Talk:KSMO-TV

KSMO-TV has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: March 4, 2023. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from KSMO-TV appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KSMO-TV.

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My-KSMO-TV[edit]

What Day Did KSMO Changed Its On-Air Branding To My-KSMO-TV?12.216.121.118 (talk) 00:44, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pending Deal with Meredith and Time inc[edit]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-meredith-time-inc-20171126-story.html

This proposed deal involves Time inc's assets and Meredith's assets coming into one entity. As of November 2017 the Koch Brothers has been named as people involved in the deal. Its a pending deal that affects Meredith owned stations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/business/dealbook/time-inc-meredith-corporation-koch-brothers.html?_r=0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.86.14.44 (talk) 23:00, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

KSMO NEW LOGO[edit]

Can somebody please put KSMO-TV's New logo on this page?

Why is this page protected?[edit]

If a reason isn't obvious it should be stated in the discussion or have the protection removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.53.168.200 (talk) 20:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just logged out and was still allowed to edit this page. It isn't protected. SilverCityChristmasIsland 20:54, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

Passed. Hog Farm _Talk 02:41, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:KSMO-TV/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 19:53, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a. (prose, spelling, and grammar):

b. (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a. (reference section):

b. (citations to reliable sources):

c. (OR):

d. (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a. (major aspects):

b. (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a. (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales):

b. (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/fail:

(Criteria marked are unassessed)

At one point earlier in my life, I lived on the extreme edge of the KC media market, but I don't think I ever watched this channel.

I don't blame you! It seems like it was pretty bad in the 80s—ABRY did quite good at turning this around. I have two more Kansas City-market stations that are ready for GA (as part of a pipeline of more than 70 additional titles).

"That caused Choice Channel of Kansas City to take on a majority investor: Media Central Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, which purchased a 60 percent interest in the station in February 1983" - cited to p. 123 of a PDF, but p. 123 of that PDF is an advertisement for WJIM-TV. p. 102 mentions the partnership, but while our article implies that the wiring for cable and the bad STV market led to addition of Media Central, the source doesn't support that connection

Oops! That's a typo. I must have been trying to convert the citation to something closer and...got 123 in my head instead of 102.

"He in turn raided his former employer: WNOL-TV in New Orleans, another independent built in 1983 and which was facing issues of its own" - unclear what exactly this is suppose to mean
- Fixed with some clarity.
"decided not to purchase the designation KCKC from a station in California" - maybe note that KCKC in CA was a radio station, not a television station
- Fixed.
"a radio station in Salem, Missouri," - major MOS:EGG issue here. With the link to the AM station placed solely on "Salem, Missouri", it looks to the reader like Salem is linked, not the radio station
- Fixed.
"which had been at one point the top UPN affiliate in the country" - recommend attribution for this. The source attributes this to a former station general manager, who is clearly a non-neutral party
- Removed — can't find another source.
"In 1997, the Royals moved to an 80-game package, with 30 cable telecasts on Fox Sports Rocky Mountain" - source just states the cable telecast was Prime Sports; given as many regional networks as Prime had I don't think we can just assume that it was the Rocky Mountain one
- It rebranded between the announcement and the start of the package. An additional reference has been added that should make the logical connection a little clearer.
Anything of note happen between 2013 and the Gray purchase?
- Eh, not really. I'll note that this is where a) most attention around a station turns to their newscasts and b) these secondary stations don't do a lot of interest.

I think that's it from me. Hog Farm _Talk 00:55, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- @Hog Farm: Thank you for the review and catching my embarrassing PDF source typo. I've made changes to resolve every item you mentioned. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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 BorgQueen (talk) 04:27, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when the general manager of a Kansas City TV station tried to gather public feedback, he found people did not even know it existed? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88904868/indecency-charge-is-just-latest-setback/
- ALT1: ... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"? Source: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1995/BC-1995-07-24.pdf p85
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Capex Corporation

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 18:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/KSMO-TV; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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:

I prefer the first hook, but ALT1 is OK too. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:40, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]