Talk:KCTV/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 16:56, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Steelkamp (talk · contribs) 07:42, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

In 1956, the present tower, a Kansas City landmark, was constructed to broadcast the station. Well it was technically constructed from 1955 to 1956, so something like this would be more accurate: In 1956, the present tower, a Kansas City landmark, was completed to broadcast the station.
Over protests from Kansas City civic leaders, KCMO-TV moved its studio facilities to Fairway, Kansas, at the end of 1977. How about this Despite protests from Kansas City civic leaders, KCMO-TV moved its studio facilities to Fairway, Kansas, at the end of 1977. Otherwise it could be interpreted to mean the protests caused the relocation.

History

On January 26, 1948, the KCMO Broadcasting Corporation, owner of Kansas City radio station KCMO (810 AM). Is this stated in the source?
KCKN had originally sought channel 2, which was removed from Kansas City in the final 1952 allocations; that station then amended its application to specify channel 5. Source 3 says that KCKN had applied for channel 9. Is that source just wrong?
- I believe it is a typo, as no other source including Broadcasting shows channel 9. Their post-freeze application in July 1952 requested channel 5.
The New England Broadcasting application dismissal is mentioned, but not the dismissal of the KCKN application. This seems to have occurred at the same time as KCMO got the construction permit (according to KDTD), so I suggest something like: The FCC dismissed the KCKN application and granted KCMO the construction permit on June 3, 1953, at which time the station estimated that KCMO-TV would begin in about four months.
- More information added.
Link VHF and UHF.
Meredith executives, including company founder and namesake Edwin T. Meredith. That can't be right, seeing as Meredith died in 1928. Possibly the founder's son instead?
- Yes, and that's on me. Reworded.
that brought WOW-TV in Omaha, Nebraska (1951) and KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona (1952) into the fold. Some MOS:GEOCOMMA issues here.
- Fixed.
Suggestion: Add |agency=Associated Press to source 35.
- Done.
On May 3, 2021, after 68 years of Meredith ownership, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division, including KCTV and KSMO, for $2.7 billion. The sale was completed on December 1. Does the date "May 3, 2021" have a source? The source given only mentions a "previously announced acquisition". A source form May 2021 would be good. Also, can an additional source for the sale completion in December be given, rather than just a seemingly not well known wire service?
- Reworded. Better sources added.

Local programming

Though figures improved to the point where channel 5 narrowly edged out channel 9 in 1996, but its ratings slid back in most time periods during 1998. There's something grammatically incorrect here. How about Though figures improved to the point where channel 5 narrowly edged out channel 9 in 1996, its ratings slid back in most time periods during 1998.
- Easy to miss with a big reference in the middle of the wikitext. Thanks for catching.
Article says that KCTV's newscasts were in first place among the Kansas City market's three main local television news outlets between 1979 and 1994, but that by the early 1990s, KMBC-TV had taken a clear first place in the market and that ratings continued to slide to lows not seen since the early 1980s. How does this all work and make sense together? Am I missing something?
- Reworded and made some other changes in this area. @Steelkamp: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:51, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion: Mark source 73 (Broadcasting & Cable) as dead.
After a major severe weather outbreak in May 2003. Is this redundant. How about After a severe weather outbreak in May 2003?
when the station announced that it would shut down its in-house sports department and entered into an outsourcing agreement with local cable sports channel Metro Sports. -> when the station announced that it would shut down its in-house sports department and enter into an outsourcing agreement with local cable sports channel Metro Sports.
- All three above fixed.
following the closure of the Meredith purchase. This is referring to the purchase of KSMO-TV right? if so, then I recommend following the closure of the purchase, because it's not Meredith that's being purchased.
- Yes — in this case, I had written KSMO-TV first.
replacing KCTV after 17 years. The source indicates it was over 20 years though?
- Well, they're wrong. The ref before (from September 2002) reads, KCTV has dethroned WDAF as television broadcaster of the Kansas City Chiefs preseason games starting next season. KCTV and the Chiefs announced a deal Tuesday by which the station will broadcast Chiefs preseason games through the 2005 season. Kirk Black, the station's vice president and general manager, declined to disclose financial terms of the deal. WDAF had broadcast Chiefs preseason games for the past six years, a Chiefs spokesman said. I realize that deal starts in 2003, not 2002, which I have fixed. I've verified that the Chiefs switched from KMBC to WDAF in 1997.
KCTV previously produced the talk and lifestyle program Better Kansas City. The start year of this program is mentioned but not the end year.
- Lack of RS (and I'm sorry I missed this). It seems to have been canceled in June 2020 or so at the height of COVID, per a blog we don't cite here. Not surprising to see this as I've run across some shows of this kind that were canned to make way for news or because they couldn't have guests (see the last paragraph in the news section at WZZM).
There are several notable former on-air staff that are not mentioned in the list at the bottom but are in the prose above, including John Ferrugia, Ash-har Quraishi and Wendall Anschutz.
- The intention is that anyone I couldn't mention in running text goes there. This is an arrangement I am moving toward in most station articles. This is how I put it earlier this week on another user's talk page: I also have a general preference, where possible (without forcing it), to ensure as many people that naturally should be linked in running text are linked there and are not stuffed in an alumni section. @Steelkamp: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:26, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technical information

No comments here.

Tower

No comments here.

General comments

Sources checked: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 49, 51, 53, 58, 59, 61, 65

I've done over half the review today and intend to finish it tomorrow. Steelkamp (talk) 15:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources checked today: 57, 65, 68, 73, 74, 79, 80, 90, 92, 96, 101, 102, 105, 108, 118.

My review is complete. Putting it on hold now. Steelkamp (talk) 08:06, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]