Talk:WTHR

message: Clearly this was produced, but does anybody know if it was used? I've lived in the Indy market my entir elife and have no recollection of this jingle. Lambertman 16:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: http://youtube.com/watch?v=POTL4aAGpfM  I undid your edit.  Obviously the campaign did exist.  I'd side with the original editor here, unless you can show that they didn't bring it back in 91.  -- JTHolla! 16:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  How exactly would one prove a negative, and since the original editor provided no source, what makes him/her automatically more credible than me? And I never said the campaign didn't exist. My original comment above proves this.Lambertman (talk) 16:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, you have waited 11 months to bring this up again.  Why did you edit 91 out in the first place, and why do it now?  -- JTHolla! 16:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I edited it out because I believe it to be wrong. The period of time I waited to do so is not relevant. I've been watching WTHR for over 20 years, and I'm the type of person who remembers image campaigns. That said, the first time I ever heard any of the " *channel* loves you" campaigns was on an internet video taken from another market. I have asked the original author to return to this discussion, and maybe he'll be able to provide proof this was actually used on-air in 1991. If he can't/doesn't, then it's exactly the kind of unverifiable info that Wiki frowns upon  Lambertman (talk) 19:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would say that your personal recolection as to whether the campaign existed or not is not enough to derail an edit that has been part of the article for awhile now.  I would side on keeping it until the original editor could come in and verify the information.  It is unlikely he just pulled 1991 out of a hat.  -- JTHolla! 13:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "channel 13 loves you" 

message: That b-word, if it was used by only the entire station staff or not.  No one can say that on the air against the city. - Despite Channel 13 has so much of a larger local news operation, they should had taken that phrase off, sooner. - Are they now on the air?
--4.188.66.33 20:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: I have never heard of that phrase with a cuss word from Channel 13, if true.=

message: This date is incorrect, as WLWI first signed on the air on October 30, 1957.
Historiccolumbus 18:29, 19 March 2007
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gInKIMECXSI&NR=1  This promo, which ran on WTHR for a few months, says September 2nd as the date.  We'll roll with what the station says, unless another source is available.  -- JTHolla! 16:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The station signed on September 2, 1957 as ABC affiliate WLWI

message: Today, WTHR consistently dominates every news timeslot.  WISH has been a close second except at 11PM where CBS has helped WISH move ahead. WTHR is also one of NBC's five strongest affiliates for primetime and news programming, ranking up with KUSA-TV in Denver and KSDK in St. Louis. This led to speculation that NBC Universal could buy the station from the Wolfe family and become NBC's first O&O in Indiana and change to "NBC 13".  However, NBC Universal recently decided that it only wants to own stations located in larger markets, selling four owned-and-operated stations in several mid-sized markets to Media General. The most likely purchaser for WTHR is thought to be the Gannett Company, which owns KUSA-TV.  
It should be noted, however, that the Wolfe family tends to own businesses for the long-term.  Wolfe family businesses are profitable and carry very little debt, thus there is little incentive to sell.  The Wolfe family controlled BancOhio Corporation, once Ohio's largest bank holding company, for nearly 70 years.  The Wolfes also controlled The Ohio Company, once Ohio's largest brokerage, for nearly as long.  The Wolfes have owned The Columbus Dispatch since the late 1800s and have been in the broadcasting business since the 1920s.  The Wolfe family's last remaining interests are in the media and in real estate, thus it is highly unlikely that they are actively looking for buyers for WTHR.
(Aeverine Frathleen Nieves 10:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTHR Today 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Wthr indianapolis.jpg

message: Jennie Renevich has been given the job of Weekend Evening Anchor.  Took her from reporter and moved her to the anchor section.
Emily Longnecker will join the team this month as a new reporter.  Added her name.
Alphabetized the anchors.  -JT 16:12, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few anchor/reporter changes 

message: The following is unsourced information:
*When WTHR swapped affiliations with WRTV in 1979, its final closedown as an ABC affiliate went in an unusual way than its past sign-offs. Two years before, ABC awarded WTHR a cup in honor of its 20-year affiliation with the network.  A rifle attached to a camera shot through the cup.  The next day was its first day as an NBC affiliate, and the station played the NBC chimes during its first startup as an NBC affiliate. 
*Late night talk show host David Letterman was a weatherman for the station in the 1970s.
*Longtime WTHR Chief Meteorologist Bob Gregory, now retired, has a son named Kevin, who currently is the chief meteorologist at competitor WRTV.
*Three of WTHR's weekday evening anchors, John Stehr (5, 6 & 11pm), Anne Marie Tiernon (5:30 & 6pm) and Scott Swan (Noon and 5:30pm), all previously worked at competitor WISH-TV. Swan and Tiernon were once colleagues at WISH-TV, while Stehr was previously a reporter before moving to CBS as a correspondent.
* Prior to joining WTHR, Jeremy Brilliant was a reporter/anchor at WRTV. He met his wife Jennifer Carmack at the station. Carmack is still a reporter at RTV 6.
* WTHR is the largest NBC affiliate in terms of market size to not have a NBC WeatherPlus digital subchannel; likely due to the fact it operates the SkyTrak Weather Network.
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 04:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

message: A while ago, User:Deconstructhis significantly trimmed the alumni section of the article, and left an edit summary explaining the rationale.  This is something both he and I do on TV network pages.  Following is the full rationale with policy and discussion links that explains why all people on the list need to be blue-linked or have a reliable source:
:This (removal of redlinked or unlinked people from alumni lists without reliable source support) is the current consensus procedure, based on discussions at WP:WikiProject Television Stations and at the Village Pump. The rationales are as follows:
:#Most importantly, per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information."  As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.  
:#Secondarily, per WP:V, we cannot include information that is not verifiable and sourced.  I'm not certain how it would even be possible to source this information.
:#Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.
:All of the people with their own pages are notable enough to appear on this list.  However, if you look at pages about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable.  Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of info, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher).
Thus, I have reverted the most recent addition to the list.  Qwyrxian (talk) 01:23, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni section 

message: The Digital television table appears in this article with no column-headers and no data in most fields. The "nothingness" in the left-most columns extends for several pages, causing the section below it to be compressed into the narrow right-most column of the table. It seems unnecessarily difficult to read (using IE9). I'm an expert on neither formatting nor wiki guidelines, but wonder if this is the way the table was intended to be displayed or if it should be updated. Thanks. ZouBEini (talk) 05:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital television table 

message: Today I set up a new subsection on awards & honors, adding info on WTHR's multiple Edward R. Murrow awards from the RTNDA. While obviously it's a fine line to walk and not get into WP:Peaock territory (ironic since they're an NBC station lol), I do feel since the Murrows are national awards along the same lines as a Peabody and not something like a regional Emmy or some state broadcaster association award that they should be noteworthy enough. What say you folks? Sector001 (talk) 16:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards & Honors 

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