Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georgia Tech Cable Network

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep and a Comment. If the channel list is really a big problem, it can easily be removed. As to the notability, I am of the opinion that GTCN falls into the same approximate notability as, say, WREK, the campus radio station. I am pretty sure that GTCN has one of the largest channel lineups of college cable networks in the United States. However, I am at a conference this weekend and will not have time to thoroughly research GTCN's notability for several days. Any in-depth work on that by someone else would be appreciated. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 06:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Even if it has the "largest channel lineup" it still only serves a campus of a college, maybe a mile or two, if that. Also, it wouldn't fall under the same notabilty as radio station WREK, as the notability for radio stations is a FCC license. If I am not mistaken, cable companies stopped being licensed back in the 90s by the FCC. - NeutralHomer • Talk • April 16, 2009 @ 06:47
    • Well of course cable networks are not radio stations, and they have different standards; I was going for a metaphor here. But purely in terms of audience, they both serve a relatively large number of people. Not as many as, say, Comcast, but they do have their claims to notability. For example, they carry a statistically significant number of international channels. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:30, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • And I don't know if this is important or not, but this source: Johnson, Brent (2000-10-20). "Tuning Tech TV on GTCN".
      The Technique. Retrieved 2004-04-16. states: [GTCN-created program] "Phat Video has been awarded third place in Overall Music Oriented Programming by the National Association of College Broadcasting" —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 07:40, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep Aside from what Disavian has mentioned, I have also found that GTCN has won a number of Telly Awards for its original programming (as, in addition to being a campus cable provider it also has a handful of "local access"-type channels that it manages its own programming for). A list of the awards won in 2008 are here. I haven't searched for previous years. Additionally, I have also found an article that talks a bit about the history and operation of the network, which can be accessed here. I post these here so that either I or someone else may access them later to use them to improve the article. I may or may not get around to it myself, as I have only been able to edit sporadically in recent months. LaMenta3 (talk) 07:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Important or not, remove the lineup. Nobody cares that Tech students watch SpikeTV on channel 43. Mandsford (talk) 13:15, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Comment GTCN is notable in that it is a full broadcasting system, albeit available only to the Georgia Tech Community, but this does not negate its importance to people who are researching or are interested in such systems or amenities that the school provides. I suggest that the article be kept. Centrisian (talk) 19:54, 16 April 2009 (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.