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Did you know... that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?

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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 Desertarun (talk) 08:02, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"? Source: Martin, John (November 5, 1998). "At 50, WADK remains Newport's own radio station". Providence Journal. (This source is in NewsBank; available upon request)

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In 1954, he ["Sully" Sullivan] was the owner of a sandwich shop on Aquidneck Avenue and a bar, Sully's Pub, on Williams Street. Station owner Milton Mitler came into the bar one day and asked him what he thought of WADK. "I said, 'I don't like it. They play all that corny music. The great pastime of Rhode Island, you're going to learn, is talking politics.'"

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 16:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Expanded in the right time range, long enough and so on. I've reassessed as C-class post-expansion—no content issues with the article (including a copyvio check). QPQ done. Taking the source quoted above on good faith, the hook is fine, verified in the article, interesting etc. — Bilorv (talk) 16:51, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]