Talk:Channel Zero (company)

Notability
Our notability guidelines set very specific and narrow requirements for "reliable sources" to establish the notability of an article's subject as well as the extent such a source has to cover the subject. To survive as an article on Wikipedia, at least one of our notability guidelines has to be satisfied. Here are the ones relevant to this article:
 * Notability Guideline -- the main guideline
 * Notability (organizations and companies) -- a subsidiary guideline

So far, I haven't seen any references provided that meet anything in either guideline. I did a Google News archive search and came up with 39 hits when searching for "Channel Zero" + network. Many, however, appear to be passing mentions of Channel Zero Inc., recycled press releases or articles covering some different but similarly named channel or programme. All I found of value was:

That coverage, however, is insufficient in extent to establish notability. I did not, however, examine all 39 hits and I encourage this article's partisaans to see if they can find something. Barring that, this article is probably headed for another articles for deletion discussion (AfD).

This article barely survived AfD once before:
 * Articles for deletion/Channel Zero Inc.

The organization's channels have also had varied histories here:
 * AOV Adult Movie Channel -- barely survived the AfD (Articles for deletion) process
 * Articles for deletion/AOV Adult Movie Channel
 * Maleflixxx Television
 * Articles for deletion/Maleflixxx Television
 * Deletion review/Log/2007 November 22
 * Silver Screen Classics
 * Articles for deletion/Silver Screen Classics
 * Deletion review/Log/2007 November 26
 * Movieola -- survived with good consensus
 * Articles for deletion/Movieola
 * XXX Action Clips Channel
 * Articles for deletion/XXX Action Clips Channel

In part these articles survive because of concerns expressed about the way in which multiple articles were bundled together into one AfD: Bundled AfDs are allowed but it was felt it was done inappropriately with this one and the involved articles were restored for individual AfDs following this "bundled" DRV (deletion review discussion):
 * Articles for deletion/Channel Zero Inc. (cited above)
 * Deletion review/Log/2007 November 22
 * Affected articles:
 * Maleflixxx Television
 * AOV Adult Movie Channel
 * Movieola
 * XXX Action Clips Channel

There are also two others that have been deleted:
 * Ouat Media
 * speedily deleted twice as blatant advertising
 * Le Canal Erotique AOV

Might it make more sense to merge all this stuff into one well-sourced article with redirects for each of the merged articles? -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

As for the individual channel articles, the articles that survived the AfD''s stays as is, there's no need in messing with them again, we've already went through this once before and the people have agreed that they should stay.

As for the Channel Zero Inc. article itself, I find nothing wrong with it personally. It's an article about a broadcasting and media company with more then one, actually several assets to its name, which broadcast nationally and a production company that distributes internationally. I think there is something inherently notable about that. Since the last deletion review on this article, it has expanded somewhat, and there is sufficient amount of info within the article to allow it to stay.

I've found a couple more links and references to add to the list which I think can add to the point of its notability:
 * http://www.ottawacitizennews.com/proof/pc/oc/Bits%20and%20Bytes/B3B4439C-F9AD-4DD5-AC8E-B71A372AF9D4.html
 * http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Feb_2/ai_n9489656
 * http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2006/18/c0448.html

musimax. (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Channel Zero's inappropriate use of Wikipedia for promotion
Multiple single purpose accounts have been involved with various Channel Zero related articles:
 * Ouat Media
 * Ribbly
 * 70.52.141.39
 * Matt.kissick
 * Bhboyle
 * 206.223.182.74 (registered to Channel Zero)

If any of these accounts are affiliated with Channel Zero, it against our rules to edit this article:
 * Conflict of Interest Guideline
 * Business FAQ
 * Wikipedia is not a Soapbox for Promotion

If editors associated with this company would like to see changes to these articles, they're encouraged to suggest them here the article's talk pages. They may not edit the articles themselves. Violating these rules will just lead to unnecessary hassles, COI notice tags and extended discussions at the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Public Enemy connection
The fact that Public Enemy had a song called "She Watch Channel Zero?!" years before this station appeared, and they obviously borrowed the name from the song, bears (sourced) mentioning in the article. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 17:32, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What? I would like to see a reliable source that Channel Zero took the name from the song. єmarsee  •  Speak up!  17:47, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Some issues with this page. There are some inaccuracies in the ownership and specialties channels section.
This past summer the CRTC agreed to some changes in ownership and the current Ownership is not reflected in this article.

How do we get this corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.199.45.226 (talk) 18:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

If you follow the link at the bottom that refers to the CRTC's chart of Channel Zero's assets it illustrates the changes that need to be made to ownership. Also Channel Zero no longer has any ownership in the AOV channels. The page should be updated to reflect this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.199.45.226 (talk) 18:06, 17 December 2014 (UTC)