Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KCTB-LP

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

KCTB-LP

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This was a short-lived LPFM station that existed primarily to provide emergency information, with classic country music as filler when there were no emergencies. Our standards for notability have tightened over the years; it's hard to imagine that this comes anywhere near meeting today's GNG. (There is also mention of an earlier station with the KCTB-FM call sign, but if anything more were to surface about that station it wouldn't go in this article anyway.)

Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes Disaster and Emergency Services, the operator of this station, also operated several other similar stations (which seemed to last only a few years longer than KCTB), whose articles are also being nominated:

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Another station that was part of this "network", KCTQ-LP, recently had its article deleted via PROD. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 08:03, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio and Montana. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 08:03, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per nom, these stations were effectively automated public address systems in small communities. Interesting in the context of a database of small radio stations, but no assertion of notability and unlikely to be any given the nature of the station. Had these stations actually played a part in a notable emergency incident at some point, they could be mentioned in the article for that incident, but it seems that they came on for a year or so and were never used. Flip Format (talk) 11:33, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all, regretfully, as the network was a great idea but never really gelled in reality (it doesn't help that LPFM in the US was lead-piped by commercial interests who don't want competition or prefer certain other types of programming). Nate • (chatter) 19:04, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note As author of the KCTB page, I'm fine with deletion. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:06, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A clear GNG fail that only the change in direction in notability guidelines in the last couple of years pointed out. The KCTB-FM in Cut Bank is unrelated and might not even be a GNG pass; it was on the air from late 1983 until early 1989 before closing for economic reasons. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:43, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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