Talk:WMC-TV

WMC (NBC)
Slogan: Coverage You Can Count On
Memphis, Tennessee
Channel 5 Digital channel 52
Owner	Raycom
Founded	December 11, 1948 originally on Channel 4
Signal Radius	Memphis, Tennessee
Callsign Meaning	unknown
Former Callsigns	WMCT
Former Affiliations	DuMont, CBS, ABC
Address	1960 Union Avenue Memphis, Tennessee, 38104
Website:	www.wmctv.com

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Anyone know the dates for the call sign change and channel switch? I also put the old infobox here, in case anyone likes it better. - Hinto 11:47, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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Respectfully Maurice Dickerson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.64.214.30 (talk) 17:08, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

Hello, Please do not add unreferenced or improperly referenced names as entries to the list of former employees in the article. Not including this type of material in articles abides by current consensus and is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

1. WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
3. WP:NLIST tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
4. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). thanks Deconstructhis (talk) 06:37, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Protection

I've fully protected the article for three days due to the ongoing edit warring. Please discuss the matter here instead of reverting more when protection expires. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:50, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 22 August 2014

All news stations on Wikipedia have a list of the current and former news personalities at the station. For whatever reason, User "Sphsu" has removed this list on only this news station. In addition, a new meteorologist has recently joined the station.

I request that this section be added back just below the sentence "Formerly the market leader in ratings, WMC typically trails WREG by several ratings points, if not more.", under the heading "News Operation". Remove current "Former-on air staff" in lieu of a more expansive list at the bottom of this request.

--begin source--

Newscast titles

• Television 5 News/TV–5 News (1960–1970)
• 5 on The Scene News (1970–1974)
• NewsCenter 5 (1974–1976)
• Action News 5 (1976–2014)
• WMC Action News 5 (2014–present)

Station slogans

• "The NewsCenter of The Mid–South" (1983–1989)
• "The Mid–South's Only 24–Hour News Channel" (1990–1995)
• "The Mid–South's News Leader" (1990–2001)
• "Coverage You Can Count On. Every Day." (1992–1999)
• "First To Care. First To Serve." (2014–present)

On-air staff

Current on-air staff

Anchors

• Lindsey Brown - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 a.m.) and weekdays at noon; also reporter
• Andrew Douglas - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 a.m.); also reporter
• Kym Clark - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on WMC and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WMC-DT2 Bounce TV)
• Jarvis Greer - weekdays at 4:00 p.m.; also weeknight sports director
• Pam McKelvy - weekdays at 4:00 p.m. (formerly at WREG 3)
• Joe Birch - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Ursula Madden - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Kontji Anthony - weekend mornings (8:00-10:00 Saturdays and 8:00-9:00 a.m. Sundays); also reporter
• Anna Marie Hartman - Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
• Ben Watson - Sunday mornings (8:00-9:00 a.m.); also weekday morning reporter

WMC Action News 5 Storm Tracking Team

• Ron Childers (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Dave Brown (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weeknights at 6:00 p.m.
• Andrew Kozak (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) - meteorologist; weekday mornings 4:30-7:00 on WMC and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WMC-DT2 Bounce TV
• Spencer Denton (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekdays at noon and 4:00 p.m.
• Tim Van Horn - meteorologist; weekend mornings (8:00-10:00 Saturdays and 8:00-9:00 a.m. Sundays), Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Bailey Melton - meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team

• Jarvis Greer - sports director; weeknights at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Carrie Anderson - sports reporter/anchor; Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
• Ari Alexander - sports reporter/producer; fill-in weekend anchor

Reporters

• Janice Broach - general assignment reporter
• Michael Clark - North Mississippi reporter
• Janeen Gordon - weekday morning traffic reporter
• Shay Harris - general assignment reporter
• Sasha Jones - general assignment reporter
• Nick Kenney - general assignment reporter
• Jason Miles - general assignment reporter
• Amy Speropoulos - weekday morning reporter
• Lauren Squires - general assignment reporter
• Andy Wise - chief consumer investigator

Former on-air staff

• Lance Russell - freelance host; best known as the host of the live Championship Wrestling program on Saturday mornings (joined the station in 1977 from WHBQ-TV)
• Dick Williams - host of Magicland (1966–1989)
• Jack Eaton
• Donna Davis - anchor
• Richard Ransom - anchor; now at WREG
• John Bryant - weather
• George Brown - reporter; now at WREG
• Joyce Peterson - anchor; moved to WATN until 2014
• Darrell Phillips - reporter; now an attorney
• Carrie McClure - anchor; now at WFAA-TV
• Mike Puccinelli - anchor; now at WBBM-TV

--end source--

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit protected}} template. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

References

News Personality Listing

All news stations on Wikipedia have a list of the current and former news personalities at the station. User "Sphsu" has removed this list on only this news station. In addition, a new meteorologist has recently joined the station. Also, "Sphsu" has deleted the Newscast Titles, which is commonplace for all news station Wiki articles.

All necessary info can be found here: http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/category/5645/news-team-biographies

In addition, it makes no sense to have a "Former on-air staff" section, but not list the "Current on-air staff"...

I've put in an edit request to return this information. — • ) 01:25, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

"All news stations" There has been a consensus developing against these. Most of the time they are just a list of non-notable people. If there are, in fact, notable staff members whose presence can be cited beyond those of the station itself, they can be included, but not like this. ViperSnake151  Talk  15:08, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

False, I have removed staff lists on WIBW-TV and WSAV recently. And as you point out in one of your edit summaries I cannot do them all over night, so I have been doing them when I do other edits on station articles. I have run across other that have been informed of this consensus on other station article talk, only for them (or a new editor) to come back return the information. It also customary only to have the current newscast branding.

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material also gives the reasoning for not adding this information. Previous consensus was reached here:

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_9#Arguments_for_Excluding_.22Where_Are_They_Now.3F.22
• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_10#Current_on-air_staff_list_discussion
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television Stations/Archive 9#Alumni (and current staff) Lists

There were probably more, you can go find them. Spshu (talk) 17:56, 22 August 2014 (UTC)