Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W18BN


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 00:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

W18BN

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Over the air station is not on air, FCC records not up to date. This was my misconception of records. Jmoz2989 (talk) 16:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete In the subject's favor, they are currently licensed per the FCC database link, and have several thousand people in their reception contour, also per the FCC database. A Google search shows that they transmit a couple of Christian televangelist programs which originate elsewhere, such as Richard Roberts (evangelist) and "Sid Roth's It's Supernatural!TM" per . The Daystar Television Network has a number of low powered UHF repeaters carrying its televangelist programming. I found nothing at Google News or elsewhere to indicate they are more than a repeater. If they originate no local programming, then they do not satisfy the usually demanded factor of being licensed and originated a portion of their programming. This requirement is to eliminate mere repeater sites from having articles. This transmitter thus appears to have no reliable and independent sources with significant coverage, thus failing WP:N. Edison (talk) 18:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Usually as a member of WP:TVS I would argue for a Keep, but there is a such thing as a station which is so irrelevant that there is no coverage to speak of in any sources at all, no pay TV carriage, a signal area which only rivals that of a wi-fi cantenna setup, and the only viewer of a station might be an engineer occasionally to make sure their automated setup with a DVD player/recorder and cheap Dish Network subscription which gets the religious and free tiers is still running (like WTAS-LP in Waukesha, Wisconsin, an article I will not start because there are no sources, no viewers, and it is treated as a hobby by its owners). Thus seems to be the case with W18BN, which seems to only exists seemingly because of a distant owner in New York City putting it on the air in hopes it may one day get a Class A license to boost to serve Scranton (as the FCC license info suggests). It has no WLH outside links to any other Scranton TV articles and templates. It's doubtful even a hundred people in their service area have watched this station, and despite the goal of TVS being to list every licensed station possible, there are cases where a lack of an article about an irrelevant station would cause no harm to speak of.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 21:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2011 (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.