17 June 2014 (UTC)



WINC (1400 AM) is a broadcast radio station licensed to Winchester, Virginia, United States. WINC serves Winchester along with Frederick and Clarke Counties in Virginia. The station's current format, established in 1996, consists mostly of conservative talk programs and top-of-the-hour news from Fox News Radio; sports at Virginia Tech are also covered. Launched on June 26, 1941, by Richard Field Lewis, Jr., WINC was Winchester's first radio station. Events in its history include a 1947 contest to win "a free pair of nylon hose and a $10 handbag" that knocked out the city's entire telephone system, and country music legend Patsy Cline making her performing debut in 1948. In the late 1950s, the station's chief engineer designed a CONELRAD alarm device for FM stations to warn listeners in the event of enemy attack during the Cold War. WINC had difficulty renewing its license in the early 1970s, as it was exceeding Federal Communications Commission limits on commercials per hour. In 1988, a local prosecutor called one of its promotions an "illegal cash lottery"; a judge disagreed. The station was sold by the Lewis family to North Carolina-based Centennial Broadcasting in 2007.
 * Most recent similar article(s): None, page is the first radio station article to reach Featured Article status.
 * Main editors: User:Neutralhomer
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: For date relevance, June 26, 2014 will be the 73rd Anniversary of the station's first broadcast. For other reasons, the article is the first radio station article to reach Featured Article status.  The page was only the 6th article to reach Good Article status (prior to being promoted to FA).  Just to note, in the interest of full disclosure, if promoted this will be my second TFA.  The first being the Stephens City, Virginia article on September 5, 2010.
 * Support as nominator.  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:43, 21 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: sounds good, but you give us more details in about 200 more chars of blurb. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I added 214 characters more, fixed a date goof while I was at it. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 09:08, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Good try, now 100 too long ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:45, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Got it down to 1,210 characters. Having trouble trimming those last 10. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 10:03, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've been through it a dozen times or so, I don't know how or where to trim those last 10 characters. :S -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 10:15, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support unusual article, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 10:46, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Rejigged slightly and now it's 1,191. BencherliteTalk 10:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) Much appreciated! -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 10:56, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:42, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Sir. Much appreciated. :) -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 17:48, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, most interesting and high quality page. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:47, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! :) -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 17:36, 26 May 2014 (UTC)