Talk:Wawatay Native Communications Society

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To do to improve[edit]

Overall[edit]

Include Wawatay's governance structure
Who is the current CEO?
Include their physical address and not just their three bureau phone numbers
Include a map showing their service areas
Brief history listing accomplishments from their beginnings in 1974 to today would be good

Radio[edit]

So far the Radio stations and their rebroadcasting/translator stations have been listed. It seems the three stations in Sioux Lookout are the main ones and others repeat those (at least that is my impression). A brief description of each of these main three stations would be good, with a more full article at the individual stations' pages. I don't know if anyone has created any re-directs, but all the rebraodcasting/translator stations should have a re-direct page created for each of them to the station of broadcast origins.

TV[edit]

What would improve this section is a list of TV station(s) (if there are several, that is), channel assignment and power strenghts, programming, etc. If they have cable-TV/satellite-TV channel assignment(s), that would be a good information to have. If they rebroadcast CBC or other media programming for part of the day, that, too, would be a good information. I see that they were making TV shows for IPTN, but other than occasional video production, there seems to be little or no activity in this area CJLippert (talk) 14:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Print[edit]

So far the print media name in English and Oji-cree are there but that is about it. Anything here would be an improvement, such as ~~readership circulation~~, news contents (how much news is local, regional, provincial, national, international; how much advertisement; how much of other news sections, etc.)

Other[edit]

What all technological services do they provide?
Any plans for future expansion?
Any cooperative agreements to provide technological services to non-core NAN Oji-cree communities?
How is this service used in Wahsa Distance Education Centre and their schools?

Please cross out the above tasks and suggestions out as they have been completed in the article. Thanks. CJLippert 16:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Radio[edit]

There are two native community radio undertakings based in Sioux Lookout, CIDE-FM and CKWT-FM. Can anybody clarify which of these two is Wawatay's operation so we can link this article properly to other Wikipedia articles? Bearcat 00:17, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. All of WRN stations are now listed. I don't know how many of these are unique stations and how many are traslator/rebroadcasting stations... but I think I will let those with more Radio savvy take care of that. We still need to work on Wawatay's other media services, though. Just as a side note, I went to WawatayTV's site and went to their children's programming pages. Up pops a fellow in a bear-suit. I laughed because the guy looks just like one of our IT people... Hmmm. Maybe he telecommutes 500+ miles via internet feed. CJLippert 16:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]