Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CKUC-FM

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The result was delete. As mentioned, 'no prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can actually find some evidence of it being in operation'. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:18, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CKUC-FM

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Radio station whose operational status is entirely unverifiable. Although the owner was granted a CRTC license in 2014, I've been able to find not a hint of verification anywhere that it ever actually started broadcasting: not a shred of reliable source coverage, no website, not even a listing in the town's local business directory. And we have a conflict between the two initial sources, Canadian Radio News (a far-from-reliable social media feed that posts radio and television startup and shutdown announcements) and RECNetworks, about what the station's call sign even is or was -- so I went to the definitive source for resolving such a conflict, Industry Canada's Spectrum Management database, and neither of the claimed call signs is assigned to any radio station at all. My working assumption right now is that the station didn't manage to ever actually make it to air at all -- a common problem which is precisely why WP:NMEDIA was tightened up a few years ago to require that we wait until a new radio station is verifiably on the air before we start the article. So no prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can actually find some evidence of it being in operation that I'm somehow missing, but in the meantime if we can't verify it we can't keep it. Bearcat (talk) 02:01, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 02:12, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 02:12, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nightfury 08:35, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Agree. It's hard to know whether or not a radio station is broadcasting solely based off of the information in the REC/Industry Canada databases when information about a call sign is present in them. However, when a radio call sign is missing from those databases it's very likely that it's not transmitting. Given that the call sign in the title of the article can't be found in those databases and that the possible other call sign can't be found in the latter, this station is very likely not transmitting under the title call sign and even more likely not transmitting at all. If it is transmitting there's no coverage of that fact in reliable sources. - Vanstrat ⁽⁽🗼⁾⁾ 18:39, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nom; this fails verification and is likely to have never broadcasted. power~enwiki (π, ν) 06:35, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.