Template:Did you know nominations/KTVK

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:53, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

KTVK

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• ... that Phoenix, Arizona, television station KTVK lost its network affiliation, because, according to an executive, "Scripps ha[d] a gun to ABC's head"? Source: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/151886 — Click on 1518860009.pdf and go to PDF page 8.
  • ALT1:... that within a decade, Phoenix, Arizona, television station KTVK went from being a "blot on ABC's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly? Source: Above source, PDF page 16, plus https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33915487/shifts-in-phoenix-tv-scene-signal/
  • ALT2:... that in the early 1960s, Walter Cronkite proposed to become the main anchor for Phoenix, Arizona, television station KTVK, as part of a deal that the owner could not afford to make? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34063376/coming-into-the-picture-family-run/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Elmo Aardvark

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 05:12, 16 July 2021 (UTC).

Interesting complex GA, on plenty of good sources, few offlin sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. In all hooks, I'm no friend of having to wade through 4 words before arriving at the station name. I'm no friend of the "gun" image, nor on Cronkite proposing something that didn't become real. Open to an ALT3. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: What about the following reword of ALT1?

ALT1a: ... that KTVK went from being a "blot on ABC's affiliate ledger" to a television station the network only gave up reluctantly within a decade?

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:08, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, and how about this version?

ALT1b:... that within a decade, KTVK in Phoenix went from being a "blot on ABC's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly?

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 20 July 2021 (UTC)