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I went ahead and added the tower location to WGYS (if the signal is worth mentioning, its tower is too). I doubt a separate channel for the same station warrants its own article, so the WGYS link in Rimshot (broadcasting) redirects here. Orethrius 03:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Switch to George 104.1

Given that this just happened, I wrote up a quick summary of the events that took place. If someone could clean it up, and change whatever needs to be done, that would be great. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.86.44.23 (talk) 21:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Someone might want to note that WBJC from Baltimore Community College is 100% classical music, 100% commercial free, and is heard in the Washington area as well. --Paul Nahay, pnahay@sprynet.com

--4.160.219.159 03:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation issue

There's a slight problem: WETA now uses the WGMS call sign for its repeater station. I got into this in the Washington FM template talk page:

The old one has clearly died, but the call letters live on — bequeathed to WETA in WGMS's last will and testament. That could get confusing for people who don't know the D.C. radio market, and presumably, that's who we write these articles for.

Does it make sense to have WGMS in the template twice — once as a defunct station, and in another place with a link to WETA — or do we need to disambiguate the titles somehow?

For what it's worth, I see more sense in turning WGMS (FM) into a disambiguation page, with one link to the current content at, maybe, WGMS (classical music station), and a separate line explaining that the call sign now belongs to a repeater station for WETA. Or you could redirect WGMS (FM) to WETA, put a line at the top saying:

WGMS (FM) redirects here. For the former commercial radio station in Washington, D.C., with a similar format, see WGMS (classical music station).

... and point the 'past stations' link in the Washington FM template to the latter page.

We probably need to come up with a better disambiguation — they're both classical music stations, after all — but there has to be some way to handle this. Thoughts? —GGreeneVa 01:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Or maybe "WGMS (defunct commercial station)" can do the trick. I dunno -- help me out here, y'all. —GGreeneVa 01:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Any thoughts on how to address this issue? For the sake of keeping the discussion in one place, let me suggest commenting at the Washington FM template talk page; considering that this affects two radio station articles and that template, it seemed like the best place to have the conversation. —GGreeneVa 01:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mix Up

  • It's too late, The Washington D.C. area has two full-time classical music station, WBJC and WETA, which both admit to broadcasting classical music all the time. - But, some people insist WBJC's signal from Baltimore can be heard clearly in Washington D.C!!!!!

--4.160.219.159 03:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]