Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KDQT


 * 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. Whether to redirect is an editorial decision.  Sandstein  07:28, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

KDQT

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Doesn't establish notability per WP:GNG, should be merged or deleted. Nathan2055talk - contribs 17:56, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:44, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:44, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak delete Doesn't seem to pass WP:N Relatively minor station. --Artene50 (talk) 03:25, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * weak keep no one seems to have made any effort yet to find sources, but a merge to Redding, California may be in order. I am of the opinion that radio and TV stations that actually transmitted should be entitled to an article.  But that is a bit outside the scope of this. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Network One or to List of Network One affiliates (where this station is already listed). --MelanieN (talk) 22:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - I think redirect is the way to go. --Nathan2055talk - contribs 16:01, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, → B  music  ian  02:51, 6 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, do not redirect FCC call letters from defunct stations can be reassigned. In the future, this call could be assigned to a TV or radio station.Roodog2k (talk) 19:11, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete; this seems to be one of those obscure stations that nobody watched, and while the presumption of notability for broadcast stations works just fine for larger stations, it may not hold much weight for a low-power station with few references that aren't from the FCC. That only indicates paper existence… but the lone reference on the entire page is a search.com page that states right at the bottom, in the fine print, that it is merely a version of our own List of Network One affiliates. It goes without saying that we shouldn't use our mirrors and forks as references. (Oh, and according to the FCC, its call letters were actually K46DQ… and officially it never made it past construction permit stage…) How many people even care that channel 46 in Redding, California was anything other than the current facility on the channel, a KUCO-LP repeater that has nothing to do with "KDQT"/K46DQ? (And I too generally prefer to have articles on actually-extant stations than not, but the sources have to be there first…) -- WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  03:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, no redirect I cannot seem to trace any history of this station at all with my Highbeam account either under KDQT or K46DQ, and going by the history of the replacement WB affiliate KIWB (The CW Plus) before it's redirection in October 2007 to KHSL-TV as subchannel 12.2, even if this station was a WB affiliate it was a short period of time, only as much as a year going by this source (PDF, pg. 14) (up to September 1998 when the WB 100+ cable channels launched), and since it didn't keep the affiliation, ripe with technical errors, low ratings, zero cable reception, and terrible surrounding programming which made a cable channel launch almost compulsory in Redding to get any kind of audience. Generally, being associated with Network One also shamed your station to no cable reception and only curiousity-seeking ratings, and likely K46DQ, if it programmed any local shows, did only paid time stuff. A second source from the same source cited for WB affiliation above said it was gone by May 1999 (pg. 12). So we have likely a five year station which never got off the ground outside of automated programming from Network One and was under perpetual construction permits until the WB going cable made launching an OTA WB affiliate on a small translator which only gets 10% of the market silly. A clear case of a station treated as a hobby by its owner, and never a serious effort to do much more than that, which KUCO jumped on and got the translator for a pittance. Might be worth a short sentence in that article with these sources, but not a redirect.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 05:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Network One affiliates. Redirect can always be changed if the callsign is reassigned, but not redirecting because it might is WP:CRYSTAL. - The Bushranger One ping only 05:42, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
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