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A fact from WCOS-TV appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that South Carolina's first television station, WCOS-TV, "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:00, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that South Carolina's first television station, WCOS-TV, "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up? Source: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-Digest/50s/Television-Digest-1956-Q1.pdf#page=58

ALT1: ... that the Quonset hut studio of South Carolina's first television station, WCOS-TV, was later used to record the Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs song "Stay"? Source: [1]
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bayshore Route

Moved to mainspace by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 18:54, 24 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Nicely done! My preference is for ALT0, although both are approved. Would recommend adding "simply" to the beginning of the quote on ALT0, it's much funnier that way. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 08:25, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]