Talk:WJJZ (AM)

A fact from WJJZ (AM) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New Jersey radio station WJJZ lost its license over an unauthorized payment of $25,000 to a competing applicant for its frequency?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Vincent60030 (talk) 11:58, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that New Jersey radio station WJJZ lost its license over an unauthorized payment of $25,000 to a competing applicant for its frequency? Source: [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KHive
Comment: Completes 50 states and DC for me in 2020!

Created by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 02:11, 23 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Raymie, congratulations on achieving your 50-state target! Article was created 23 August; article exceeds minimum length; article is cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't find any issues with overly close paraphrasing from a spot check; hook is interesting, however the article only states the $25,000 was claimed to have been paid, I see the source states that the judge later ruled it had been paid so perhaps this could be mentioned in the article? Other alternative hooks might be about the first ever use of a lie-detector test in an FCC proceeding or that it went off air for 30 minutes after a mouse was electrocuted? QPQ has been done. I had a couple of queries about the article text:

"In an initial decision, FCC hearing examiner selected the Burlington County application in May 1962.[2] Kyle found that the allocation of the station to Mount Holly" Is Kyle the examiner? He is not mentioned anywhere else.
I found some of the "First license" section a bit confusing as "Burlington County" is used to refer to the county and the Burlington County Broadcasting Company - for example "On December 14, 1963, Burlington County gained its first radio station when WJJZ began broadcasting as a 5,000-watt, daytime-only outlet". Could the company be referred to as "Burlington County Broadcasting" or BCBC to avoid this?
"later news anchor in Philadelphia and New Jersey state senator", nothing too controversial but this should probably be cited.

Otherwise looking good - Dumelow (talk) 04:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me about it, Dumelow, the applicants all had similar names! Lemme respond:

That should have read "FCC hearing examiner Jay A. Kyle", and it now does.
I have a prior "mouse in the transmitter" DYK, from WKBZ (1520 AM) last year, so I can't go that way. I've added more cites to back up the material and reworded a bit.
Changed mentions of "Burlington County" to refer to the company to "Burlington County Broadcasting".
Also added some other material I didn't find the first time around.

Raymie (t • c) 05:25, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, those pesky mice! All good for me - Dumelow (talk) 06:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]