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I believe that WFAN (AM) should be moved to WFAN, because of common names; Due to Wikipedia's policy, the most well-known and commonly used name for the station is the title of that article, and there is no other page of thing that the letters W-F-A-N can associate with. Plus WNBC-TV has been moved to WNBC, as its the only station (in TV or radio) to currently use those call letters; WABC is disambiguation page cause its got two stations currently using those call letters: WABC-TV and WABC (AM).--Roadrunner3000 18:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

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Support. RR3K is right. Aaron 17:47, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Support. Absent any alternate meaning for WFAN (or official inclusion of suffix) "(AM)" is clearly redundant. Stickguy 18:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Moved. —Nightstallion (?) 08:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

1 20-20 Sports
2 Callers Section
3 Steve Somers Fans
4 Old Call Letters

[edit] 20-20 Sports

“WFAN was also the first station in the country to roll out sports updates every 20 minutes.”

I know this is not true, but I am still looking for verification. Until I find it, I will not alter the article, though. But I remember listening to WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the early to mid-1970s, and they had “20-20 Sports” updates.

They originally did sports updates every 15 minutes but it doing so really kept the talk hosts from getting into detailed converstation.

It would be nice to see someone add a paragraph about "Short Al" - in the callers section. Short Al is a WFAN legend and calls in every night.

[edit] Callers Section

I fail to see the salience of having a Callers Section with John from Sandy Hook, Doris from Rego Park, etc. It's a fun and amusing thing to read, but is this stuff really important? I definitely think not. It really has little to do with WFAN. I've left it in, because I don't want to make such a significant change to this article unless others agreed. Asc85 14:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

If the criteria of "is this stuff really important" were globally applied, 2/3 of Wikipedia would suddently disappear :-) That said, some radio shows/stations do have a prominent relationship with their regular callers; Bob Grant (radio) also includes caller material, although not to the same length. Wasted Time R 16:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

As callers are an important ingredient for this station, and some of the callers listed here have become part of the WFAN "family" as it were, I think having this section should be retained Odysseybookshop 18:54, 18 June 2006 (UTC).

I agree- they are very important. It's also fun to listen to the clips of their calls. Except, they aren't up anymore. :-( Someone should put those up again, they were hillarious.

Yes what happened to Jerome's clip????? please put this back on. why was it taken down?

[edit] Steve Somers Fans

It's obvious to me that there are a few Steve Somers fans who are skewing this article, spending far too much time on Somers, his callers, and VASTLY overstating his impact and popularity on the station. The guy knows precious little about sports, isn't funny, and this is why he was fired from his mid-day gig with Salzburg, and why he's barely on the air when most people are listening to the radio. Asc85 13:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The Jerome audio clips aren't working. I have tried from a number of different computers, and there is definitely something wrong with the file. Is it possible for someone to fix that? THANKS SO MUCH!