Talk:WLNG

Recent changes

Rescued deadlinked sources from archive. Clarified the broadcast area: narrowed the text to the very words used on the WLNG website: East Long Island and the Hamptons. Quoted and cited its reported reception area from a separate source. Sourced other unsourced claims with named refs, added attribution as needed. Copyedited the plane crash incident for neutrality, per sources, added attribution. --Lexein (talk) 00:33, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Brought the lede out, updated the infobox, moved the image of the studios from under the infobox to the left, moved some of the extra external links to a "See also" section, updated the webstream link, and updated some of the external links. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:16, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Three content problems addressed

I think I know what was driving the deletions:

• "Target market" - a touchy subject, for a variety of reasons. It now matches the current WLNG website.
• "Advertising" - out of context of the source articles, it read as biased. Rephrased.
• "Carnival" - not supported by sources; it escaped my attention while fact-checking. It's gone.

I personally want additional independent sources to support the TWA800 reporting claims, eventually, such as news reports from the period about WLNG. --Lexein (talk) 03:43, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

I added new sources (one from a book, the other from a news release from the New York State Broadcasters Association) about the TWA 800 broadcasts. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:28, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Cool book find. Now I understand the carnival reference - that's where Paul was interviewing firefighters, then followed them to the crash scene. Makes sense. Still, best left as written in the article. --Lexein (talk) 01:25, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I didn't see the need to readd the carnival part to the sentence, seemed like unnecessary information. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 14:42, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Station photo

Ok, since that tower isn't the broadcast tower, is it the microwave link to the transmitter tower? --Lexein (talk) 05:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Sources

• "Paul Sidney: ‘An Oldie but Goodie’". The Suffolk Times. Tim Gould. October 1997 or earlier. (via WLNG, via archive.org)
• "WLNG'S Paul Sidney, An East End goodie who likes playing oldies". NewsDay. [Nassau and Suffolk Edition]. Caryn Eve Murray, March 28, 2004, pg. G2.
• "WLNG Stream Report". Live365 ratings reports from 2004 to 2010. (via WLNG, via archive.org). Primary source.
• "L.I. Radio: Two Markets". NY Times. January 15, 1989. Letter from Joseph J. Sullivan, Jr., WBAZ President and general manager. Mentions Birch Research, which distinguishes between two L.I. markets: "Nassau and western Suffolk is one and Long Island's East End is the other." Arbitron considers them a single market.
• "BOOKS: Insightful look at rise and reinvention of radio" Miller, Roger K. The Atlanta Journal - Constitution [Atlanta, Ga 7 January 2007. Review of Fisher: Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation. "Sidney and WLNG have achieved what Fisher maintains has been sorely lacking: radio's emotional bond, its sense of intimacy and community"
• Three editorials about Paul Sidney and WLNG. Sag Harbor Express. April 10, 2009.

Leads to sources

• "Surf's up for Amidon in the mornings on The Wave". Los Angeles Daily News, Richard Wagoner, May 14, 2010. Includes reader statement of WLNG's 10,000 song playlist. (weak, but a lead, anyways)

--Lexein (talk) 18:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)