Template:Did you know nominations/WNWC (AM)
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:18, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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WNWC (AM)
- ... that the bank that owned radio stations WMAD AM and FM near Madison, Wisconsin, hired three new employees in the ten days before shutting them down? Source: p44
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ōyama Sutematsu
- Comment: 5x expand from how the article was as I found it. Previously to that, some program listings had been lopped off the article, so DYKcheck will have trouble here.
5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC).
Article long enough, and assuming good faith for the 5x explanation. The hook is cited inline, but due to technical issues I couldn't load the page that the source is in at the time of this review; I might check again later. No close paraphrasing was found and a QPQ has been one. The hook is a bit negative; perhaps as an alternate suggestion, a hook about it being owned by a bank might also work? I'm not sure if banks owning radio stations in the US is common but it's something that caught my attention. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:58, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Narutolovehinata5: It sometimes happens when a station goes under financially and the bank is one of the main creditors, and that's not a hook by itself. It's not terribly rare—now, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation running a station because the bank itself is seized? That's hook-worthy. I don't think this hook is too negative as the event is quite in the stations' past by now. Raymie (t • c) 16:34, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Fair enough. I was shown a snippet off-wiki of the source so that's verified now. We should be good to go with the hook then. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:59, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
