Talk:List of Oakland Athletics broadcasters

Changes in crew[edit]

My apologies for an editing flub on 7/12/06. I replaced the text I accidently deleted while adding in a few links to new information about Roy Steele.

Additionally - due to the recent changes in the broadcast crew of the Oakland A's, I recommend that this page be re-organized, as information regarding Bill King is intermixed with information about the current broadcasting team. I recommend the following sections: Current Broadcast Crew: (Korach, Cotroneo, Fosse, Roye, Kuiper, Buan, etc...) Bill King: He deserves a his own section, I suppose, without too much biographical information as he has his own page within Wikipedia. Previous Broadcasters: By Saam, etc. (This is already well organized). Perhaps information about Steve Bitker can be moved here as he has not, to my knowledge, returned to the A's in 2006.

any suggestions? 67.188.83.178 08:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I have a suggestion: why is Roy Steele being included as a "broadcaster"? He's not a broadcaster. He's a public address announcer in the stadium.

I also take exception with this entire section:

As noted above, the late Bill King announced the A's games on radio from 1981 to 2005. He partnered on A's broadcasts for 15 years with Lon Simmons, creating an unmatched 1-2 punch of Hall of Fame broadcasters, with Ken Korach replacing Simmons for the 1996 season.

Exactly how did "the late Bill King" announce the A's from 1981 to 2005? He was alive then, not dead. Also, how were King and Simmons "unmatched" as "hall of fame broadcasters" when only Simmons is in the Hall of Fame? BayRadioDJ (talk) 01:05, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Saam.jpg[edit]

Image:Saam.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]