Talk:List of radio stations in Florida

Untitled

Where is the Melbourne market?cmulgrew 05:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

It might be listed under Orlando (i.e. Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne), but that might be a television market definition and not radio. Good question. -- SwissCelt 18:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Rework

This list was in extremely poor condition. I have reordered the markets by market size, named them as per the Arbitron definitions, and added spaces for all of the markets. The list is quite incomplete, and there is a lack of consistency in how the stations are listed. I'm not going to try and tackle the whole thing by myself, although I will take care of the Gainesville/Ocala stations soon.

As a side note, the templates for the markets are poorly named. I am going to look into getting the current ones renamed (as per the Arbitron defs) or create new ones and merge the old data into the new templates. The five largest markets are broken into separate AM and FM templates, while the rest are lumped together in one. I'm not sure of the rationale behind that decision when the templates were created, but I'd like to see about creating separate templates for each.

Horologium talk - contrib 20:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

About Key West radio

I cannot believe that there is an Clear Channel radio station in Key West, Florida does have a four-hour classical music program on Sundays, and not a single local PBS station exists in the entire Florida Keys, except south of Miami.

--4.188.102.155 01:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

• This is unheard of, but should Key West, Florida get their own local PBS station in the future to broadcast a better presentation of classical music and "fine arts" to the Florida Keys, but also including Miami.

• Are you complaining about the list, or the lack of a station? If you are upset about the lack of a station, Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue. We cannot will a station into existence. Horologium t-c 01:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

• Uh, no, I was NOT complaining about the lack of a Key West station, nor either the FM listings. The comments could had come from a Key West radio station on Fridays, or someone else unrelated to the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.160.45.115 (talk) . Please sign your posts.

• Hmmm. I really have no idea what your comments are about. Perhaps you could refactor them so that they are a bit more grammatically coherent. The first post seems to be saying something about a Clear Channel station with a classical music program. Are you referring to Clear Channel, the company, or clear channel, the concept? As to Miami, they are separate markets, and with ≈ 180 miles between Key West and Miami, they cannot be the same market without extensive use of repeaters. The second post seems to be anger that Key West does not have a "PBS" station (should be NPR, as PBS is television) of its own, which is something which would be better addressed to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the congressional representative for the Florida Keys.Horologium t-c 00:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Tallahassee is home to Florida State University, and the classical music station there is run by the university, like the one in Gainesville.

• Here is a strange link: [1] Is this for real?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.160.216.214 (talk) . Please sign your posts.

• Okay, this is what I have so far. WKEY is a Clear Channel owned Adult Contemporary station that broadcasts a classical program on Sunday morning. Bill Lorraine is the DJ for that program (as per the link you provided). All of the Florida Keys, including Key West, have access to NPR through repeaters rebroadcasting WLRN-FM, the Miami NPR station, but there is no local NPR outlet. There is no non-commercial station in Key West which airs a predominantly Classical music format. This lack displeases you. Am I getting warm? Horologium t-c 16:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you are getting warm, I should have told them, I am no longer in Florida. But I have no time to answer these questions, I have no idea if Gainesville and Orlando has an full-time classical music station.. --4.161.5.225 01:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Both Gainesville and Orlando have classical music stations. WUFT-FM in Gainesville is run by the University of Florida, while WMFE in Orlando is operated by a community broadcasting corporation. Both of these areas have something else that Key West lacks--population. The Orlando metro area has about 2,000,000 people, while metro Gainesville has about 250,000. Monroe Country, the county in which Key West is located, has less than 80,000 people, which is too small a population to effectively support a 24 hour classical music station. Since Key West does not have a large university, it is unlikely to get its own station in the near future. Horologium t-c 05:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I am sure that if every city in Florida should support an full-time classical music station, except WFSQ from Tallahaasee exists, which has unsuccessfully added mini-transmitters to other Florida cities, cause there are too many NPR stations available?

--4.160.207.116 06:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Tallahassee is home to Florida State University, and the classical music station there is run by the university, like the one in Gainesville. Both UF and FSU are very large universities (UF is the third largest in the country), and consequently they have a big enough student base to justify university-based radio stations, which often broadcast NPR and classical programs. Most of Florida's smaller markets don't have the market for such a station, and most of them adjacent to and in range of one of the bigger cities that do have one. Key West and Sebring are the only markets that don't, and they are the two smallest markets in the state.

Station to stop broadcasting over radio waves

How will this list deal with stations that stop broadcasting over radio waves? WLOQ in Winter Park, FL stopped broadcasting on traditional radio, but will still have a presence online. I tuned in to 103.1 FM, their former frequency, and heard 4 Elvis Presley songs in a row! I can't find anything online about this change (except on Facebook), but they don't say who will take over the radio frequency. Babowman (talk) 03:17, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on List of radio stations in Florida. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090825071957/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html to http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/FMq.html
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090825063614/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html to http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:49, 23 May 2017 (UTC)