Broadcasting naming conventions have their own guideline page, which covers the vast majority of articles in the project scope.
While television channel and station articles, like all articles on Wikipedia, must meet the general notability guideline, in general, any television station which produces original content and is licensed by a national government (e.g., the FCC in the United States) is presumed to be notable. Details can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Broadcast media.
A minor translator station which only relays the national signal of their network or an associated regional station without local deviation (for instance, a translator of the Trinity Broadcasting Network) should be redirected to the service it rebroadcasts. These are also used by television stations in geographically large markets, such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have population centers far from the reach of the main transmitters.
In the latter case, if the service rebroadcast is another local station, there should be a list, such as that at KSL-TV#Translators. As with all lists, translator lists should avoid excessive detail.
...[A] station which was formerly an originating station in its own right, but which now exists only as a rebroadcaster of another service, is treated as an originating station because of its history.
If a translator has a history of carrying different networks and of different uses, it may merit an article. This also applies to full-service satellite stations, such as KRMZ, that once were standalone television stations but now rebroadcast other services.
A good television station or channel article should include the following:
There are two types of infoboxes that articles in the project use.
{{ Infobox television station}} is generally used in North American countries, as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and some other countries. The articles that use this infobox:
{{ Infobox television channel}} is used by articles on networks of stations, pay television services around the world, and services that are nationally or regionally broadcast on digital terrestrial television platforms, such as Freeview in the United Kingdom. The articles that use this infobox:
Consult the infobox pages for documentation and examples.
There are a wide variety of categories in the project scope, with most being generally classifiable as one of the following:
Categories should be defining characteristics for the articles placed into them.
Some groupings formerly handled by categories, particularly stations by virtual and physical channel number, are now handled in lists, such as Channel 12 virtual TV stations in Mexico and Channel 26 TV stations in Canada.
Wikipedia allows images to be used in articles, but in order to maintain a freely-distributed online encyclopedia, the following rules must be observed:
In addition to hundreds of media market navigational boxes, TVS includes several utility templates, some shared with WikiProject Radio Stations.
The official list of stub templates and categories is maintained by WP:WSS/ST. Some of the most important stubs are mentioned below.
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The tag {{ WikiProject Television}} should be added to the top of the talk page of all articles maintained by this task force. This template can be used for making assessments of the articles for the television stations task force and WikiProject Television.
{{WikiProject Television |class= |importance= |television-stations=yes |television-stations-importance=}}
Broadcasting naming conventions have their own guideline page, which covers the vast majority of articles in the project scope.
While television channel and station articles, like all articles on Wikipedia, must meet the general notability guideline, in general, any television station which produces original content and is licensed by a national government (e.g., the FCC in the United States) is presumed to be notable. Details can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Broadcast media.
A minor translator station which only relays the national signal of their network or an associated regional station without local deviation (for instance, a translator of the Trinity Broadcasting Network) should be redirected to the service it rebroadcasts. These are also used by television stations in geographically large markets, such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have population centers far from the reach of the main transmitters.
In the latter case, if the service rebroadcast is another local station, there should be a list, such as that at KSL-TV#Translators. As with all lists, translator lists should avoid excessive detail.
...[A] station which was formerly an originating station in its own right, but which now exists only as a rebroadcaster of another service, is treated as an originating station because of its history.
If a translator has a history of carrying different networks and of different uses, it may merit an article. This also applies to full-service satellite stations, such as KRMZ, that once were standalone television stations but now rebroadcast other services.
A good television station or channel article should include the following:
There are two types of infoboxes that articles in the project use.
{{ Infobox television station}} is generally used in North American countries, as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and some other countries. The articles that use this infobox:
{{ Infobox television channel}} is used by articles on networks of stations, pay television services around the world, and services that are nationally or regionally broadcast on digital terrestrial television platforms, such as Freeview in the United Kingdom. The articles that use this infobox:
Consult the infobox pages for documentation and examples.
There are a wide variety of categories in the project scope, with most being generally classifiable as one of the following:
Categories should be defining characteristics for the articles placed into them.
Some groupings formerly handled by categories, particularly stations by virtual and physical channel number, are now handled in lists, such as Channel 12 virtual TV stations in Mexico and Channel 26 TV stations in Canada.
Wikipedia allows images to be used in articles, but in order to maintain a freely-distributed online encyclopedia, the following rules must be observed:
In addition to hundreds of media market navigational boxes, TVS includes several utility templates, some shared with WikiProject Radio Stations.
The official list of stub templates and categories is maintained by WP:WSS/ST. Some of the most important stubs are mentioned below.
![]() | Television: Stations Unassessed | |||||||||
|
The tag {{ WikiProject Television}} should be added to the top of the talk page of all articles maintained by this task force. This template can be used for making assessments of the articles for the television stations task force and WikiProject Television.
{{WikiProject Television |class= |importance= |television-stations=yes |television-stations-importance=}}