Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theater 10:30

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:45, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Theater 10:30

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Article is the epitome of a stub, fails per WP:GNG and WP:N, no sources whatsoever provided, and the first result when searching for coverage of the subject quotes the Wikipedia article. Stormy clouds (talk) 22:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 22:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 22:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I ran a ProQuest search for older newspaper coverage, and was able to find a couple of very brief acknowledgements that this existed in coverage of CBC Radio's overall scheduling announcements — but those sources wouldn't enable me to add anything more to this article than what year it debuted and what year it was cancelled (which, for the record, were in the 1970s, not the 1950s as this article once claimed, so it's not "old time radio" either.) I was able to find nothing that would enable the addition of any real substance, or even to fill in all the "19xx-xx-xx" dates, because outside of that all I found was its presence (just as the overall series title, not as any individual episode titles) in the radio schedule grids that newspapers used to publish next to the TV listings. None of this represents substantive coverage for the purposes of getting it over WP:GNG, and per WP:NMEDIA the mere fact of being on CBC Radio is not an automatic inclusion freebie that exempts it from having to pass GNG. No prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody with access to a different set of newspapers than I've got can find more real coverage than I was able to find. Bearcat (talk) 19:19, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No sources, no credible claim of notability. And not enough here for an article either.TheLongTone (talk) 14:36, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The actual program was called "Theatre 10:30" (-re) so googling "Theater" (-er) skews the results. Having said that, my search (with adjusted spelling) pretty much yielded the same results as Bearcat. There may have been two separate programs on CBC called Theatre 10:30 -- one source makes mention of a Theatre 10:30 existing from 1955-1956. Other sources make reference to a program existing in 1968 and into the early 1970s. However, none of the sources go into any detail and one is a blog in any case. All we can be certain of is that a program or programs existed and that it was some sort of mystery anthology. The old time radio thing probably refers to a description of the program as in the style of old time radio, but was actually produced sometime between 1968 and into the 1970s. (As a side note, I recall hearing a radio mystery on CBC as a kid in the 1970s and the whole thing was done as a retro old-timey thing. It may have been this very program but I have no way of confirming it. Besides, my increasingly faltering memory probably fails WP:RS). It doesn't appear that any program under this title was notable enough to talk about in any reliable source beyond proving that it merely existed. Maybe there's a book out there that tells us more but failing that, I can't imagine this article could pass any standard for notability and I doubt it could even be written to any level of completeness as there's no known list of episodes or any information on such things as a host, performers, writers etc. freshacconci (✉) 18:48, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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