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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Hog Farm via FACBot (talk) 14 November 2022 [1].

KCPQ

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Nominator(s): Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:02, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For a television station that didn't broadcast in color at all for its first 19 years of broadcasting, channel 13 in western Washington sure has had a colorful history. A summary would run too long even for FAC, but it can be roughly divided into six periods: its foundation as KMO-TV, the short-lived television adjunct of a long-running Tacoma radio station; the J. Elroy McCaw and Blaidon years as KTVW, which saw it run second-fiddle among local independent stations and ended in bankruptcy and a year of silence; its operation by the Clover Park School District as an educational station, curtailed by changing financial circumstances and new local exigencies; return to commercial operation under Kelly Broadcasting, which included Fox affiliation (in 1986), relocation of facilities to Seattle (in 1997), and the beginning of a news department (in 1998) and left KCPQ the definitive fourth force in regional television; 20 years under Tribune Broadcasting, which built KCPQ up substantially in the area of news, and briefly Nexstar Media Group; and its operation as an owned-and-operated station of Fox after the network had coveted it since the 1990s. Along the way, readers will learn of its status as the "funny, fuzzy" station on Seattle's TV dial; the court-appointed trustee who saw enough during an episode of Batman; and Fox's almost-plan to abandon KCPQ and build a Fox-owned station out of the TV equivalent of sticks and stones.

My thanks go to Mike Christie for conducting a pre-FAC content review earlier this year, SounderBruce for taking a photo for this page (an exhaustive search for libre-licensed images last year came up quite empty-handed), and to Trainsandotherthings for conducting the GA review in 2021. I welcome all comments and suggestions. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:02, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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@Nikkimaria All three fixed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:42, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Mike Christie

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As Sammi says, I did a talk page review recently with an eye to FAC. A few more points from a reread:

  • I think the lead could be a bit longer; it's not a short article and currently there are only two short paragraphs in the lead.
    • Rewrote the lead after the first paragraph.
  • "Both stations share studios": suggest "The two stations share studios"; "both" and "share" together are redundant.
  • The mention of Craig McCaw seems unnecessary.
    • This made sense when J. Elroy McCaw did not exist, but it doesn't now that I've created that page.
  • "He first attempted to sell KMO radio and television together to the owners of Seattle radio station KAYO (1150 AM) for $350,000 (equivalent to $2.73 million in 2021 dollars)—with the unusually low purchase price being owed to the station's lack of network affiliation and financial losses[5]—but the FCC warned that it appeared it would need to hold a hearing to approve the sale due to the then-impermissible overlap of the Seattle and Tacoma radio stations' coverage areas;[6] the deal was then scrapped several weeks later." This is a long and complicated sentence, and "being owed to" isn't very fluent. How about "He first attempted to sell KMO radio and television together to the owners of Seattle radio station KAYO (1150 AM) for $350,000 (equivalent to $2.73 million in 2021 dollars)—an unusually low purchase price because of the station's lack of network affiliation and financial losses. The FCC warned that it appeared it would need to hold a hearing to approve the sale due to the then-impermissible overlap of the Seattle and Tacoma radio stations' coverage areas, and the deal was scrapped several weeks later."
  • "The Americans lost money and were sold back to the Western Hockey League in May 1958." Why are we mentioning this? We don't say it ended the broadcasting of the games, and unless it did, the ownership and finances of the team don't seem relevant.
    • Ended up putting this detail in the new J. Elroy McCaw page.
  • "Ultimately, the station conducted a power boost to 214,000 watts in 1960." Suggest "Instead, the station boosted the power of the transmitter in Ruston to 214,000 watts in 1960." I think it's worth explicitly mentioning Ruston again to clarify this was not a move; and "instead" makes it clear this was because the proposal failed.
  • "The business news programming met its definitive end that April." Suggest rephrasing to avoid "definitive" since it was relaunched in 1971.
  • "(Harriott soon left when KIRO-TV offered him a job.[58])" I don't think you need the parentheses.
  • "the pair saw the Seattle–Tacoma market as having recovered from the market conditions that claimed KTVW four years prior and being overserved by educational stations": suggest "the pair saw the Seattle–Tacoma market as having recovered from the market conditions that had claimed KTVW four years prior, and as being overserved by educational stations".
    • Done, but without the comma.
  • "This purchase price was financed earlier that year by Kelly Broadcasting's sale of two radio stations in Sacramento." Suggest "The purchase price was financed by Kelly Broadcasting's sale, earlier that year, of two radio stations in Sacramento."

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:40, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator comment

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Three weeks in and just the single general support. Unless this nomination makes significant further progress towards a consensus to promote over the next three or four days I am afraid that it is liable to be archived. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:15, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but this one has stalled out; archiving per Gog's comment above. Hog Farm Talk 04:27, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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