Talk:WLOS

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Nielsen Media NOT the FCC defines TV markets. I changed the article to edit that out. 4.142.132.85 00:53, 25 July 2007 (UTC)Nick

Station ID: What does that small print say?

I have noticed that the WLOS station ID has what looks like a paragraph of very small print down in either the lower left hand or the lower right hand corner. It doesn't stay on long enough to allow the viewer to read the whole thing, but it looks like it says something about the City of Asheville. What is this? Note: this is NOT the same thing as the list of translators (low-powered repeaters) that appears on certain station IDs. That's fairly straightforward. This is something else, something I've never seen on any other TV station before.

Other meanings of WLOS

Can anyone find other meanings of WLOS (with no restrictions other than that it is a meaning of WLOS) by doing a Google search?? Georgia guy 17:36, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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The "W" of course, is the letter used by broadcast stations east of the Mississippi. The "LOS" stands for "Land of the Sky," a term coined by the Asheville Chamber of Commerse to market Asheville as a tourist destination.

Reasons for Pre-empting

Why were some programs broadcasted pre-empted is there a specific reason they wern't/

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

WLOS's 60th Anniversary coming up.

On September 18, 2014, WLOS will celebrate 60 years on the air. WYFF and WMYA already celebrated 60 years on the air last year and WHNS has already celebrated their 30th this year, only that they didn't announce it. Hopefully unlike WMYA's 60th, which you may not realize that it's the first station in the GSAA metropolitan area, WLOS is the 3rd TV station to sign on for that market. I think they will do their 60th Anniversary, maybe completely different from WYFF's 60th. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.213.7.78 (talk) 15:00, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

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GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:WLOS/GA1.

Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 04:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC) [The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Arconning (talk · contribs) 11:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I will be reviewing this article, comments will probably be finished in the next 72 hours! Good luck to the editors! Arconning (talk · contribs)

@Sammi Brie This'll be the comments, hope they can be addressed! Arconning (talk · contribs) 17:30, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• @Arconning: Thanks for the review. I've responded and made a few changes.
  • @Arconning: Oops. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
    • @Sammi Brie: Everything seems good, congrats on the new GA! Arconning (talk · contribs) 6:43, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Prose and MoS

Lede

• Well written, no issues.

History

• Hyperlink 1948 freeze to Federal Communications Commission#Freeze of 1948
  • Done
• WSKY was out of the contest by August 1953,, "out of the contest" kind of informal? Would like to know an explanation :)
  • Fixed. Informality tends to crop up from time to time in my work...
• By July, work was under way on the Mount Pisgah transmitter facility, and a September 18 start date goal had been set;[13] WLOS-TV had signed for affiliation with ABC and the DuMont Television Network.[14], what year? If it's in 1954 you could use By July of the same year... or specify.
  • Fixed with mention earlier.
• Citizen-Times option,..., he Citizen-Times option through his other broadcast property,..., italicize Citizen-Times?
  • I am referring to the company, not the newspaper of the same name, which it owned.
• AnchorMedia, mentions of the company should be spaced into "Anchor Media" on the sources given ([36] and [37]).
  • I will object because the papers cited are in the wrong. The company's own logo CamelCases this name. Trade journals do too.
• It also was something of a consolation prize;, outmuscled, informal but would like to hear a reason why this is so.
  • Changed.

Programming

• It also was initially the smallest of the three TV newsrooms in the region., change to it was also.
• a news bureau in Spartanburg., hyperlink Spartanburg.
  • These two fixed.
• AnchorMedia, mentions of the company should be spaced into "Anchor Media."
  • See above.

Technical information

• FCC, hyperlink.

References

• Add access dates on refs, [1], [3], [43]
  • [1] is generated by infobox. [3] is technically a "print" source that does not need accessdate.
    • Fair enough.
• Would be nice to link refs [55], [66]
  • [55] and [66] were in unlinkable NewsBank full-text databases. In the time since this article was written and even since this was nominated, GenealogyBank (a NewsBank sister site) has added this paper full-run, so this is now possible.
    • Got it.
• No original research.

Spotchecks

• Manual checking, earwig, both shows nothing. Pass.

Images

• All images have proper licenses and captions.
• No copyright violations in the images.
• Would be nice if we put some images of the notable former on-air staff on the Programming section.
  • I've never had this floated at me, and while it might work for a few articles where the people had longer stays at the station or became really famous (e.g. maybe Tom Brokaw at KTIV), it really doesn't with this crew.

Misc.

• Article has no ongoing edit war, stable.

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 01:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that a North Carolina TV station broadcast from a "residential showplace" considered "one of [the] finest" houses in town? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119065321/public-hearing-slated-today-on-macon-ave/
  • ALT1: ... that the owner of a North Carolina TV station set revenue goals so high that the entire sales force turned over? Source: https://archive.org/details/sim_televisionweek_1985-12-16_4_51/page/n39/mode/2up?q=WLOS
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chestnut Street Opera House

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 683 past nominations.

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Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 19:24, 21 April 2024 (UTC).

• Recent GA with QPQ done. No copyvio detected, hooks cited and verified. Prefer the original hook. Juxlos (talk) 03:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

WLOS transmitter move

Why is there no mention of the WLOS transmitter moving to Pinnacle Mountain from Mt. Pisgah? This is generally understood to be a matter of fact as communicated by the station earlier this year, ref the link below. Attempts to add this information to the article have resulted in removal?

https://wlos.com/news/local/wlos-tower-mount-pisgah-pinnacle-mountain-move-celebrating-70-years-broadcasting-western-north-carolina Jpw67 (talk) 00:38, 23 September 2024 (UTC)