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The call letter explanation in the infobox states that the call is derived from WJZ in Baltimore. Was there a connection between the two stations that inspired WJZY's call, or were the anonymous editors that added that derivation just making things up? This needs a source, or out it goes. VT hawkeyetalk to me 05:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Upn46logo.gif

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On July 1, 2013, I plan on deleting File:WJZY CW46.png. Is this overkill? Fairly OddParents Freak (Fairlyoddparents1234) T | C Member: WP:TVS 20:53, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sports programming

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I have changed to past tense the statement that the station occasionally carried ACC games that WBTV didn't carry. It was even more often the case that WBTV pre-empted CBS Sports for the ACC, and WJZY (as a UPN or CW affiliate) picked up the CBS game. But until proven otherwise, there's no evidence that Fox has continued that relationship with Raycom (WBTV's parent and the distributor of ACC sports) or the secondary affiliation with CBS. If those do turn out to be the case, the language can be changed back to present tense. 71.75.58.134 (talk) 05:48, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unlock page

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Do not lock pages out of bogus sockpuppetry. Those are NOT TheREALCableGuy's, and you know it, yet you won't listen. Now stop it! 46.246.28.97 (talk) 21:54, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, because an unsigned user needs to make this point over four random IPs grabbed over some kind of proxy. It's locked for good reason. Nate • (chatter) 01:26, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Broadcast resolution

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Appears to be in 1080p - not 720p as described in the article. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 05:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is not; 1080p is impossible to carry over the air over the current television standard, and Fox is in a 720p format nationally. This is definitely a not-in-doubt issue. Nate • (chatter) 17:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Likely your TV is outputting a 1080p signal from your pay-TV source and that's why it shows up that way; the local box is upconverting a 720p signal to 1080p (that's what my TiVo does, for instance). Nate • (chatter) 19:17, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Danke. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 07:32, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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GA review

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Passed. IAWW (talk) 09:37, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:WJZY/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 16:59, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 20:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Happy to review the last of this batch :) IAWW (talk) 20:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sammi Brie, I found several issues with the source-text integrity of this, and I noticed some other issues very uncharacteristic of your nominations (uncited passages and grammar errors) on a quick look through. The lead also looks a bit short compared to the length of the article. Details on the spot checks are below. I note it has been a couple years since you made any major edits to this, and your authorship is lower than normal, so I suspect it has suffered from entropy. Could you clean this up before I do a full review? If you have the time and inclination to do that in the next week, I'll keep this review open, otherwise it may be best to close the review and you can work on it outside of the GA system. IAWW (talk) 20:59, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I am not pinging yet, but I have done the first half of changes needed. Basically coming at this and cleaning pieces up that I'd write differently now. I will note a user who can load pages up with mush with the best of them lives in Charlotte and has been a bit of a headache in some pages in this market. The consummation notice piece may be hard to replace. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 08:09, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I figured out what was salvageable and what wasn't, @It is a wonderful world. I've taken the chance to improve some things to more current spec and add a few things here and there. It still might be a bit bumpier than my typical GAN. Luckily for you, I can snap my fingers and summon 20 more GANs to fill my empty coffers... Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:50, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing stuff up! I am aware of User:Sammi Brie/Pipeline... Are they pretty much all GA ready? Full review incoming IAWW (talk) 16:22, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes @It is a wonderful world and I actually have decided on my next batch of nominees. I've made the first set of GA changes too (up to "pushed up its launch"). Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 18:42, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@It is a wonderful world I will have to get to the TSI issues—this looks like a whale—but did you mean to undo a bunch of my changes with one of your edits (Special:Diff/1324249597)? Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:14, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, I don't know how I didn't get an edit conflict on that. I fixed everything back to how it was before I messed it up. IAWW (talk) 22:01, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy to keep the review open for a while to fix the TSI issues, since this has passed on almost all the other criteria. IAWW (talk) 22:02, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Sammi Brie I reviewed the rest of the criteria and found no other issues. Finally this article can pass! Passing now. IAWW (talk) 09:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose (Criteria 1a, 1b, 4) checkY

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Lead

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Early history

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Nine groups applied for the channel,[4] including Piedmont Crescent Broadcasting Company, which included Harvey Gantt, the mayor of Charlotte, and officials associated with local radio station WPEG and its owner, the Suburban Radio Group: This should use some more varied punctuation or be split into two sentences to make it easier to parse.

which settled with the other applicants: Can "settled" be linked?

Not necessary. I should have put it in suggestions. I think it's just about technical enough to be linked but you can choose whether to link it or not. IAWW (talk) 16:13, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

to do so, it had to divest itself of two Charlotte-market radio stations: I think a short explanation of why would be appropriate here.

Channel 46 pushed up its launch: Is this meant to mean they lauched earlier or later?

I think the way you reworded the last paragraph is very clear and understandable to a less technical reader.

