User talk:Mlaffs/Archives/2015/February

KVEX-LP

You may remember KVEX-LP from this post on my talk page. Well, the FCC finally got their act togoether. Even though KVEX-LP has been on the air since January 12, it only just received it's License to Cover on February 2. The FCC is getting very slow anymore. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

TV stations

The only potential references I can think of for Canadian TV stations, at least in the comprehensive sense, are either the Canadian Communications Foundation or the station profiles at Rec Networks — both of which, in each case, should already be available as external links on each station's article if you need them. Unfortunately, the Industry Canada database, comprehensive though it is, is inconvenient (i.e. slooooooooooow) and not structured in a way that makes it possible for us to use it as a reference link the way we can for the FCC pages (i.e. search data is handled entirely as a hidden internal process, so even the search result doesn't produce a direct URL that we could link in a Wikipedia template.) Bearcat (talk) 05:31, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The FCC does have links to the Canadian TV and Radio stations in their database. For example, these are the stations listed for Ontario.

Now these listings do not have as much information as US stations. For example, this is FCC listing for CIII-TV. Notice there is digital information, transmitter coords, tower height and power, but very little else. In contrast, this is the FCC listing for WUSA-TV. Of course, much more information, linkage, and other offsite info.

This might not be the best site, since a comprehensive FCC-like Canadian website isn't available, but it would be enough to source some information like tower height, power, transmitter coords and in some cases ownership. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:05, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, indeed the CRTC doesn't maintain a technical database for radio or television broadcasting — you could theoretically search on their site for each individual television station and extract the technical data from a license renewal document, but that would suck even worse than the other options already do. There used to be some other options in the past — most of what we started with for Canadian radio and television stations was sourced to either RadioStationWorld or Nelson Media, both of which unfortunately are long gone now. Bearcat (talk) 06:13, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I was meaning for just technical data (tower height, power, coords) you could use the FCC website. Being a US Federal Government website, it would instantly be considered a reliable source. Beyond that, RecNet is pretty much the only comprehensive (and easy-to-use) database for Canadian stations. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 07:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)