Talk:WITI (TV)

Wake-Up
Used to be about NEWS.Now i tune to 12 or 58 for REAL News.


 * I disagree with the above comment. Seems like Channel 6 has the "real news" that the other stations have, but just has a lot more local content to fill.

Call sign letters
While the call letters appear to stand for Wisconsin Independent Television, Inc, that acronym was not the reason for the assignment of WITI. Nearly every broadcast channel east of the Mississippi were automatically assigned call signs that start with W. The founders of the station who applied for the FCC license were "Independent Television, Inc", and when approved, they were assigned WITI. It is a nice coincidence that the W can also stand in for Wisconsin. Perhaps the article should mention this, rather than leaving the impression that they picked WITI because the station is in Wisconsin. Not a dog 23:37, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

You are correct re: the meaning of their call letters. Ted Perry mistakenly added the "Wisconsin" in their 50th anniversary segment, and at least one other website also uses that erroneous meaning. Nitelinger 01:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The New "FOX 6 MILWAUKEE" Logo
I Wish the Old FOX 6 Logo deserves to be changed into one of the "FOX News Edge Mandate" with the 2 edgier logos of "FOX 6 MILWAUKEE" (General) & "FOX 6 NEWS" (Newscasts) this season. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.236.99.249 (talk) 01:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC).

Fair use rationale for Image:WITI-TV6-large.jpg
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New FOX6 Logo
On September 29th, 2007, FOX 6 changed their logo colors to matck the FOX O&O colors. Also, all of their on air graphics were changed too. Does anyone have a new image of the logo (the FOX is White w/ red background, the Six is white with blue background. That would be a good addition to this page WisconsinCheeze 14:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:MyFoxMilwaukee.gif
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Fair use rationale for Image:Alternate WITI 2003 Logo.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Removed "Wake-Up Slogans"
I removed the WakeUp Slogans area as they weren't really slogans as much as they were lyrics to their image campaign song. -StephenWeinstein (talk) 21:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:


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 * 2) As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
 * 3) WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
 * 4) Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 00:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 6 April 2017

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Uncontested technical move. (non-admin closure) TonyBallioni (talk) 15:59, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

WITI (TV) → WITI-TV – U.S. TV station articles seem to be standardly disambiguated with the "-TV" appended to the station call letters (e.g. KPIX-TV), rather than by parenthetical disambiguation. Not sure why this one uses the latter, but as I said that seems to be non-standard. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 14:47, 6 April 2017 (UTC)


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 * No one was notified of this discussion at all. The station's calls are WITI without the -TV suffix, and I will move for it to return to the former title. Next time, please inform someone of the move discussion outside of the page banner.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 13:12, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the contested move. Please continue to discuss and if appropriate open a fresh RM discussion. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:30, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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