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Likely WP:HOAX article about a purported television station. If this does exist at all, it certainly isn't as a broadcast television station in Toronto, as this article claims -- spoiler alert, I live in Toronto, so I know what television stations we have here, and since the Canadian Screen Awards are happening this week I've literally been hitting up Playback and Broadcast Dialogue and TVeh and the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail 10 to 15 times a day all week, so I would know of any announcements about brand new television stations that launched just yesterday. And while there is a website provided as an EL, it looks for all the world like just a bunch of AI-generated images arrayed on a page to resemble a television schedule, while absolutely nothing on it actually verifies anything whatsoever about it broadcasting over the air or being based in Toronto. (Also, if it's based in Toronto, then why did the creator add the Montreal TV navbox at the bottom of the page?) And even a Google search completely failed to turn up any other coverage in other publications besides the ones I've already been looking at, either, so I can't even verify that this is just an inaccurate article about a real thing that exists somewhere other than Toronto (or Montreal) either. Bearcat (talk) 15:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Interesting. This does appear to be some sort of hoax. The external link is to a web site, orisontv.com, which displays a very limited amount of information, less than would be expected for a real TV station. An ICANN Whois lookup of orisontv.com shows that the domain does exist (but we knew it did, because it displays the web page), and that it is registered to a mailing address in Reykjavik, but some of the details are redacted. It appears that technical services are being provided by Amazon. It isn't in Toronto. There is probably some sort of hoax of which attempting to create a false Wikipedia article is part of the fake. I think that I have enough information to address the question here at MFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:56, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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