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Note: I, the creator of this Wikipedia article have recently ridded it considerabley of non-neutral content. Please offer me some more hints so if any more subjective content exists I can delete it...so this article can stay on Wikipedia. This article has shrunk in length, due to the deletions I made of emotionally-driven content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.183.113 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 25 May 2007

I, the editor, have taken steps to make this article more objective and less subjective. It is my goal to not appear as hostile. On that note, I am tolerant of criticism. I have deleted the phone numbers and e-mail addresses, as an individual User:Student7 suggested on my WLTN-FM page. I visit these pages frequently so please, if you would like to see improvements just leave me a message on this discussion page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.183.113 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 25 May 2007

Also note that I have just learned of this "Discussion" Page feature as of today. Before today, I had no working knowledge whatsoever as to how the "Discussion" Page works or how to use it. Everyday is its own new learning experience, I guess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.183.113 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 25 May 2007

I have converted the inline URLs to reference footnotes in the WP:FOOT style, using {{cite web}}. DES ^(talk) 13:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

24.218.183.113 02:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)June 4, 2007 - Please feel free to add to this page, anybody else. Yes, I am the one who wrote this article, but that doesn't mean it's all mine! Any Wikipedians from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont or Coos or Grafton Counties of New Hampshire who know a little history please feel free to add to this page. This article is much shorter than it was about a month ago, because I omitted excess advertisement-style sentences and sections.[reply]

Where do you get 25kw for the power/ERP? The FCC database says 1.5 kw Mr mark taylor 03:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

24.218.183.113 00:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)28 June, 2007 Oh, I see your point. Well, just call this number and ask what the power is for WXXS-FM: (603)788-3636. I swear Barry P. Lunderville or fellow family members will respond with "25 thousand Watts". I believe that is also advertised in one of their jingles but I obviously couldn't prove that the jingle exists. I just recall it.[reply]
- After discussing it [[1]] and getting a few replies, I believe the consensus is to use what the FCC database says, for example: WLTW, WRED and KSOF. Mr mark taylor 11:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

24.218.183.113 16:12, 4 August 2007 (UTC) 4 August 2007 ERP Power Reading Updated, Finally! I also updated the format listing, just to stay consistent with my primary source of Formatting and Power Information for this article. I saw in articles for stations such as WCTB that the Eclectic Music Mix is an existing slant of music primarily for stations that are either stunting and/or between formats or broadcasting to very small markets or rural areas where more music must be made available on less radio stations. I don't have any sources to support this claim so I did no more than simply list the format in the info box. I thought it was the right thing to do to stay consistent with my sources as they update their information, just to keep Wikipedia up-to-date.[reply]

Format

What format is this station? After personally listening to it, it seems as if it's a top 40 station, but it could be just the time I was listening to it. Theres no website or contact info for the station so theres no real way to cite anything other than personal listening to it. Mr mark taylor 16:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

76.118.247.91 02:42, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- Yes Mr mark taylor, the Mainstream Top 40 you were hearing definitely had a lot to do with the time you were tuning in. For example, this station divides its music genres into segments. I could not find anything to cite so I did not include this information in the actual article. Particularly between the hours of 3PM and 9PM on weekdays, WXXS plows through lots of Top 40 to give it some airplay to satisfy the younger teenage and young adult listeners but overnight hours, morning hours, and mid-day hours contain lots of songs you won't hear anywhere else. I did not include that statement because it sounds too much like an advertisement. But, for example, I hear songs from Top 40 charts of years past that I never heard on any other radio station. For example, WXXS still plays All The Things She Said (by t.A.T.u.), Discovery Channel (by Eifel 65 and the Bloodhound Gang), Crazy (by K-Ci & Jojo), Look At Us Now (by Sarina Paris), Boys of Summer (by DJ Sammy), and What It Feels Like For A Girl [Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit] (by Madonna). Those and many more songs are the types of tracks you just won't find on stations such as WXKS, WKSS, or KIIS. Again, because I couldn't cite this statement, I left it out of the article. This article is not an advertisement.

This is the person who originally posted the article. To answer the format question of Mr mark taylor, YES, Mainstream Top 40 is featured in a certain percentage of their playlists and at certain hours of the day...at different times each day and for different increments of time everyday but when I personally compared it to other Top 40 radio stations I noticed LOTS of hard-to-find Pop, Rock, and Dance songs. I will not name them but the variety is definitely comparable. I visited the household studios a couple times and the family who owns and operates it told me WXXS "doesn't have any specific format" but they also made it very clear that WXXS is "not an Adult Hits radio station". Correct, nothing exists that can be physically cited but station owner told me it is some hybrid between Hot Adult Contemporary, Rock, and Dance. My entirely non-cited guess would be that the lack of radio stations in the area that WXXS serves has some influence on its loosely-defined formatting. The area is very rural and does not have many radio stations that serve it directly. You know, I have actual visual, auditory, and written evidence of the formatting of WXXS FM but the station owner specifically informed me that he did not give me permission to distribute it in any physical or electronic way.

You know, Mr mark taylor, just because I wrote this article doesn't mean it's all mine. You can go in there and make edits wherever you feel appropriate. After all, that's what Wikipedia should be all about. People helping one another so that the most accurate articles can be created.

All and all, perhaps a format title could be Diverse Hot AC / Top 40 Variety Pop/Rock / Dance / Teen Pop. More specifically, WXXS Kiss 102.3 is a Hot Adult Contemporary radio station that places heavy emphasis on the Top 40 songs of the 1990'S AND 2000'S that no longer get sufficient airplay. WXXS Kiss 102.3 is sort of like a version of the Lost 45s for the Hot Adult Contemporary. This is an approach that has been attempted by very few radio stations because it probably requires a lot more hard work to find all those songs and pre-load them than it does to follow the standard Hot Adult Contemporary playlists. The word diverse was used to describe the extensive variety of Mix 96.7 in the WLTN-FM article. See if you can re-write the article to make it look more encyclopedic.

I don't think having 3 unidentified streaming links that "sound like" this station is appropriate content. That's very subjective, and not relevent to the topic of the article, which is this radio station and might have copyright implications if they are bypassing station's advertising.StreamingRadioGuide 00:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Massive Updates

I have updated the page with an updated infobox and correct information. Alot of the previous information was deleted as it was just small minor stuff draw out to make more sentences. Wattage in the article was also corrected as it incorrectly stated the station was operating at 25,000 watts (it is only at 1,500 watts per FCC site) and that it was the 2nd most powerful station in NH (not even close). Information about it's competition and the variations of format it plays weren't necessary either. Contemporary Hit Radio is Pop/Hip Hop/Rock swirled in one. We don't need each and every variation drawn out. Finally, the links to webstreams of other stations were removed because, well, we don't do that on other station's pages and like StreamingRadioGuide said above, it could have copyright implications. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 04:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]