Talk:ETV Network

Neutrality ?
The popularity subsection should be edited to maintain neutrality. I know the TRP of etv has plunged at some period but it is not necessary to bash a person (in this case suman) for that in this article. -- Favicon (talk) 05:49, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
The article Etv India looks more like a duplicate to this article. Both refer to the same topic and the content also is almost identical. I propose the Etv India article be merged to the ETV Network article as the later has significantly more content. Thanks, krZna (talk) 04:23, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

I AGREE There s no doubt that they are exactly the same topic. They need to be merged.--B. Srinivasa Sasidhar 04:44, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The merger is fine with me.Shyamsunder (talk) 05:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Improvident move
It appears that the move from ETV Network, and associated changes made by editor Devmahatma on 10 October 2015 to this article, were improvident. The ETV Network was bigger than just "Colors", and Devmahatma has removed all references to the network. In fact he has recreated a substanially similar article to one that was redirected from Colors (TV channel) at Articles for deletion/Colors Kannada. This appears to be an attempt to subvert the Afd process, and in the process remove an article that had better references. Compare the ETV Network article as it was on 18 August 2015, with the current article, and compare the current article with Colors (TV channel) of 1 Oct. 2015. --Bejnar (talk) 16:01, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The problem is that there are two networks involved and Devmahatma (who is a sock of Jaswanthvijay) has caused a lot of pain. Colors is a brand owned by Viacom 18 and five channels owned by ETV Network (of their 20 or so) have the license to use that brand. I think I've fixed most of the problem by fixing the redirects to the correct two networks, a problem created by the sock farm moving and copy pasting content here and there.This is the list of the only five Colors channels that are part of the ETV network. I came to this mess courtesy of Devmahatma's posting at WP:AN a few hours ago. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:06, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Colors (Viacom 18) be merged into Colors TV. I think that the content in the Colors (Viacom 18) article can easily be explained in the context of Colors TV, and the Bar article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Foo will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Devmahatma (talk) 03:00, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose, as the ETV Network article has now been restored in this file space, the merger is no longer appropriate. Colors TV (Colors (TV) ) is a subset of Viacom 18, and is appropriately a redirect there, as are Appka Colors (TV channel), Colors (India TV channel), Colors (Viacom 18), Colors Viacom 18 and Colors Viacom18. Colors Bangla, Colors Kannada, and Colors Odia are appropriately redirects here to ETV Network.   --Bejnar (talk) 13:27, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 11 October 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:31, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Colors (Viacom 18) → ETV Network – Undoing a page move that was unexplained and resulted in an article being wiped out. Unable to restore it myself as the author (deliberately?) changed the redirect after doing the move – Midas02 (talk) 00:42, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:22, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Best discuss this. Colors (Viacom 18) is in India. There are/were several TV stations called ETV. There seems to be a complicated history of TV stations here. I extracted a deleted WP:Parallel history from under ETV Network and moved it to ETV Network (California) and re-deleted it, as it had been deleted by AfD Articles for deletion/ETV Network. Page ETV Network (California) says that ETV Network (California) became an eVision (which likeliest is/was in USA), but currently eVision redirects to Eircom in Ireland. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:22, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.