User talk:Dhett/KUCW
KUCW Rewrite
[edit]This is the final draft version of the rewrite of the KUCW article I'd been proposing. Please review it and let me know what you think on this talk page.
There are some things that you may not agree with in this article:
- The new article has channel 16 signing on in April 1998, not November 1997. I cannot verify that channel 16 signed on in November 1997, when its call letters were still KZAR-TV. On the contrary, an ACME Communications filing with the SEC for EOY 1997 indicated that KZAR-TV was not expected to commence on-air operations until 2Q 1998, which would begin April 1. KZAR-TV became KUWB in February 1998, then became KUPX in April 1998 in the intellectual unit swap.
- I was not sure how much intellectual unit to cite in the move of KUWB. As far as I know, the station wasn't yet on the air at the time of the swap, so there was no programming that came over; on the contrary, a source cited in the article states that ACME dumped channel 30's religious and paid programming and replaced it with new programming - not mentioning that the programming had been on channel 16. (I don't believe that it had been.) It seems that the WB programming has always been on channel 30. The staff, calls and proposed network affiliation did seem to come over, for even though channel 30 was airing WB programming, it was not the WB affiliate officially.
- There is no mention of channel 16 having problems being picked up on cable; I cannot find any documentation to verify it.
- While channel 30's problems with Sonic Cable in Logan are documented, they are not cited as a cause of the station swap, as the proposed swap was documented 4 months before Paxson took action against Sonic. Moreover, if the swap were due to must-carry issues, wouldn't KUWB just have inherited the same issues that KOOG-TV/KUPX had in Logan?