Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CFRE-FM

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus to delete. Merge still possible as an editorial decision, of course. W.marsh 17:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CFRE-FM

This is a campus radio station. I can't find any evidence of non-trivial coverage of it outside its own university. Suggest merge to the university, or transwiki to the student union website. Virtually all of this is generic, indistinguishable from any other campus radio station. Guy (Help!) 11:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep FCC-licensed stations in the US are generally considered notable when listed by their call letters. I don't know if the same would apply to Canadian stations, however. DarkAudit 13:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If it is a licensed broadcasting station (see Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), then it is automatically notable. The station has notable alumni. The radio station is a separate corporation from the student union for a number of reasons. --Eastmain 16:31, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete aricle states that the station is only 1 watt, with that low power the station would not be able to be heard much off campus.--Tdl1060 17:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the university. The article claims they received a government license in 1970, but a search of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission website only turned up reference to an unrelated TV station with those call letters, CFRE-TV (IND) Regina, Saskatchewan [1]. The Canadian government does license low power FM stations for local communities, so it is not impossible that they were given and do have some sort of license, but it would be up to a proponent of keeping the article to find it and add a reference. Edison 23:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep, or merge and redirect to University of Toronto at Mississauga. Even if not licensed, the existence of two notable alumni helps to bolster a claim of notability. Non-trivial independent sources seem to be lacking be on the internet, but given that much of the notability for this station would have been established in the 1970s, I think it is likely that off-line sources could be found. DHowell 02:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, a a Google books search reveals that this station was listed in 1985 and 1987 in the Canadian Almanac & Directory. DHowell 02:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Eastmain. --JJay 02:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Eastmain I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that - I've never seen anything that says that - but then again I don't read too much about radio guidelines. That being said, it does fail the basic notability principles - so here a merge is the best option.--daniel folsom 02:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep per EverybodyHatesChris 02:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per what?--daniel folsom 21:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

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