Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

GA review

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Nominator:Sammi Brie (talk ·contribs)16:58, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer:It is a wonderful world (talk·contribs)14:44, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Shall review :)IAWW (talk)14:44, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Take a look,It is a wonderful world.Sammi Brie (she/her · t ·c)03:29, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks @Sammi Brie, replies are belowIAWW (talk)09:30, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KATV intended to use KBTM-TV to broadcast its ABC and other programming as well as local news and other programming: "ABC + other" = all programming, which is obviously meaningless. Do you mean "mainly ABC programming"?

• Reworded

Network affiliation provided resources that KAIT had instead been obtaining without permission. In 1966, the FCC fined Hernreich $1,000 for rebroadcasting programs from other stations over KAIT without their permission, as well as other violations: Could you join these sentence together to make it clearer they are connected, and ideally make it a bit more concise?

• Reworded. Let me know what you think.

Looks good :)

ABC rescinded the compensation increases: All the compensation increases Sullivan action, including for KAIT?

KAIT shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, and relocated its digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF: Double relocated, and I suggest linking "VHF" and "UHF" later on

• Fixed. Good catch; this is not an article where they're otherwise relevant.

In January 2003, KAIT began broadcasting a digital signal.[31] KAIT shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, and relocated its digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 9 to channel 8 for post-transition operations: As part of the federal mandate and wireless spectrum auction?

• The former, but not the latter (KAIT wasn't repacked).

KAIT has historically served a larger coverage area than its media market. This is because there are counties where KAIT was the most-viewed station but the stations in Little Rock or Memphis, Tennessee, collectively had higher share, causing them to be drawn into that market.[31] Within that market, however, KAIT has traditionally dominated the Memphis stations as the only local news source: I'm lost with this. I don't see how the viewership numbers have anything to do with whether KAIT serves different areas. I feel like there are some terms have have some subject-specific meanings I'm unaware of.

• Start atMedia market. In the United States, TV markets are defined by a ratings company. The metric to define them is which "set" of stations is watched the most in total. Imagine a county in which 30% of the viewing went to KAIT, 20% to Memphis station 1, 12% to Memphis station 2, and 5% to Memphis station 3. The three Memphis stations (37%) are more-viewed than KAIT. That county would be drawn into the Memphis market by the ratings agency, even though KAIT is the most-watched station therein. This is also the case for WBKO historically for the exact same reason (but there are more references available about this phenomenon affecting the availability of WBKO than there are about KAIT).

Thank you for explaining. I think I understand but have one question to make sure. If KAIT was split up into two stations, would that mean the KAIT stations would be their own separate market, as they are now a "set"?IAWW (talk)09:29, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@It is a wonderful world The addition of the NBC subchannel could have affected this, but possibly too late. For reasons that are hard to define at first blush (e.g.syndex), DMA lines got a lot harder than they used to be. The short answer is this. Jonesboro was not a defined market by Arbitron, one of the two ratings companies at the time, until 1970, and Nielsen did not do it until some time after. But many markets were "short markets", that is they had fewer stations than major networks. Short markets have almost all disappeared because of subchannels (like KAIT with NBC) and low-power stations (KJNB-LD). Jonesboro has been a separate market since 1970 at least by Arbitron's reckoning, but as a one-station market it was always going to be hard pulling outlying counties into it.Sammi Brie (she/her · t ·c)06:49, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie Thanks again for explaining. I'm happy with your changes and think this is ready for GA, so I'm passing now.IAWW (talk)19:08, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The first bullet point contains a timescale Bumpass was active ("1970s"), but the second bullet point doesn't.

• Alas, it's not in the source when exactly he worked there. Not much you can do when that happens.

Fair enough

[41] is down

As always its mostly local news and official documents. I see no issues.

[3]:Y

[4]:Y

[15]:Y

[16]: I think "reliant on movies for most of its programming" is not really supported by the source.

• Trimmed back to merely say movies were part of the lineup.

[25]: I don't think it supports "After KAIT-TV's license was renewed"

• It's a simple chronology item. The announcement was made at the start of 1980. The renewal occurred in 1979.

Yep, fair, not really sure what I was thinking.

[32]: "KAIT shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009" is unsupported. I'm not really familiar with the technical terminology so I may have missed something, but the rest seems to be supported.

• NewsBank has a transcript (which cuts off at 6:52am for some reason) of the morning newscast in which they shut off their signal at 7am (and it's mentioned multiple times). I'm adding this citation, but it's offline.

Nice find!

Earwig finds nothing and I found nothing on the spot check.

It covers the station's entire lifespan so I'm passing on broadness, but it does seem to be rather short for such a big station.

• KAIT? Big? Hardly! This is actually asmall market, the 182nd of 210 in the nation (and, if this GA is approved, en route to be the 202nd with a DYK). It also lacks some of the flashy history thatWBKO (a highly comparable station by market size and historical circumstance — these stations made their markets exist!) has.

Fair enough! I was looking at market share and didn't know markets could be really really small.

Did you know nomination

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 asthis nomination's talk page,the article's talk page orWikipedia 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 byDclemens1971 talk 02:25, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that before he was the voice ofSquidward,Rodger Bumpass was an announcer, film processor, and cameraman atan Arkansas TV station in the 1970s?Source:https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/rodger-bumpass-4473/
  • Reviewed:Template:Did you know nominations/Os Trombadinhas

Sammi Brie (she/her · t ·c)19:40, 21 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

• Article recently promoted to GA and looks to be in good shape. Article clears Earwig. Hook is interesting and sourced. My one concerns is that it would seem to violateMOS:SEAOFBLUE, with two non-boldlinks text to each other. Can you think of some other way to phrase the hook? Perhaps:

  ALT0a ... that before he was the voice ofSquidward, in the 1970sRodger Bumpass was an announcer, film processor, and cameraman atan Arkansas TV station?

~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs}04:01, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is compliant with that policy as "Squidward" and "Rodger Bumpass" are clearly different things. That said, might I suggest the April Fool's hookALT1: ... that some viewers in Arkansas have been able to watchKait since 1963?--Launchballer17:05, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Darth Stabro andLaunchballer: I'm fine with ALT0a (I didn't think a comma between the two terms would violate SEAOFBLUE, honestly) and ALT1 if the call sign is capitalized, but I also don't want this to sit until April Fool's Day. (If it were a market I had already covered, I might be singing a different tune.)Sammi Brie (she/her · t ·c)17:25, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie andLaunchballer: I remove my objection. Good to go! ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs}17:28, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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