Talk:KTOY

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Did you know... that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY, the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?

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Did you know nomination

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 Edge3 (talk) 05:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY, the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it? Source: https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texarkana/story/2020/aug/24/tasd-honors-emmie-jo-gamble-distinguished-alumna/838764/

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5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 04:10, 5 February 2021 (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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - The phrasing of the hook in the article differs: "continued teaching math after starting" is not quite the same as "continued teaching while building out the station"; don't know if "building out" is a technical term that means "after starting" but it isn't obvious that they're exactly synonymous to this person who knows relatively little about radio stations. A minor difference to be sure, but should be resolved. I'm also not thrilled with the unclear antecedent of "it" - starting math? Maybe "... continued working as a math teacher"?

I also think the hook is trying to squeeze in two unrelated hooks: "first Black-owned", and "continued teaching math" - each is interesting, but not really connected; one would still be interesting if she were an Asian math teacher, and the other would still be interesting if she were a Black dentist. That's a matter of taste, of course, so if you fix the phrasing, I can still approve, but ... how about something like "that KTOY was the first Black-owned in the state, and became the first foreign-owned in the country"? Those two seems more obviously connected, as counterpoint, and still interesting. But your call, I can still approve the first one with minor modification.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: : Side question on the foreign ownership - one source still shows a photo of an all-Black crew, and wearing masks, so clearly a recent photo. Is it still a Black-owned radio station, after the Australian purchase; are the Australian owners also Black? Not strictly a DYK requirement, but seems that it would be good to specify one way or another. GRuban (talk) 17:30, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@GRuban: Let me respond to a bunch of these:

Current ownership: No. The current ownership is not Black, though I'd imagine most of the air staff of KTOY is given the format. (KTOY is co-owned with other local stations that would be more likely to have White listeners and air personalities.) Also worth noting that the Radio Center group's 100% foreign acquisition ruling applied to a whole suite of stations the company already owned stakes in, not just KTOY and not even just the Texarkana market (their largest holdings are in Alaska and I have actually DYK'd one of their stations there, KTKN). Here's a photo of Richard and Sharon Burns. So the ownership notes do not really connect to each other.
I did make a change to the article to assist with the hook wording issue on teaching.

Hopefully this helps. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:41, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

--GRuban (talk) 14:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]