Talk:WCCO (AM)

DX reception

Living in Memphis in the 1960's I used to hear WCCO after sunset. Even obtained a QSL card. Mccainre (talk) 01:29, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

No mention of the strike?

This article is missing any mention of the bitter strike by the announcers & engineers at 'CCO in the late 1970's. But I remember this as a major turning point for the station, and I believe listener numbers would confirm this.

The station tried to replace the well-known announcers with management people, who were just not up to the job. Many long-time 'CCO listeners (like my parents) went elsewhere, either because of the lowered quality announcing, or out of support of the striking announcers. And many of those listeners never came back to 'CCO.

Plus the strike left a bad atmosphere between the workers and management, and within a few years many of the old-time announcers were gone from 'CCO. Many of them ended up at another radio station for a while, which was commonly called 'CCO in exile'.

It seems like this was an important enough event to be mentioned in the article.T-bonham (talk) 06:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

boone and ericson??

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Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

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@Deconstructhis I am thinking about submitting an article about Dean Spratt, from one of these lists. Maybe you could take a look and tell me what you think about my sources, construction, format, etc...? Thanks. Mrainwater1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:10, 27 October 2011 (UTC).

Massive amount of unreferenced content

The On Air Staff section, in its entirety, contains not one reference! It isn't written in prose and looks more like a programming directory violating WP:NOTDIR. Also, the former on air staff section is not sourced. One editor added the list of people who worked at the station back in on justification that they made the station what it was. While that may be, the list is not in prose, nor is it sourced. Unsourced material may be challenged or removed, and I am challenging their inclusion in this article.--ḾỊḼʘɴίcả • Talk • _{I DX for fun!} 18:53, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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