Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Five All Night Live


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The result was   nomination withdrawn due to sourcing improvements. Bearcat (talk) 17:08, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Five All Night Live

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Television program which aired on a single station in a single media market, with no evidence of the national distribution it would take to give a series an automatic WP:NMEDIA pass — and with only a brief mention in a single book for referencing, there hasn't been sufficient evidence provided that the show would get over WP:GNG either. Delete unless the volume of sourcing can be significantly beefed up. Bearcat (talk) 04:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep There is this book by Danny Schechter, which has 5 pages of stories about the program. It was the first late-night entertainment show, so historically significant as far as that goes. There are famous interviews of Frank Zappa and Bob Marley online. The New York Times mentioned it as one reason why SOME SAY THIS IS AMERICA'S BEST TV STATION. Apparently it was known beyond Boston at the time, although there isn't all that much online. This was 1980. – Margin1522 (talk) 08:06, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Our sources don't have to be online; if you can dig out old newspaper coverage as Hirolovesswords did below, that still counts as sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 10:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 10:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep received significant coverage in the Boston Globe (see below) in addition to the above mentioned sources. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 05:54, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sabulis, Thomas (March 15, 1980). "Channel 5 comes alive at night". The Boston Globe.
 * McLean, Robert A. (March 3, 1980). "Live and Lively on Channel 5". The Boston Globe.
 * Siegel, Matt (January 2, 1983). "Matt Siegel: Remembering the early, unpredictable days of 'Five All Night,' Ch. 5's experiment in live TV". The Boston Globe.
 * "'5 All Night' replacing Matt Siegel with Villone". The Boston Globe. December 30, 1980.
 * McLean, Robert A. (December 11, 1982). "Channel 5 cancels 'Five All Night Live'". The Boston Globe.


 * Now that's a lot more like it. The article's been significantly expanded and source-improved over the bare single-sourced stub that existed at the time I submitted this nomination, so consider this withdrawn. Thanks for the save, guys. Bearcat (talk) 17:08, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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