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[edit] Channel 4 link
The link above is a link to the UK network Channel Four, not to Channel 4 as a TV channel number. Anyone know what to do with the link?? 66.245.28.46 01:58, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Channel 4 link
I removed the wiki link for "channel 4." It wasn't a necessarily related link.
[edit] WRC-TV Current Logo
As someone who has lived in the D.C. area almost all his life, I can tell you that the current logo first went into use either late 1992 or late 1993. Gatorman 17:27, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Precursor
The comment "Jim Henson's late-night precursor to Sesame Street and the Muppet Show, got its start on WRC-TV on May 9, 1955." is inaccurate. Jim Henson's Muppets achieved their first celebrity status by appearing on WRC-TV in the middle-1950s and by appearing in a memorable series of commercials for local coffee brand Wilkins. The Muppets were attuned to adult sensibilities. In the late 1960s, when Sesame Street was first aired, the Muppets were repurposed as gentle creatures who could relate well to children. The Muppet Show came a decade or more after the Muppets were established on Sesame Street. It was targeted to both children and adults. --72.75.101.46 15:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Television schedules
On this page is a television schedule. Television schedules aren't part of this project, as called out in WP:NOT#DIR. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:22, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
- As discussed on your talk page, this is a schedule of newscasts and programs produced by and broadcast on WRC-TV. There is no syndicated programming (ie: Dr. Phil) and network programming (ie: My Name is Earl). These are listed on 95% of all TV station pages (stations that carry newscasts). - NeutralHomer T:C 04:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dates for Willard Scott playing "Bozo the Clown"
According to WRC-TV's official website history here, Scott played Bozo the Clown "1959 to 1964". Accordingly, I have (again) corrected the date "1962" to 1964. For those who believe that WRC-TV is incorrect, what is your source? JGHowes talk - 04:34, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- WRC-TV's website is incorrect. It's been well documented that Scott debuted as Ronald McDonald in 1963, after WRC-TV's Bozo show was cancelled. Scott himself chronicals in his book "America is my Neighborhood" how his debut as Ronald evolved from Bozo after his Bozo show, which was sponsored by a local McDonald's franchise, was cancelled. In fact, the following historical Washington, D.C. kids' TV website lists not only the year but the month Willard Scott's Bozo began and ended here and here. IMDB (The Internet Movie Database) also states that WRC-TV's Bozo show ended in 1962 here. McDonald's official website states that Scott debuted as Ronald in 1963 here as does "The Joy Boys" website here. The case study "A McDonald’s Family Challenges the Status Quo" also states that WRC-TV's Bozo show was cancelled in 1962 here. This information has also long-appeared on Wikipedia's "Ronald McDonald" article. 75.3.83.105 08:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Barbara Harrison Link
The Barbara Harrison link is to a different Barbara Harrison. I don't know how to disambiguate.MattSBrrody 17:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WIKIPEDIA STRIKES AGAIN!
Regarding my edit of 19 Aug 2007, 21:55 GMT, from IP 72.147.17.171
Once again, Wikipedia shows just how accurate and reliable it is. Sinbad is dead! John Siegenthaler killed JFK! And J-Lo's kid sister was a news reporter when she was barely a teeny-bopper! Wikipedia strikes again!
I'm not going to get into a revert war over this point; my only reason for making the edit in the first place was to test how long it would take a wikidiot to revert it. Pretty quick response -- it took only two minutes for Daven200520 to restore the article to its pristine and inaccurate state. However, the two L.Ls you've stated as being the same person are not at all the same. I lived in DC for several years, and personally knew WRC's L.L. (who has returned to TX, where she grew up). They are definitely not the same person.
But you don't have to take my word for it. Check out your article on WNYW's Lynda Lopez, and you'll see that she was born in 1973 ... which means that if she was the same person who worked at WRC starting in 1986, she would have had to have been 13 years old at the time. Even if IMDB, which lists her as having been born in 1971, is correct, this would mean that she was 15 years old when she began working as a reporter at a major network franchise in the nation's capitol. I consider IMDB the more reliable source than Wikipedia, since -- unlike Wikipedia -- they at least try to do some rudimentary fact-checking before inserting content. But still, this would mean that someone barely old enough for high school was doing news stories on Congress, the White House, etc. for a major news market. That's pretty damned impressive!
I'm still trying to decide which is more hilarious; the first idiot who assumed that there's only one Lynda Lopez in the world and linked the two together, or the second idiot who assumed that any new information from an unsigned user is false. Neither bothered to take a quick glance at the dates. Neither bothered to do a quick Google search, which would have revealed (among other things) these links:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-733081.html [confirming WRC's LL's origin in TX and her dates of employment at WRC] http://www.my9ny.com/news/lynda-lopez.html [confirming that WNYW's LL did not grow up anywhere near TX, but instead in NY]
But I'm not going to try to make that decision. Instead, I'm going to tell this story around to every "Wikipedia sucks" site I can, and just add fuel to the growing public awareness that Wikipedia is a pile of crap. I expected the revert to happen, but I also expected that it might take several hours ... but two minutes?! Hilarious!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.147.17.171 (talk) 22:43:15, August 19, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nbc4.jpg
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