Talk:KNWA-TV

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Contents 1 Why... 2 Article split 3 KFTA has its own article now... 4 Cleanup of Split 5 Errors on page

[edit] Why...

Why is it that the article for KNWA is located on a page called KFTA? This seems a touch strange to me, and I'd be interested to find out why. It seems like a possible mistake. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

KFTA and KNWA are the same station; just so happens that they have 2 transmitters (a la KHBS/KHOG). They just decided to go with KNWA's callsign on air since it stands for Northwest Arkansas. This should be clarified in the article. - Hinto 02:04, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Aha... makes sense now, especially when one confirms the former identities of these stations. Though if they're using KNWA as their on-air identity, it probably ought to be on the page for KNWA. I was a bit confused there, since, when I lived in Rogers in the late 80's and early 90's, the two stations showed the same programming but were still distinct - KPOM 24 and KFAA 51. I remember back when their news program was called "Newsline 24/51" and later "Eyewitness News" before being cancelled entirely in 1992. SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:04, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, I want to say that KPOM had another call-sign before that, but I'll still have to do some digging around for information on that (this was before KFAA existed). KPOM in particular has a very interesting history, but I'll have to relocate my source for that. SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but apparently KNWA is now no more than a satellite station, and KFTA is where the signal originates, so I'd say that's a reason to keep the page at KFTA (for the sake of consistency with articles for other American stations). However, it is awfully confusing that they decided to identify on air as KNWA instead (why did they put the KNWA calls on KFAA and not KPOM?), so I guess it'd be easier to explain the "anomoly" in the branding if this article was located at KNWA.

Agreed in that explaining the anomaly of the branding would be easier if it was located at KNWA. As for being a satellite station, I believe that's always been the case, though as I said earlier, they were identified separately on-air when I lived in that area, but the programming was identical. The only programming difference was the second segment of the old Eyewitness News program, where each station did its own area's local news. KFAA's version originated from Rogers, and KPOM's originated from Fort Smith.

I must admit; I'm totally confused now. I was under the impression that KNWA was in Fay, KFTA was in FSM, and that the station's main operations were in Fayetteville (and KNWA). In the article, it says operations are in Fayetteville, under KFTA. Plus... does the station still go as "Arkansas NBC", or just as KNWA? Amnewsboy 22:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Back when I lived in the area in the late 80's/early 90's, then-KFAA (now KNWA) was always shown on-air as originating from Rogers. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

And according to the FCC database [1], KPOM's old calls were KLMN. Still have no idea when the stations signed on though. - Hinto 15:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure regarding KPOM, though I have reason to believe that KFAA signed on in the fall of 1989. I have a tape that I recorded in August 1990 that showed a station identification that indicated that KFAA was celebrating its first anniversary at that time. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article split

With KFTA in the process of being sold to become the Fox affiliate (though still in the Nexstar galaxy), this article should be moved to KNWA which is now the primary NBC affiliate; a separate article should then be set up for KFTA (or whatever its call letters will change to as a Fox station). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.232.105.208 (talk • contribs) .

It certainly looks like we're moving in that direction. If splitting the article becomes the case, this article should become KNWA-TV, and a new article should be created at KFTA-TV for the new Fox affiliate. Then of course the matter of separating redirects comes in there. The existing KFTA-TV/KNWA-TV article would need to be changed into a disambiguation page in order to indicate that this one article had become two. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KFTA has its own article now...

Someone recently created an article for KFTA-TV. It looks like it needs a little TLC, but I think we can provide that... SchuminWeb (Talk) 14:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup of Split

The section regarding the split is VERY confusing -- especially with the sheer amount of technical data and the tossing around here and there of call letters. There has got to be a better way to do this. --Amnewsboy 08:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors on page

They have Don Elkins as the other Don Elkins who died over twenty years ago, I noticed that IMDB.com has a similar mistake and later fixed it. Also, Matt Turner's link goes to Jeffrey Dahmer (which is kinda funny). Can anyone fix it? I have been having problems editing through Wiki lately. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.204.34.243 (talk) 06:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC).