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A fact from WPVD-TV appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 July 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the director of Rhode Island PBS confronted the state's governor in a sandwich shop to ask for funding?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WPVD-TV.

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WSBE Analog Transmitter Failure

Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Due to a failure of its analog channel 36 transmitter on January 15, 2009, WSBE is now transmitting a digital-only signal on channel 21. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.106.150 (talk) 23:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 19:18, 3 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that the director of Rhode Island PBS confronted the state's governor in a sandwich shop and advocated for him to continue providing funding? Source: https://current.org/2013/09/susan-farmer-rhode-island-politician-and-pubtv-exec-dies-at-71/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Juma Khan Fateh
- Comment: 5x from Special:Permalink/1361970674 (3783 to 19114 characters RPS); DYKcheck does not pick this up. I'm fudging a bit historically with the use of the name "Rhode Island PBS" in 1991, but it reads better than "a Rhode Island TV station".

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 825 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:45, 3 July 2026 (UTC).Reply

This is a really good hook. Checks out with the sources, article is eligible, and the hook is featured in the article. QPQ checks out. No evidence of copyvio. I think we're good to go! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:24, 3 July 2026 (UTC)Reply