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A fact from KAVU-TV appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 05:04, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that the founder of Texas television station KAVU-TV had previously run a school from the same building that would house the station's studios?~~ Source: various (end of first history subsection)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Federal Government of Nigeria

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Epicgenius (talk) 23:37, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this, but it's not very interesting as a hook. What do you think about something like:
ALT1: ~~... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, was not aware that their signal was being transmitted to Corpus Christi until station employees who lived there said they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?~~ Yoninah (talk) 23:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: It's not my favorite—the incident is so trivial. Can I reword slightly for accuracy? Also throwing an ALT2 in the ring: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:14, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1a: ... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know ~~that~~ their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?

ALT2: ~~... that Victoria, Texas, was left with one commercial TV station when a bank foreclosed on KAVU-TV and KVCT, combined their operations, then sold the former to Withers Broadcasting?~~ [1]

@Sammi Brie: it may not be your favorite, but it's going to attract a wider readership than technical details about ownership. Are you okay with going with ALT1a? Yoninah (talk) 21:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Yeah. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Since I suggested the hook angle, we need another reviewer to approve this. Pinging original reviewer Epicgenius. Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1a looks fine to me. Epicgenius (talk) 22:16, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]