Talk:WIS

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[edit] History Cleanup

I took out a LOT of the station's history as noted on here, because it was either unsourced, promotional, or went off on a tangent. Some of it was also superfluous -- every television news program goes through set changes, I'm reasonably sure that every station there covered the "big stories" that were listed, and simply adding newscasts to the lineup is not "historical". I would ask future editors to please be concise. Amnewsboy 17:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response to History Cleanup

Thank you for cleaning up quite a bit of the history. However, while it may be true that every station went through set changes, none of the stations in Columbia has focused on the transition to HDTV (only WIS has made this clear). Also, WIS was the only station to have significant news coverage until the mid-1990s. Unfortunately I cannot cite this here because this is from personal history, but those who have lived in the Columbia metropolitan area would have known that WLTX and WOLO did not have significant news teams and coverage until the mid-1990s, and only until Gannett purchased WLTX in the late 1990s did they begin to expand their news coverage and become a direct competitor. Before then, the station did poorly in terms of coverage (i.e. did not do extensive news coverage like WIS). WOLO still has a very weak news product and does not break in for local breaking news (only weather...and that's indicated with a crawler). Just wanted to give the context instead of just accepting the assumption that "every station there covered the 'big stories'". 152.3.81.78 01:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for response to the edits; it's appreciated (because these things work best when they're talked about!). I think the problem we're drifting into here is that, while they may have done the best job or had the most resources, there are other stations in the market that cover news. By qualifying them in the way you suggest, we're introducing opinion into the article -- WP articles are supposed to remain POV neutral (WP:NPOV). It's very easy to turn this (and many TV station articles) into commercials for the station, and we have to watch how we balance it. Amnewsboy 09:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)