Talk:List of television stations in Wisconsin

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Been browsing the other 'lists of television stations in {state}'.

I think we may have a long term problem here, because of several factors:

  • Digital television is a reality. There should probably now be a way to distinguish between analog and digital stations. Current channel lists on Wikipedia (List_of_television_stations_in_California) usually just start at 2 (NTSC analog, VHF) and go up to 69 (NTSC analog, UHF), up in order numerically.
  • As the 'See also' link at the bottom of the Wisconsin page illustrates, there are a LOT of television stations registered in the state. Detail at that level changes regularly, and many people may not care about the low power religious stations. So where is the line drawn? Nationally affiliated networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN, WB, PBS, Univision, etc.), with select independants? All stations? Maintaining all fifty states' 'on air' networks could be a full time job by itself.
  • Stations could be broken up by market, or simply alphabetically by transmitter location. The former allows easier searching, the latter allows a more comprehensive list and prevents editing wars over which station is in which market - although Nielsen does define markets explicitly, I believe. I suspect ordering by channel lowest to highest is rather arbitrary and will only be useful to someone who is already tuned to a channel in a region and wants to know what affiliation it has.
  • How should analog and digital television be separated? Should they be in completely separate lists - separate pages?
  • Would a table format be appropriate for what is being attempted here?

One thing is certain, the current lists on Wikipedia do not acknowledge digital telvision at all. However, I'm not sure how best to attack this. Skybunny 00:44, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

As far as Digital goes, I put a new section at the bottom of List of television stations in Minnesota, but then we also have virtual channel numbering to worry about (and besides, I was only able to do the Twin Cities market). Note, however, that digital channels are generally only broadcast on UHF 15-50.. Tables would be nice, but they are a real bitch to edit. I think a lot of pages with tables on them don't get edited for that reason.. —Mulad 22:42, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)