Template:Did you know nominations/KPRB (Oregon)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:21, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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KPRB (Oregon)

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  • ... that one owner of radio station KPRB sold it to devote himself to his duties as the fire chief of Redmond, Oregon? Source

Created by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 19:50, 5 October 2019 (UTC).

  • New enough and long enough. Free of copyright problems as far as I can tell. There are sufficient references; due to the opaque nature of ref 3, I cannot confirm that it actually verifies everything cited to it in the paragraph the hook comes from. Can you point me to the right place? Also; the sentence fragment "It signed on the air in 1952 and was taken silent in 1994" in the lead is very odd; if the phrase "taken silent" is really grammatical in radio speak, I would really like to see a link for it; and why not just say "...went on air" for the first bit? Otherwise; QPQ done, hook looks good. Vanamonde (Talk) 00:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Vanamonde93: So that's an FCC history card. It contains a chronological list of station applications and other actions from when the station was first filed for up until the early 1980s (when the FCC computerized new records). Page 10 of the PDF has the Anderson sale (file number BAL-3539 on the left hand column). Page 11 has the power increase (BL-15,377) and the Miller sale attempt (BAL-6473 at the bottom, note the "Not Consummated" in the last column). The Combs sale is on page 13. These were used internally at the FCC with little change in practice between the 1930s and the early 80s; for stations that were around in the early 80s, the FCC now has these cards digitized. I have made the other fixes to add a link to Dark (broadcasting) for "taken silent". Raymie (t • c) 05:26, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Vanamonde93: Pinging again (when I did this two weeks ago it might not have worked by mistake.) Raymie (t • c) 23:30, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Per previous review; my quibbles have been addressed. Vanamonde (Talk) 01:51, 26 October 2019 (UTC)