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Owned by church or by newspaper?
editquote, emphasis added:
- After being sold to The Christian Science Monitor in 1986, WQTV became the nucleus of a major production operation, which in 1991 spawned a cable television channel, the Monitor Channel. After $325 million in losses, this service shut down in 1992, and the church sold WQTV to Boston University
Either (1) the church (not the paper) bought WQTV in 1986 or (2) the paper (not the church) sold WQTV in 1992 or (3) the paper transferred ownership of WQTV to the church at some point between 1986 and 1992 or (4) the legal person of the paper was absorbed by the legal person of the church at some point between 1986 and 1992. jnestorius(talk) 12:09, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Jnestorius, there's a good metonymy question here, and I'm glad someone found it.
- The licensee was the Christian Science Monitor Syndicate, Inc., an allied firm of the Christian Science Publishing Society, which printed the Monitor. This structure was necessary because the latter had a policy of only employing Christian Scientists, which was not possible for a broadcast TV station under equal employment opportunity laws.
- I've changed the lead to read "the Monitor sold WQTV". Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
December 2023
edit@Sammi Brie: Could you add a WBPX/WPXG signal contour map to this article like you did at WUVN? Mvcg66b3r (talk) 06:48, 24 December 2023 (UTC)