Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CKER-TV


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Nakon 05:06, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

CKER-TV

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Wikipedia's notability rules for media do not confer an automatic presumption of notability on unlicensed community television stations. Neither CRTC licensing records nor the Canadian Communications Foundation contain any documented evidence of this station's existence, and while its own website certainly demonstrates that it exists, that's a primary source which cannot confer notability in the absence of reliable source coverage. As written, further, the article fails to clarify whether this is a low-power broadcast station, a cable channel or a closed-circuit broadcaster — so it simply does not get an automatic "because it exists" notability freebie in the absence of any reliable sourcing about it. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 01:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 06:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Merge to List of defunct Canadian television stations. Source searches do not provide adequate coverage to support a standalone article. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 06:50, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 03:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:24, 28 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete – According to this article ("CKER closing up shop") it was a public access cable station carried on 2 cable channels. It existed for one and a half years and served the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. It did have some original programming. But according to WP:BROADCAST, the service area was probably too small – public access cable stations are "not presumed notable unless they serve a major city or a large regional area", like statewide or NYC. If we were going to merge into List of defunct Canadian television stations, I think we would have to keep it, because that page is a lists of links. It would only take a few minutes to rewrite the article for that purpose, but I think it was probably never notable enough for a separate article. – Margin1522 (talk) 08:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.