Talk:KASN

Article name
I have moved this article back to KASN from KASN-TV. Consensus on both WP:NC and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations is that the article name should reflect the actual call letters of the TV station. As can be seen here: the call letters for this station are in fact KASN. Any concerns regarding this topic would be best addressed here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations. &mdash;A 08:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Warning!
At least two vandals (one with an IP address only, the other a registered user) have attempted to insert FALSE claims that KASN has been or is being sold to CBS Corporation. There is *NO* substantiation for these claims on either the Clear Channel or CBS Corporation websites, in FCC records for KASN, or on the websites of KASN or its sister station KLRT-TV whose news department would be likely report on such a sale. Any further attempts at vandalism will be reported to administrators. --RBBrittain 23:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Three Times Over

 * It says "the Fox affiliation changed hands three times between the two stations before settling on its current Little Rock station". What's this mean, and is it true?? WizardDuck 04:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Cartoonito is on channel 38 right now!

 * I watched KASN just after 8:00 am it becoming arkansas' first preschool station, this is just so soft and just viewing, it's great!

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Requested move 6 March 2024

 * 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. – robertsky (talk) 06:00, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

– Returning to RM an undiscussed move made by User:Mseingth2133444. Rationale as proposed is to reduce ambiguity between call sign and ICAO airport code (in the cases above, Talladega Municipal Airport, Portland International Airport). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Television stations task force for project-level discussion. Note: Though I am bringing this to RM to properly finish a bold-revert-discuss cycle, I am opposed; see below. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:31, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * KASN → KASN (TV)
 * KPDX → KPDX (TV)
 * Oppose When selecting a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for a page title, we first must consider that a topic may have a secondary name and not be the primary topic for that specific name, and we also must consider that common-name topics (though not call sign–titled broadcast pages) should exhaust all means of natural disambiguation before resorting to awkwardness like this. WP:NCBC, the naming conventions for the instant TV stations, prescribes these existing titles as the correct titles. We have hundreds of cases where airport codes are handled in hatnotes, as these articles do, and I doubt for a variety of reasons (these being ICAO codes instead of the more commonly used three-letter IATA designations and, in most cases, the obscurity of the airport: e.g. KASN has 777 views in 30 days, Talladega Municipal Airport has 213) that either airport, or frankly any airport code, has primary topic priority over a broadcast station for which this is the only correct title. If I'm looking for Talladega's airport, either I'll type the name of the airport or I'll type the ICAO code and still be one click away from my target page while respecting that it's not the primary topic. If I'm looking in the press or other reliable sources, a mention of KPDX is far more likely to be about the TV station than the airport. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 05:31, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This comment is to ping editors involved in the previous discussion: . Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 05:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Support: keeping KPDX at its current state is like redirecting KSEA to an obscure radio station. Why not move KPDX under KPTV (FOX12) as it's branded as FOX12 Plus? Mseingth2133444  ( talk / contribs ) 15:20, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * No, it has to be under the FCC callsign. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 15:48, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Let me respond a little differently, first taking your comments. Call sign–titled pages are unique in NCBC in that, in almost every case, the primary holder of the call sign is considered the primary topic. KSEA is not a good example because not only was the designation given to an airport, the call sign used by other stations in Seattle prior to winding up in Salinas. The disambiguation is there to resolve that as much as it is to provide the airport link, and with a hatnote or a dabpage, the airport is the same distance away for a reader: one click.  It would be utterly infeasible to mash KPTV and KPDX, with their separate histories (they were competitors for 18 years), into one article.  Since 1987, The Oregonian has put "KPDX" in an article about 1,021 times. Almost all of these are references to the TV station. There are only seven results in all that time that included KPDX and the word "airport", in all of which "KPDX" refers to the TV station. That's because references to the airport do use PDX, as early as the start of the period covered. For example, at PDX, unlike O'Hare... goes a 1987 travel feature. Searching NewsBank for "Talladega KASN" exclusively turns up TV schedules and sports-related items from the Little Rock TV market. This argument does not carry any weight. These ICAO airport codes are not common names for the airports represented. But the matching call signs are common and official names for the TV stations represented.  Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 17:50, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

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.
 * Oppose Airports are easily handled as hatnotes in the station articles, and neither airport is known as a WP:COMMONNAME under their airport codes with the K-prefix (Talladega especially; its major use is mainly for NASCAR teams and hospitality and not civilian flights, so it's not really in much of a local vernacular outside 'the airport' or 'airport by the track').  Nate  • ( chatter ) 19:33, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose Restating my comments at the above-noted project-level discussion to keep it all in one place. For the general public (our audience here), the ICAO code is at best a tertiary identifier for the airport, after its name and the IATA code, whereas the call sign is the primary identifier for the broadcast facility (whether TV or radio). Anyone looking for KPDX or KASN is far more likely to be looking for the TV station than the airport. If the requested moves above were intended to place a disambiguation page at the base name, I could potentially see the logic and we have plenty of disambiguation pages like that, although a hatnote on the TV station covers it just fine where there are only two articles being disambiguated. But it would absolutely not be logical to make these moves in order to redirect the base names to the airport, as was done in the bold phase of this bold-revert-discuss. Mlaffs (talk) 23:16, 6 March 2024 (UTC)