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"Grade B"

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If the article is going to state that several CBS affiliates in adjoining areas covered part of the Wilmington market with a Grade B signal, shouldn't there be a definition of Grade B, or a link to one? JTRH (talk) 20:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

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Passed. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 08:09, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs) 04:27, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Hey, I will be reviewing this! This is a very well researched and well-sourced article - Well done! I am hoping to help you get it to GA status like many of your other television station articles :) Here are my comments after going through the article - most of these are about changing/expanding/clarifying some things that I struggled to understand and thus other readers may also need some clarify about:

Lead:

"named for its lawyer in Washington, D.C" - Can you please clarify this? I did not understand

  • Rather plainly, the lawyer put his name on the station as a sort of "working title". Turns out it was the station's call sign for the first 10 years it was on the air. (Finding his name is possible if you trace the paper trail but also OR as it's not published)

WJKA: CBS for Wilmington:

1.) Please link "call letters" (I am unsure if it is Call signs or Broadcast call signs, I assume the latter)

  • Done.

2.) "In addition, had signed a network affiliation agreement with CBS and agreed to share the tower of ABC affiliate WWAY near Bolivia, North Carolina." - This needs rewording - who/what signed it and agreed?

  • Oops. Got lost in the reshuffle.

3.) "After delays attributable to construction and Hurricane Diana" - Can this be expanded upon perhaps?

  • The source doesn't permit it.

4.) "WJKA signed on September 24, 1984" - Can you clarify what they signed?

5.) "would provide a draw for viewers" - Can you clarify/explain what "provide a draw" means?

  • Reworded.

6.) "WJKA management was able to move ahead with a project that had been slated since 1987" - Can you make it clear that the project is the second attempt at local newscasts?

  • Done.

7.) Please link "Wilmington Morning Star"

  • Done.

8.) I found the bit about shares/viewing figures quite difficult to understand - per WP:READERSFIRST, could you perhaps change the wordings to make it more understandable for readers who do not have prior knowledge of the topic?

  • This is a toughie to reword but contains some information that is hard to present in other ways:
    • The station had better news viewership in the immediate Wilmington area and not the larger area where ratings were measured.
    • The station was far, far behind WECT and WWAY.

WSFX-TV: Fox for Wilmington:

1.) Can you please clarify what "over-the-air" means?

  • I see you're from the UK. You'd probably use the word "terrestrial" here instead.

2.) "channel 26 began sharing news, engineering, and promotion staff, and its separate sales unit began working out of WECT's" - Can you please explain/clarify what this means?

  • U.S. broadcasting laws limit the ownership of two television licenses in the same area. However, it is often seen in markets of this size that a smaller owner contracts with the owner of another station for support. This results in something akin to common ownership though with some important differences. (Notably, the two licensees sometimes have to sell their own advertising.)

3.) Can you please explain what "early digital switchover" means, in addition to the change to "digital television"? I am unsure and believe other readers may be confused too.

4.) " (which later transferred in the same year its shares to American Spirit Media, which he owned)" - I think this needs to be reworded - should it be "who later transferred his shares"?

  • Reworded to reduce density.

5.) "the assumption of $50 million in debt" - Can you clarify/expand on this? Why was the station in debt?

  • Unclear from source. Possibly other acquisitions.

6.) What is "a coaches show"?

  • A TV program featuring the head coach of a sports program at a university. Historically, very popular schools with large followings had such programs distributed in a wide area. We lack an article on this concept.

Once these have been changed and/or addressed, I will do a source check and then hopefully pass the article! :) Please take your time and let me know if you need any assistance at all! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:27, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source checked sources #8, #16, #21 and #40 - I found that a couple words etc were not in the source, so I changed them slightly in the prose. But I did not find any major issues, so I will pass this. Well done! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:59, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

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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 SL93 talk 17:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 759 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC).[reply]

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