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Star 947

Radio station in Trinidad and Tobago

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ19599710 ↗
Source-derived summary

Star 947 (94.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It is a member of Trinidad and Tobago's Radio Network (TTRN) and has been broadcasting since 2010.

News

The radio station provides news, through Newsfeed bulletins throughout the weekday. Along with 96 WEFM and 107.7 FM Music For Life, short news summaries are provided roughly hourly on the half-hour during the daytime hours between 6:30 am and 6:30 pm.

Editorial summary

“Star 947” enters the record as radio station in Trinidad and Tobago. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Star, Radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Star, Radio and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Star 947” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Star, Radio and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19599710. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Star 947”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Star 947 primary sources, Star 947 archive and Star research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Star 947”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Star 947” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.