Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WTAM-LD

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The result was redirect‎ to List of stations owned by Innovate Corp.. Malinaccier (talk) 02:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WTAM-LD

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Fails WP:GNG; some references are outdated. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 07:27, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Florida. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 07:27, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of stations owned by Innovate Corp.: A history (which, despite what the article implies, actually goes back to the early 1990s, albeit with the license history being severed via a digital companion channel) of mostly national services isn't the path to significant coverage, even before HC2/Innovate took over. There may well be something out there (as best I can tell this is actually this article's first deletion nomination — it wasn't part of that bulk nomination of many other HC2/Innovate station articles), but as currently written this is another remnant of the far looser inclusion standards of 2006. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:45, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is a second St. Pete Times article on WTAM ([1] + [2]). The station history appears to run like this. Owners in the 90s included Carol E. Schatz and Equity Broadcasting Corporation's Kaleidoscope channel (it was W06BE on channel 6 before becoming WTAM). It was sold to US Interactive LLC, which wanted to (and probably did) use the station in wireless internet testing. It gets sold to Lotus (both of these are similar to KPHE-LD Phoenix) and goes Spanish, though attempt number one fails. I just wish we had more to go on. A third solid reference in local media would have me keeping this, but a redirect might suffice. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 08:00, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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