Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CHWP-FM

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:11, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CHWP-FM

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Another low-power religious station, for which I can't find any proper verification that it ever actually went on the air. Neither Recnet nor Spectrum Management has a record for any station operating on this frequency in this location, or for any station operating with this call sign anywhere else in Canada either -- and this class of LPFM stations is now exempt from having to have a CRTC license anymore, making it completely impossible for us to verify whether it's actually operating or not. This could be a station that's still in operation as an exempt LP, or it could be a station that was in operation but went defunct, or it could be a station that never actually made it to air at all and had its license expire unbuilt -- we have no reliably sourceable way of finding out, and if we can't verify it we can't keep it. Bearcat (talk) 21:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Apparently, at least in 2009 this call sign was assigned to this station. That said, Industry Canada now shows CHWP as an available call sign (and remember that stations exempt from CRTC licensing are not exempt from Industry Canada authorization, which would be reflected in its database if it were still active — CHWP-FM's present absence from there indicates, at best, a defunct station), and in any event the programming the station was licensed to broadcast is of a type (the same kinds of live broadcasts of church services and other religious ceremonies as, for instance, CFPP-FM and numerous VF stations, all of which have been brought to AfD in recent years) that, with the license exemption, ensures that the presumption of notability for licensed broadcast stations does not come into play. Of course, there's far from the sufficient coverage in reliable sources to satisfy the general notability guideline. Indeed, the complete absence of any mention of "CHWP" on the Canadian Communications Foundation's History of Canadian Broadcasting website may well be quite damning, as that site does include some of these low-power religious stations that they believe did make it on the air — which might indicate CHWP never actually launched, and unlaunched stations are another type of broadcast station with a presumption of non-notability. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:09, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - lack of significant coverage. PhilKnight (talk) 23:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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