Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CKTT-FM

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:47, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CKTT-FM

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Delete. This is a long-defunct tourist information radio station, which is a class of radio station that WP:NMEDIA deprecates as not getting an automatic presumption of notability just because it exists — but the station is the subject of no coverage about it in media to get it over WP:GNG. The only "sources" here are CRTC decisions for the initial license approval, and the general exemption order (not specifically mentioning this station) that released this class of stations from actually having to have licenses at all anymore — but the problem is that while this station is defunct, we can't source when or why it went defunct in the absence of reliable source coverage about it. CRTC documents are helpful sources to start an article with — they get you things like ERP, HAAT, regulatory violations, etc. — but they can't be an article's only possible sources if the station otherwise fails GNG. Bearcat (talk) 20:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 01:54, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"delete' for the good reasons stated above.198.58.162.176 (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; there's no presumption of notability for tourist information stations, licensed or not, and it seems unlikely that CKTT-FM will ever attain the coverage in reliable sources to meet the general notability guideline, much less to verify whether it is still operating. (Incidentally, there was a numbered company that tried to buy the station to essentially replace a tourist information station with a religious station, but their plans were rejected by the CRTC in 2006. Had CKTT-FM been allowed to make this format change, it may well have eventually attained notability, but since it never happened I don't think it's enough to get CKTT over the notability hump.) --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:39, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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