UPN and CW affiliation

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"WMYT" can be linked I think

Sale to Fox Television Stations and switch to Fox

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Several issues raised in the spot check

"time brokerage agreement" can be linked

The deal included a time brokerage agreement: Make it clear we are back to talking about the sale of WJZY to FOX.

The deal included a time brokerage agreement clause that would have had Fox take over the operations of WJZY and WMYT and acquire the duopoly's non-license assets for $8.24 million if the deal was not closed by June 1: Why is this relevant? It seems to be just a clause in a legal agreement that was never carried out.

WCCB announced that it would become the new CW affiliate for the Charlotte market on July 1, the date its Fox affiliation contract ended: I think this would be better in a footnote since it isn't strongly related to WJZY

Sale to Nexstar Media Group

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"2022" season can be linked to "2022 Carolina Panthers season"

News share agreements

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This section seems to treat the WBTV newscasts as more noteworthy than newscasts produced by other stations and hosted on WJZY. I don't see any justification for that. From the perspective of WJZY, it seems that a leased newscast is just a leased newscast? Some specific examples:

  • The first sentence mentions only the WBTV newscasts
  • "The 1990s attempt": Running WBTV newscasts are an "attempt" (I'm not really sure what that means), but the WTVI newscasts were not?

I hope I'm being clear enough here.

The newscasts on WTVI belong in the articles on WBTV and WTVI (neither of which have gotten a rewrite). The point of this being a level-3 header is to distinguish the three separate times WJZY had news produced by WBTV from the newscasts WJZY now produces itself. I've also added some refs about the 1990s attempt. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:34, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@It is a wonderful world: Also pinging since I did changes up through this section. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:34, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I misunderstood something when I wrote the above point. The way you have rewritten this section makes it much clearer and I see no issues now. IAWW (talk) 12:32, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Building a newsroom

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in the form of live webcasts nightly through year's end: Missing verb IAWW (talk) 13:34, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Despite having the highly-viewed Fox primetime lineup as its lead-in, the station continued to lose viewers at 10 p.m. to WAXN and WCCB, while the station's morning news was in fifth place among Charlotte stations and airings of The People's Court on sister station WMYT had slightly better ratings than WJZY's 6 p.m. news: I think this would be better split into two sentences, or at least punctuated better. IAWW (talk) 13:34, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

airings of The People's Court on sister station WMYT had slightly better ratings than WJZY's 6 p.m. news:

  • This is overdetail in my opinion
  • "slightly better ratings" is incorrect. The source says: "WJZY’s 6 p.m. news audience, according to Nielsen, is around 5,700 viewers, only a third of the number of people watching “People’s Court” at that hour on its sister station WMYT (Channel 55)." IAWW (talk) 13:34, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"retreated to the formula it once mocked: chasing fire trucks and standard urban crime": The source says: "chasing fire trucks and illustrating the police scanner." IAWW (talk) 13:34, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

though the station had expanded its local output to 11+1⁄2 hours a day on weekdays: Since WCCB and WJZY are both mentioned in the preceding clause, it's not completely clear what "the station" refers to. IAWW (talk) 13:34, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • I have addressed these issues, too. Most of the issues are in content that predates me rewriting the page, but I am committed to threshing out all the TSI issues in this page and have been reevaluating references all over the page and adjusting page content accordingly. I also dropped one or two references that were no longer necessary. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 22:27, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I'm not surprised as I rarely find major issues with your writing. Do you think this is ready for another spot check yet? IAWW (talk) 22:48, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    If you want to take another stab, yes. I looked at another passage and found yet another thing that was implied but not spelled out in the sourcing. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 23:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Technical information and subchannels

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Sources Magenta clockclock

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Citation numbers based on this version.

Health/formatting (Criterion 2a) checkY

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No issued for GA

Reliability (Criterion 2b) checkY

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Almost all local news and government documents. I see no issues.

Spot check (Criteria 2b, 2c, 2d) checkY

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[11]: checkY

[16b]: Mostly checkY, though I think "admitted" is a bit strong, as the source doesn't support that he ever tried to hide that it was an issue. IAWW (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@It is a wonderful world Reworded here. Also fixed the double [49] issue. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:40, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[24]: checkY

[38]: checkY

[49b]: checkY. There are two [49] refs in a row. You could cut the first one. IAWW (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[50]: checkY

[57]: checkY

I think this spot check is good enough for this to pass on TSI, once the final GA-related issue highlighted by it has been addressed. IAWW (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio (Criterion 2d) checkY

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Earwig finds nothing. No issues found on the spot check.

Scope (Criteria 3a, 3b) checkY

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Covers the station's entire lifespan

Stable (Criterion 5) checkY

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Media checkY

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Tags (Criterion 6a) checkY

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No issues with the tagging or free-use rationales

Captions (Criterion 6b) checkY

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The captions need citations. IAWW (talk) 20:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Decided to drop them altogether. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:13, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions (not needed for GA promotion)

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