Talk:KOLD-TV

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GA Review

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Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 16:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 15:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

I feel slightly out of my depth reviewing an article by a very experienced contributor, on a subject I know nothing about, but I'll give it a go. It is a wonderful world (talk) 15:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

• @It is a wonderful world: (All items tackled!) I do it all the time. This drive, I've already reviewed pages on 1960s Canadian politics, traditional climbing, a Moroccan soccer stadium, a video game, a wildfire, and an American soldier. Exposure to broadcasting articles from people beyond the topic area has proven immensely valuable for bringing forward the quality of work in the field. If not for Lee Vilenski's comment at the KMEX-DT review, our lead sections might still be one paragraph, for instance. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:38, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

  All points have been adequately addressed. Passed for GA. It is a wonderful world (talk) 19:57, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Prose clock

Lead

• Link "Cases Adobes"
• on the northwest side of Tucson -> "in northwest Tucson"?
  • This is a reasonably common phrasing.

Construction and Autry-Chauncey ownership

• June 21: What year was this?
• KOPO-TV was built relatively quickly: The source doesn't support this, and it is an opinion written in wikivoice.
• Link "coaxial cable"
• Link "call letters"?
• The designation also paired well with KOOL radio and television in Phoenix, which was commonly owned, and as was done in Phoenix, the phones were answered "It's KOLD in Tucson".: This is most likely my lack of knowledge, but I don't understand this sentence at all. The way I read it is: "The designation (referring to the designation of the call letters KOLD to the Autry station) also paired well with KOOL radio and television in Phoenix (I'm not sure how the call letters assigned to these separate stations can "pair well"), which was commonly owned (by who?)"
  • You can request call letters. Up here, they had KOOL (which I've written about a fair bit). They figured KOLD would go well with it in their corporate identity. This is not that uncommon in television. I've tried to reword.

Evening News, Knight Ridder, and News-Press and Gazette ownership

• Link "VHF stations"
• Gannett subsequently spun off KOLD-TV, along with KTVY in Oklahoma City and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, to Knight Ridder Broadcasting for $160 million: I thought "spun off" meant it was formed into a separate company, not sold?
• but affected as many as 15 percent of the station's viewers: "as many as" lacks neutrality
  • Not the "as many", but the 15% is what we have in the source: [1]
• Link "signal ingress issues" to ingress (signal leakage) redirect?

Turnaround

Looks good :)

Shared services agreement with KMSB and KTTU

Looks good :)

Sale to Gray Television

Looks good :)

News operation

• reaching a nadir by the time that [when] it was acquired
• Redlink "Vic Caputo", "Kevin McCabe" and "Pat Evans"?
  • Nope. They don't meet GNG. McCabe maybe as a sports reporter in AZ, but not the other two.
• However, the 2000s would change that picture: This exerts a narrative, better to let the facts speak for themselves.
• KOLD had pulled ahead of KVOA in all evening timeslots in the 25–54 demo: What is "all evening timeslots" and the "25-54 demo"?
• a feat which had not occurred in Tucson in 25 years
• During this time, KOLD-TV also produced a 9 p.m. local newscast for KWBA-TV from 2003 to 2005: Timescale is given twice
• Link "micromanaging"

Subchannels

Looks good :)

Analog-to-digital transition

Link "Catalina Foothills"

Sources clock

Reliability Y

Almost all local news

Spot check clock

[4]Y

[12]Y

[19]Y

[20]: Broken

• All the Oklahoman ones are broken with no archive because of a CMS change, unfortunately. I have to go clip them in articles where they are used. At least this isn't an article about a TV station, you know, in Oklahoma.

[31]Y

[35]: Broken

[45]:Y

Stable Y

Media Y

Can't think of any other images worth adding.

Captions Y

Tags Y

Copyvio Y

2% on earwig, no too-close paraphrasing on spot check.

Suggestions

I'm curious, what are the invisible comments mentioning days of the week for? It is a wonderful world (talk) 15:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

• Added automatically by PressPass, the utility I use to generate citation metadata from Newspapers.com pages. The citation templates don't include a field for weekday, even when newspapers often mention things by day of week.

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