Talk:KFYI

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[edit] Arizona time?

The lineup section gives the entire list of local and syndicated programs--in Arizona time. What is Arizona time? There is no Wikipedia entry for this. Why not just list it as MST ( =! MDT)?

[edit] Answer

A simple question with a complicated answer - Arizona is the one remaining state in the Continental United States that does *not* follow Daylight Savings Time. What this means is that during the summer, Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time, which is "California" time. Most radio stations do not want to move their local programming to match the one hour shift of nationally syndicated programming when DST goes into effect(from the perspective of Arizona). The result is that stations generally tape delay syndicated programming for an hour or play the first hour last.

The Wikipedia official policy at Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory specifocally identifies programming schedules for radio stations as content that is not appropriate for wikipedia - this is surely part of the reason.StreamingRadioGuide 14:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation regarding Arizona time. The page used to look like an advertisement for KFYI with all the showtime listings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.146.218.3 (talk) 21:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)