Talk:CFVO-TV

Discrepancy over close-down of station

This article mentioned that the station closed in 1977. However, according to the CCF article for Télé-Québec, the station closed in 1976. Which is correct? -- azumanga (talk) 04:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Trouble is, that page is actually in conflict with their own page for CFVO, which says 1977. This is actually not an unknown problem with CCF (occasionally you even get really lucky and the ownership table and extended history pages for the same station provide contradictory information!), and certainly bears investigation — but for what it's worth, the {{contradict-other}} template is meant for situations where our articles on two topics contradict each other, not for situations where there's a conflict between external references. Bearcat (talk) 04:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that the board of directors of Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV rejected the resignation of its president so he could negotiate a loan? Source: Ottawa Citizen "Manager can't quit"
  • ALT1:... that the airing of blue movies on Quebec television station CFVO-TV resulted in high ratings and a raid from the Ottawa Police Service? Source: Ottawa Citizen "Blue flicks", Ottawa Citizen "Televised 'love' stories unfit for some viewers"
  • ALT2:... that Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV sold $10 shares to the public? Source: Ottawa Citizen "CFVO fades to its demise"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bigtooth cardinalfish

5x expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:33, 14 May 2020 (UTC).

• Approve ALT0, ALT1, ALT2 New enough (6× expansion in 7 days before nomination), long enough, neutral and well cited, with no copyvio detected (spot-checked newspapers.com sources which are displayed as graphics, preventing Earwig from comparing to article). QPQ checks out. Verified hooks ALT0 and ALT1. The inline citation for ALT2 did not verify the hook fact, but I found it in Ottawa Citizen "CFVO fades to its demise" and added an inline citation. So hook facts are good, verified, with inline citations, of good length, properly formatted, and interesting. I considered if the piped link to pornographic film might be non-neutral, but the Ontario court deemed the films "obscene" for "exploiting sex" which seems to fit (Ottawa Journal "A blue day for CFVO"). So, all good, approving all hooks. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:21, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:CFVO-TV/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Eddie891 (talk · contribs) 22:06, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

I will take this on shortly... Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:06, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Comments

• "While the English-language outlets in western Canada would be the second private commercial outlet in those areas, the Ottawa station would be the first French-language commercial facility in the National Capital Region." maybe try something like "there was one existing[...] there were no" rather than 'would be the (first or second)', I think that would be clearer
• "a cooperative media outlet, settling on television." what does 'cooperative' mean here?
• "The new organization," is the org CTVO or something else? When did it seek to "raise $1 million" -- before or after July?
• "all but one of its members " would 'employees' fit better here?
• " however, there" does 'however' really fit here? I'd suggest removing it
• "output would be locally produced" would 'content' be a better stand-in for 'output'?
• "strong impression" a good or bad one?
• " dozen area organizations" would 'local organisations' fit better?
• "... and 60 written submissions backed the CTVO bid" do we know about the other bids?
• "that the funds raised would " had they raised all the money they sought to?
• "president Raymond" suggest "their president..."
• link tower of Babel
• "would broadcast the first UHF" when?
• "However, signs of financial troubles began to arise" maybe "soon began to arise"?
• I think overall, you could add some more links
• " and not living up to its promise" maybe reiterate the promise here
• "The new year brought" maybe clarify what year
• "claiming he was "tired"" tired of what?
• "The 1976 renewal cycle" what does 'renewal cycle' refer to here?
• "that it would loan $700,000" loan who the money?

That's my initial comments. OVerall, very nice work. Minor stuff, none of it is huge, I won't hinge my final call upon any individual point. happy to discuss further. Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:57, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Made a number of changes, though not all, Eddie891, but I want to address some things specifically:

• It's a legit cooperative. That's really significant as it's what led to a lot of interest in this station pre-launch, what won them the licence (as this form of organization is a novelty in television broadcasting) and arguably what failed it in the long run. See, for instance, History of the cooperative movement.
• I prefer area over local because of the large region (two provinces) served by this station.
• Yes we do have info on the rival bids: there's a section talking about the other bids (look for the mention of Corporation Civitas).
• The "tired" is a quote; he literally said "I am tired".

Raymie (t • c) 01:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

• Raymie I've had a look at a number of sources, everything lines up except for the one thing I changed. Otherwise, this meets the GA criteria-- passing. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)