Hiya, I'm a 18-year Wikipedia veteran with more than 700 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.
Major works
Featured Articles
WBPX-TV (September 28, 2022 • TFA November 1, 2022)
WSNS-TV (August 19, 2023 • TFA October 4, 2023) ON TV
Some pages may not be at GAN but are intended to be nominated soon.
ON TV (TV network) (9 of 9)
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.
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.
Some of my personal favorites
Windsor Park Mall — one of my first DYKs, about a mall that found very new life
LaMia — extensive work in the wake of the Chapecoense air disaster
KIKX (Arizona) — the station that lost its license because of a hoax
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