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Did you know... that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
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... that an attempt to sell Wyoming television station KFNB dragged on for more than three years and ended with the station off the air for nine months? Source:
[1],
[2],
[3]
ALT1:... that KFNB in
Casper, Wyoming, is named for a prospective owner whose purchase attempt ended in default and the television station going off the air for nine months? Source: (same as above)
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. The copied text has been 5x expanded in this article, satisfying
Rule A5. I'm afraid I don't find either of the hooks so hooky, and am unable to find hook facts from ALT1 about the name and the nine months in the article. QPQ done.
Yoninah (
talk)
18:14, 12 July 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Yoninah: Added a mention of the 9 months, but it does get to be kinda mathy and a bit of a dashed line (the call letter change came in the middle of the sale and there's no other thing they could possibly stand for). I do have a potential ALT2 candidate?
Raymie (
t •
c)
22:28, 12 July 2020 (UTC)reply
ALT2: ... that while management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
[4]
A fact from KFNB appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 July 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
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United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that an attempt to sell Wyoming television station KFNB dragged on for more than three years and ended with the station off the air for nine months? Source:
[1],
[2],
[3]
ALT1:... that KFNB in
Casper, Wyoming, is named for a prospective owner whose purchase attempt ended in default and the television station going off the air for nine months? Source: (same as above)
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. The copied text has been 5x expanded in this article, satisfying
Rule A5. I'm afraid I don't find either of the hooks so hooky, and am unable to find hook facts from ALT1 about the name and the nine months in the article. QPQ done.
Yoninah (
talk)
18:14, 12 July 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Yoninah: Added a mention of the 9 months, but it does get to be kinda mathy and a bit of a dashed line (the call letter change came in the middle of the sale and there's no other thing they could possibly stand for). I do have a potential ALT2 candidate?
Raymie (
t •
c)
22:28, 12 July 2020 (UTC)reply
ALT2: ... that while management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
[4]