Talk:WEMT/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 17:04, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 19:18, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Note: @DaniloDaysOfOurLives and I are working very hard to review every single GA nomination in the television section. Consider joining us to clear the backlog!

Challenge... accepted... IAWW (talk) 19:18, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie Nice article, comments are below. IAWW (talk) 19:18, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

@It is a wonderful world Done. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 01:36, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie I'm happy with all your changes and fixed the dead link. Passing now. IAWW (talk) 07:33, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Prose (Criteria 1a, 1b, 4) clock

Lead

However, Sinclair effectively owns WEMT; the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith: Although it's the lead, I think this needs to be explained a bit more clearly even if that involves a slight expansion. I don't understand how the ownership of Cunningham's stock causes Sinclair to effectively own WEMT.

I just got to the end of the article and noticed the above statement is also not supported in the body.

WETO affiliated with Fox the next year, but the undercapitalized local owners sold the station in 1989 to MT Communications: "but" is a weird connective here, because there doesn't seem to be a clear contrast

East Tennessee's Own

What is "the fourth network"?

WETO-TV suffered after several years: Do you mean "for" several years?

difficulties achieving cable carriage from the repeal of must-carry rules requiring systems to offer local stations: It's not clear how these repeals would affect their ability to achieve cable carriage

MT Communications ownership

a public auction was held: Be clear this is for the station

In 1990, its stations in Memphis and Nashville lost their Fox affiliations to higher-rated independents in their markets, the latter in a deal in which the Nashville station sold much of its programming inventory.[23][24] WMTU continued to air Fox programming until 1992, when it resumed broadcasting WLMT on a full-time basis: Seems excessive detail for this article. I think this info belongs on wiki somewhere though. Is MT Communications notable enough for its own article?

Max Media and Sinclair ownership

because it owned a station with an overlapping coverage area: I think a short explanation of how this breaks FCC rules would be appropriate here.

Sinclair had to wait: Seems weird wording here, since they never actually acquired it in the end

Operation with WCYB

Looks good :)

Sources clock

Health/formatting (Criterion 2a) clock

[39] is broken

Reliability (Criterion 2b) Y

No issues as always with your work

Spot check (Criteria 2b, 2c, 2d) clock

[12]: Doesn't support that the problematic legislation was specifically the "must-carry" laws.

[17]: Y

[22]: "MT Communications had its own struggles, though the Tri-Cities were not as affected" seems a bit like WP:SYNTH. At least, it isn't supported by this source.

[25, 26]: Y

[33]: Y

Copyvio (Criterion 2d) Y

Earwig finds nothing, I found nothing on the spot check.

Scope (Criteria 3a, 3b) Y

Seems to cover everything

Media Y

Suggestions (not needed for GA promotion)

As always, modern monetary conversions would be nice! IAWW (talk) 19:18, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

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