Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Total Living Network

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The result was keep. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:55, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Total Living Network

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Local TV network, no sources found Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:59, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:59, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Religion and Illinois. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 05:36, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• Delete only sources that show up in Google are the official website (WP:PRIMARY). Does not establish notability and greatly fails GNG.—Mythdon (talk • contribs) 14:38, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
  • Moving to Keep per the sources provided by Cunard. The sources provided by Cunard are WP:SIGCOV and pertain specifically to Total Living Network itself.—Mythdon (talk • contribs) 22:29, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
  1. Murphy, H. Lee (2004-08-09). "Christian media group branches out". Crain's Chicago Business. Vol. 27, no. 32. p. 6. ISSN 0149-6956. EBSCOhost 14174829.

     The article notes: "Total Living, which posted close to $20 million in revenues last year, acquired a 38-acre farmland site adjacent to the Interstate 88-Orchard Road interchange in Aurora from the Aurora Christian School, which had been holding the land for a new campus and athletic fields. The studio and headquarters have been built on seven acres with frontage on the tollway, and the rest of the land is being offered for sale as part of a business park called the Vision Center. Real estate experts estimate that Total Living paid roughly $100,000 per acre for its land."

  2. Krone, Emily (2004-08-08). "Station founder reaches out Christian network to moves - Aurora with plans to broadcast to national audience". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "TLN, which relocated in July from Chicago to capitalize on cheaper land costs, operates television stations in Rockford, Ill., Las Vegas and San Francisco and broadcasts original programming to 51 affiliate stations potentially reaching 50 million viewers. All programs produced at the center's two studios are shot with high definition technology and distributed through broadcast stations, cable casting, digital television, satellite delivery and the Internet. Cable systems across the country, including Comcast, Multimedia and Time Warner, carry the TLN channel. ... The network's programming reflects its founder's beliefs: evangelical Christianity, the validity of the Bible, the sanctity of marriage, the possibility of salvation."

  3. Faber, Jim (2003-09-12). "Christian TV network to build new headquarters in Aurora; $18 million project: Total Living Network making move from Chicago's West Side". Courier News. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "Construction has started on the city's west side for the new headquarters and television studios of the Total Living Network, a Christian television network. Total Living Network will move from its current offices on Chicago's West Side into a 65,792-square-foot, $18 million building off Deerpath Road in April 2004 and have the studio up and running by July 2004. The network is best-known for its programs Encounters with the Unexplained with Jerry Orbach, Aspiring Women and Total Living with Jerry Rose."

  4. Vergara, Rowena (2010-02-03). "TLN will lease facilities it sold to Hobby Lobby". The Beacon-News. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "What does arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby have in common with Aurora-based religious channel Total Living Network? Both operate as Christian-minded companies, but the similarities seem to end there. That has now changed. At the end of December, these two companies with completely different objectives entered into a lease agreement over Total Living Network's state-of-the-art production facility at 2880 Vision Court, Aurora."

  5. Carrel, Elisabeth (2003-10-25). "Christian network building studio in Aurora". Daily Herald. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "The network began 27 years ago in Chicago as TV38. Since then, it grown to include TV stations in Chicago, Rockford and the San Francisco area. The network's production company creates films and video projects."

  6. Faber, Jim (2004-07-04). "Just a little TLN Total Living Network's new state-of-the-art television studio on Aurora's West Side will bring Christian programming to as many as 50 million viewers". The Beacon-News. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "The Total Living Network owns and runs television stations in San Francisco and Rockford and has a cable channel with Comcast in the Chicago market. TLN has affiliates in 19 states and its programs are carried on PAX and other networks, meaning, in all, some 40 million to 50 million people in the nation and roughly 1.6 million in the Chicago market have access to TLN's programming, Rose said."

  7. Webster, Edith C. (2000-12-28). "Religion hits the air waves". Rockford Register Star. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

     The article notes: "Chicago-based Total Living Network (TLN) launched WCFC, or TV51, this month. The 24-hour, low-powered station airs nationally syndicated Christian shows and local programming blocks on Saturday night and Tuesday afternoon. ... Christian Communications of Chicagoland has been in business since 1976. Four years ago, the $120 million sale of its TV38 helped launch TLN. In August, TLN headed a coalition of clergy, educators and youth organizations behind Operation 10, a major campaign to give 100,000 book covers, folders and posters to Chicago students at the start of the school year."

  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Total Living Network to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 09:18, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hog Farm _Talk 15:49, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

• Keep Sources shared by Cunard establish notability NemesisAT (talk) 11:25, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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