Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VF2289

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:40, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

VF2289

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This is one of four VF stations operated by the Iron Ore Company of Canada from a facility north of Labrador City. VF stations do not enjoy the presumption of notability for broadcast stations, particularly if they are a type of station exempt from CRTC licensing. I cannot find any decisions on the CRTC's website regarding these stations, and I'm not having any luck finding any information on what these stations broadcast (they could be rebroadcasters for all I know). I'm not sure these call signs are likely enough search terms to merit a redirect to the owner, but the four stations clearly aren't independently notable and probably never will be, so I'm nominating for deletion instead.

I am also nominating the following related pages, comprising the other three stations alluded to earlier:

All four articles are identical in content but for the call letters and frequency. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:25, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:25, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete/Merge These four stations should be rolled into content on the main company's page as suggested by WP:BROADCAST RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 15:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without merge. Despite the lack of verifiability, the nominator is almost certainly correct that these are rebroadcasters of something or other — it's not at all rare in Canada for small, remote towns with little or no local media (such as mining camps) to have a cluster of low-power transmitters which exist only to rebroadcast television or radio signals from larger markets so that the local residents have access to some form of media and entertainment, and which are licensed to a company or organization in that town rather than to the actual holder of the originating license. Sometimes what service is actually being rebroadcast is sourceable to a CRTC decision, in which case we redirect the call sign to its programming source — but sometimes it isn't, and a standalone article about the rebroadcaster is not warranted just because we can't verify what it's rebroadcasting. There's no value in maintaining content about them in the parent company's main article either — the encyclopedic value would be in knowing what specific originating station was being rebroadcast on that transmitter, not simply documenting that the transmitter exists, so there's no value in listing them in Iron Ore Co.'s article if their existence is all we can say about them. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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