Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New 94.3 FM Kentville, Nova Scotia


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The result was delete. Clear consensus for deletion. North America1000 19:56, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

New 94.3 FM Kentville, Nova Scotia

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A yet-to-launch radio station which does not even have a proposed callsign and launch date yet. Per WP:NRADIO, such stations generally are not considered notable yet. While I did find a few local hits about the proposed station, they do not appear to be enough to establish notability per WP:GNG. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:16, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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Delete, but super open to reevaluating once they launch and have a chance to show notability. Knox490 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:57, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete- Although the station is going to be launched by a reputable broadcaster, Newcap Radio, IMO it is not notable yet. Patience. Regards,    Aloha27   talk  02:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete No calls, no license, no article. Also, Newcap was told a year ago by the CRTC that the market can't support this new station and I doubt that's changed, so it's not coming in the near future anyways.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 03:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete: The station never went to air — because, as previously noted, the CRTC rejected the application because it doesn't think the market can support a new station. (Indeed, it appears the CRTC will not seriously consider any future applications for new stations in Kentville before 2018.) There is, of course, no presumed notability for unlaunched stations (and when a station does launch, we do need sources to verify operation — but that's not happening for this station, since it wasn't even approved); it seems unlikely that this and other unlaunched stations can ever meet the general notability guideline, even with any local coverage the station managed to receive when it was applied for. -- WC  Quidditch  &#9742;   &#9998;  10:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't know if this was a good faith error by a user who saw the application but missed the denial or a deliberate attempt to hoaxify an application the creator already knew was failed, but the above comments are indeed correct: Newcap did submit an application to launch the station described here, but part of the CRTC's licensing process is to do an economic evaluation of whether the market can support a new station before it even gives the application a hearing — and as correctly noted above, they did reject this application on the grounds that Kentville was not able to support a new station at this time. While certainly it's possible that Newcap may try again in the future, (a) that won't be for at least another year, (b) Kentville isn't really growing fast enough that the CRTC findings in the market capacity phase of the process would be likely to be different in 2018 than then were in 2016, and (c) even if they do decide to proceed with hearings next time, a radio station doesn't get an article on here until it's actually on the air — merely having an application in the approval pipeline, or even approved but not yet launched, is not in and of itself enough. (Also, just for the record, I've listed the creator for an SPI check because this puts me just a little bit too much in mind of another editor with a problematic edit history pertaining to radio stations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.) Bearcat (talk) 15:37, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


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