Talk:WKBW-TV

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WKBW Sign-Offs[edit]

I live near Buffalo. About a year or two ago WKBW stopped listing "Off the Air" on it's listings. I finally was able to check this for myself. WKBW is now a 24-Hour Station.

Turn Off News 7[edit]

I recently got back from Buffalo and was interested to see on the NFTA buses, there was an ad stating 'turn of News 7'. I'm curious why nothing involving any sort of controversy is mentioned in this article.Dtheweather9 (talk) 13:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Financial Difficulties & Infomericals[edit]

I've removed this section (again); simply put, nothing in this section is verifiable as per WP:V. If there are verifiable, independent, third-party sources for information on this, then by all means, please put them in and cite them in a way consistent with Wikipedia policy.

The local labor union representing the station's employees is not an independent third-party source of information; the gripes may be legitimate, but this isn't a place to promote them (or, for that matter, to rail against them). Wikipedia is a neutral territory. Amnewsboy (talk) 05:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eyewitness News Revival[edit]

There are no sorces saying 7 News is testing a revival of Eyewitness News, so i'm deleting that belief 76.180.202.147 (talk) 20:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material[edit]

Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

WP:NOT tells us, 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.
As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
WP:NLIST tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles 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 names, 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). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 01:31, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notable on-air staff and titles/slogans[edit]

Hello, I have removed the staff and former staff that is/was not notable. In order for lists of people be included, they must meet the criteria listed at WP:LISTPEOPLE. This isn't the first station article this has been discussed on, and articles have been protected to prevent these additions, or the editors in question blocked when they persistently continue to reinsert inappropriate material. If a name is included in the article in this way, it has to show that it's relevant to the subject by meeting WP:LISTPEOPLE. Just because a station lists its employees doesn't mean Wikipedia needs to as well, and other station articles needing similar cleanup doesn't mean this one doesn't need to be cleaned up, because whenever it's actually discussed on a station article, the end result is the same; the names that don't meet WP:LISTPEOPLE are removed. Wikipedia is also not a directory. A list of previous discussions are listed below:

As for the titles/slogans, they were all unsourced, except for two. Even those are a questionable source, as I don't see YouTube as a reliable source. Thanks, Corkythehornetfan (Talk) 22:47, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Current station logo[edit]

@LooneyTraceYT: Hi there! I've reverted your latest edits as I can't find any evidence to back your claim that the plain-7 logo is the "actual on-air logo" yet. I live in the Toronto area across the border from Buffalo so I get the channel on cable, and while I'm aware the new plain-7 logo is appearing on their website, I haven't seen that logo on the actual TV channel, or on their free-to-watch news stream feed; in both places they are still using the circle-7. They're also still using the circle-7 logo on their Twitter and Facebook profiles.

I'm aware of one discussion board where this has been talked about but the posters seem to be primarily outside the Buffalo area discussing purely based on the website, and even later on some people acknowledge based on the live feed they haven't actually made a switch on-air yet.

As I've noted before, it's certainly possible the use of the new logo on their website is a precursor to a relaunch on the TV channel, but that is not clear yet. In the meantime, since the article is primarily about the TV station (not its website), the infobox should reflect the logo being used on-air. — stickguy (:^›)— || talk || 23:47, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's official. They redid it all. New name for the newscasts, and a new logo. But we took care of that already. Happy New Year! BubbaDaAmogus (talk) 17:14, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]