Talk:Doug Stephan

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The introduction to this article does not make it clear what nation the show is "nationally syndicated" in. It appears to be the US, based on some hints in the article. Could someone who is more familiar with the topic please update to make his clear. Stardust8212 03:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Good Day Weekend

The last paragraph is out of date. As of maybe six months ago, the weekend show was renamed "Good Day Weekend" as the earlier paragraph describes. The weekend show consists of three one hour segments - one is talking with a doctor, one is talking about financial issues, and there was an hour talking about home and garden issues (the web site now lists the doctor as two hours). Some stations still play the Friday edition of Talk Radio Countdown during the weekend, but it is Good Day Weekend that is live.StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 16:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Plagiarizing material from other programs

Just to keep editors on alert. Doug Stephan was caught "lifting" calls from "over 48 different talk radio programs." This material was edited to exclude the caller's interactions with the original hosts, repackaged with reaction dialogue from Doug to give the illusion of a live conversation, and falsely presented to listeners of Doug's program as live calls in to his own program. When so presented, Doug would often misidentify the callers as having different names and coming from different cities as the "lifted" original. This is an unfolding story, and will likely receive coverage in industry periodicals. Expect this issue to be an edit issue for this article, be cautious of the language used to describe these incidents, be aware of the special editing rules surrounding biographies of living persons, and expect vandalism from listeners of talk show programs as this story gains a wider audience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.166.144.196 (talk) 20:10, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

An editor has attempted to add positive material to the article while deleting this controversy, despite its coverage both on well-reputed trade magazines for the affected industry and in regional radio news as referenced in the article. This editor has not justified any of these changes to the article on this talk page. Addisonstrack (talk) 15:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Has this storm in a tea cup been reported in any national newspapers or any WP:RS? Off2riorob (talk) 16:01, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I have removed this "material" as well. Can folks post a few more citations here before readding this? Can the citations be discussed as far as there notability and reliabilty? TIA --Threeafterthree (talk) 18:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

We've got one reliable, published trade publication for the industry covering the incident, one popular, well-read news blog that covers the industry, and a link to an interview of the subject of the biography on a news and talk program where he affirms the allegations described in the paragraph and apologizes. That covers it as far as reliability is concerned. As far as notability goes, for the industry, given its coverage in both of these articles and the nature of the incident, it is as notable as most of the material in the article. Finally, as a matter of editorial tone, you both should take note that when disagreeing with other editors, inappropriately using "sarcasm quotes" and minimizing other editors work with phrases such as "storm in a tea cup" is frowned upon. We're here to amicably resolve edit disputes, not inflame the sentiments of other editors. Addisonstrack (talk) 15:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Name

I have occasion to listen to Good Day quite a bit. My normally late-night existence combined with living in a smallish radio market means that after a certain hour, Stephan and Bob Parlocha are my only possible hopes of escaping corporate radio monotony (After MidNite? No thank you.). Stephan repeatedly refers to himself on-air as "Dudley" and has indicated a number of times that this is his legal first name. It's unclear to me whether "Doug" is a nickname, a variation on his middle name, or what else. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 20:44, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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