Talk:CKLP-FM

This article is about a single station, but the current operators, Moose FM, runs about a dozen identical stations stretched across the area. I get the signal from Bancroft, which is hundreds of kilometers away. I'm not very familiar with radio articles, but it would see this level of detail is too granular for modern broadcasts (which are often syndicated and/or simulcast), so what's the basic style for writing about the channel like Moose "as a whole"? @Bearcat: Maury Markowitz (talk)

Just because different radio stations have the same branding doesn't mean they're the same station: Moose FM is not one thing, it's twelve things with the same name. For example, if you check various Moose FM web streams, it's easy to verify that they are not consistently playing the same songs, or the same commercials, at the same time as each other — on a random spotcheck a few minutes ago, Moose FM Parry Sound was playing Taylor Swift, Moose FM Bancroft was playing Prince, and Moose FM Elliot Lake was playing Lawrence Gowan. I'll grant that there may possibly be some shared programming overnight and on weekends, but they do not air the same programming 24/7, so they're separate stations and not just one station with 12 rebroadcasters. So each station has its own article detailing its own history as a station, and the group as a whole has an overview article at Vista Radio. If you live in Bancroft, then what you're looking for is CHMS-FM. Bearcat (talk) 16:42, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I get that, but where is the article on Moose? If you try to find it, you get the article for the single station, which as you note, is not really what you're looking for. I compare this to CBC Radio One, which appears to be a similar situation, its a "brand" that is applied to many stations and I don't think you can identify one single station as that brand. I will use that as the template. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:15, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

CBC Radio One is not a "station", it is a network that consists of about 30 stations. Most CBC Radio programming is shared across the entire network — you're going to hear Q and Ideas and As It Happens on every CBC Radio station across the country, but each station also produces a bit of its own original programming in certain time slots within what's mostly the same schedule nationwide — so we have an article about the network, and we have a separate article about each station that produces at least one unique local program independently of the network schedule. But Moose FM isn't a "network" in the same sense, because the Moose FM stations don't share any significant amount of notable programming — it's just a brand name, not a station or a network in its own right, and each Moose FM station has its own staff playing its own musical selections separately from any other Moose FM station. There just isn't enough coverage about Moose FM as a thing to write a standalone "Moose FM" article with, which is why the overarching entity that has an article is Vista Radio (the company that owns the stations) rather than "Moose FM". Bearcat (talk) 21:27, 25 August 2023 (UTC)