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Hiya, I'm a 18-year Wikipedia veteran with more than 750 DYKs. I speak and write Spanish pretty well and have done copyediting and article writing based on Spanish-language sources. In addition, I'm one of Wikipedia's largest users of Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive, and ProQuest, ranking in the top 6 for links added to each service.
ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated from 1977 to 1985, mostly owned by Oak Industries. ON TV represented the equipment manufacturer's foray into the communications industry. Subscribers paid money to rent a decoder box and receive monthly service, which was broadcast in scrambled form over eight UHF television stations and featured movies (including softcore pornography for an extra charge), sports, concerts, and special events. While ON TV operated the most successful STV service in the United States, in Los Angeles, the business dwindled after 1982 due to the rise of cable television, signal piracy, and a poor economy, as well as several content disputes with individual stations over airtime and adult programming. The last ON TV operation, in Chicago, closed in 1985; the eight stations each reverted to commercial programming, three of them becoming Spanish-language stations.
First Coast News is the newsroom of television stations WTLV (channel 12) and WJXX (channel 25), the NBC and ABC affiliates in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is owned with the stations by Tegna Inc. The First Coast News brand was first used by the stations on April 27, 2000, in the wake of Gannett's acquisition of WJXX the month before and consequent expansion of what had primarily been WTLV's news department.
On January 1, 1989, six television stations in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, markets, exchanged network affiliations. This event, dubbed the "Big Switch", affected some three million TV viewers. The switch was initiated when the NBC network bought WTVJ, an affiliate of rival network CBS. CBS opted not to affiliate with NBC's old Miami affiliate, WSVN, and bought WCIX, an independent station whose signal for technical reasons could not adequately reach the northern portions of the Miami market. To solve that problem, CBS induced an affiliation switch to the north in West Palm Beach from WTVX to WPEC, previously an ABC outlet, which had a better signal in the same area. Because of its location in slower-growing Fort Pierce, ABC spurned WTVX in favor of the under-construction WPBF in West Palm Beach, whose owners also agreed to pay the network in the first ever reverse compensation affiliation in American television. The impacts on each station were substantial. WTVJ and WFOR-TV (WCIX after a 1995 channel change) remain under network ownership. WSVN, which obtained the Fox affiliation, adopted a news-intensive format and became nationally influential for its style of "if it bleeds, it leads" journalism. WPBF had to ramp up quickly to establish a previously unforeseen local news department in time for sign-on. Left to become an independent, WTVX's value declined significantly, and its existing news department closed after eight months.
Aside from my DYKs, I maintain articles on broadcasting topics in Mexico, including List of television stations in Mexico and its dependent state lists, which were dramatically rearchitectured in 2016. I also produce short descriptions.
As of March 2025, I am paid by Arizona State University for editing work related to the university's Wikipedia presence. Any edits to pages related to ASU from this point forward are isolated under User:Melted Brie.
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