Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KVDO-TV

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was withdrawn by nominator (via blanking) after I presented evidence that the sources supported redirecting it to a related topic rather than keeping it. For disclosure's sake, I was technically a voter in the discussion, but the nominator blanked this discussion and implemented the redirect themself after I suggested that option, so they obviously have no objection to just closing this. Bearcat (talk) 00:53, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

KVDO-TV

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Not notable; no references Mvcg66b3r (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. On a newspapers.com search, I got 1,927 hits for "KVDO Corpus Christi", which means there's more than enough coverage to salvage this with. Bearcat (talk) 22:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Update: On second thought, this should be a redirect to KIII. One of the sources I've now found really clarifies the actual situation much better than the article did, and despite the several years that had passed between the death of KVDO in 1957 and the launch of the still extant KIII in 1964, KIII was essentially a revival of KVDO rather than a genuinely new station — although it took a while, KIII's launch flowed directly out of KVDO's efforts to revive itself on a VHF channel after failing on UHF, and KIII's call sign was even supposed to be KVDO until its owners decided to start fresh with a new call sign. So KVDO should really be treated as a section within the overall history of KIII rather than a standalone topic of its own, because they're ultimately phases within the history of the same TV station rather than distinct TV stations. Bearcat (talk) 23:32, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Bearcat.--Tdl1060 (talk) 22:49, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above 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.