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British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for His Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide. Editorial control is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves. It was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943. In 1944, it was managed by Gale Pedrick.

History
Originally known as the Forces Broadcasting Service (FBS), it was initially under the control of the British Army Welfare Service, its first effort, the Middle East Broadcasting Unit, being headquartered in Cairo.

Before and after the end of the Second World War various radio stations were set up, some using the FBS name, others using the name British Forces Network (BFN), but by the early 1960s these had all adopted the BFBS name.

From 1982 until 2020, BFBS formed part of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), a registered charity which is also responsible for the British Defence Film Library, SSVC Cinemas (now BFBS Cinemas), and Combined Services Entertainment (CSE; now BFBS Live Events), providing entertainment for HM Forces around the world. In March 2020, most of the properties under the SSVC umbrella were rebranded under the new BFBS and Forces brandings. On 23 July 2020, SSVC was renamed BFBS. BFBS does not carry commercial advertising.

BFBS Radio
BFBS Radio operates 22 radio stations, broadcast on a combination of local DAB, FM and AM frequencies, online and on digital television. BFBS Radio is a music, news, entertainment and community service providing bespoke content to the global Forces Community with a focus on Forces News and connecting the Forces communities around the world.

Broadcasting
BFBS broadcasts to service personnel and their families and friends worldwide with local radio studios in Belize, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Nepal and operational areas. In addition, BFBS the Forces Station is heard by troops in Ascension Island, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia, Estonia, and the Netherlands, as well as onboard Royal Navy ships at sea via live satellite links, online at BFBS Radio, on Sky channel 0211 in the United Kingdom only, via an Astra 2 transponder and on Freesat channel 786.

From 12 January 2008, BFBS began a trial period of broadcasting nationwide across the UK on DAB, which ran until 31 March 2008. Audience research carried out during the trial concluded that it was successful and broadcasts continued for eight years until 6 March 2017 when the service ceased due to the cost to the charity SSVC.

On 1 April 2013, BFBS began a new 10-year contract for to supply all forces broadcasting service to British troops around the world and expanded its service to UK army bases formerly served by Garrison Radio. BFBS UK base stations now broadcast using DAB in Aldershot, Aldergrove, Blandford, Bovington, Brize Norton, Bulford, Catterick, Colchester, Edinburgh, Fort George, Holywood, Inverness, Lisburn, and Portsmouth.

Programming
Bespoke news bulletins are broadcast every hour, 24 hours a day, utilising content from BBC News, IRN and BFBS's own team of Forces News reporters. The standard bulletin is three minutes long, with extended ten-minute Newsplus programmes on weekdays at 0400, 0700, 1100, 1300 and 1700 UK time. Two-minute-long news and sport headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during breakfast programming. Bulletins are broadcast around the clock on BFBS the Forces Station and BFBS Gurkha Radio, and during BFBS Radio 2's music programming.

Many of the programmes on BFBS Radio 2 are sourced from BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live, including the soap opera The Archers, which was popular in Hong Kong until BFBS Radio ceased broadcasting on 30 June 1997 before the handover to China. BFBS UK is a contemporary hit 'pop' station. It is similar in style to BBC Radio 2, playing current music and chat, as well as regular news bulletins.

On 31 May 2010, BBC Radio 1 teamed up with BFBS to transmit the 10-hour takeover show from Camp Bastion with BFBS presenters and shout outs from the military community. It repeated the link-up in 2011.

In December 2011, the UK's Smooth Radio broadcast its national breakfast show, presented by Simon Bates, from the BFBS studios in Camp Bastion. On 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday, BFBS simulcast a two-hour show with Smooth, presented jointly by Bates and BFBS's Rachel Cochrane, allowing family and friends of serving troops to connect with their loved ones.

BFBS Radio stations
BFBS currently has three main stations: BFBS the Forces Station (each with regional content), BFBS Radio 2 and BFBS Gurkha Network. In addition, there are themed online stations under the BFBS branding; they are Beats, Rewind, Best of British (replaced Unwind), Edge (formerly Dirt) and Samishran.

BFBS Gurkha Network broadcasts on AM and DAB in selected UK locations as well as on FM in the Falkland Islands, Afghanistan, Brunei, Nepal, Belize and on Ops. It provides programmes in Nepali, for the Gurkha units serving with the British Army.

BFBS broadcast in Malta until 25 March 1979, when British forces left the islands. It ceased broadcasts from Berlin on 15 July 1994, following the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the withdrawal of British forces from the city, after 33 years. The BFBS Berlin frequency was given up on 12 December 1994. BFBS broadcast in Hong Kong until 30 June 1997, before Chinese People's Liberation Army replaced British forces in the city. BFBS also broadcast on FM in Belize, from Airport Camp near Belize City. These broadcasts could also be received in eastern parts of Guatemala. It ceased broadcasting in Belize in August 2011. The station re-opened in 2016.

BFBS Television
BFBS Television started in Celle, near Hanover in the then West Germany, on 18 September 1975 from Trenchard Barracks. This used taped broadcasts from the BBC and ITV, flown to Germany from London, which were then rebroadcast using low-power UHF transmitters. Live broadcasts of news and sport began in 1982, using a microwave link between the UK and West Germany, extending as far east as West Berlin.

The BFBS TV service used the 625-line PAL system, used in the UK as well as West Germany. By 1982, it was available at 50 sites throughout northern and central regions of West Germany.

It was known as SSVC Television (Services Sound and Vision Corporation) between 1985 and 1997, when it reverted to the BFBS name. Today it broadcasts live via satellite. DVDs are still sent to forces serving in more remote areas. There was also a service known as Navy TV, which broadcast time-shifted versions of the channel to Royal Navy vessels around the world via military satellite.

Programmes
Most programmes came from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky, including news from BBC News, Sky News and ITN, and sport from BBC Sport and Sky Sports. BFBS also has its own programmes, including the daily news bulletin programme Daily Forces News.

Availability
BFBS Television was broadcast in some areas as a terrestrial service in the clear using low-power transmitters to minimise "overspill" to non-service audiences and protect copyright. Despite this, it could be received in West Berlin, and its listings were carried in local German language magazines. However, the signal was largely confined to the British Sector, reflecting the situation with its American counterpart, AFN TV, whose signal was similarly limited to the American Sector.

Until 1997, it was also widely available in Cyprus, but its signal was encrypted or confined to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Following complaints from local broadcasters like Lumiere TV, which had bought local rights to show English football and other programming, the decision was made to encrypt the signal, starting with Nicosia in April 1997 and ending with Larnaca and Limassol in May 1998. The decision was criticised by MPs in an Early Day Motion. BFBS later ended terrestrial transmissions of its TV channel in Cyprus in January 2009.

However, as a result of card sharing by services personnel, BFBS TV (later BFBS 1) was available to unentitled viewers on the island, along with other channels until 2011, when an illegal pay-TV service was closed down in a joint operation by the Cyprus Police and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance.

In the Falkland Islands, SSVC TV was originally only available to entitled viewers in Mount Pleasant, and when a repeater in Sapper Hill was installed by civilians to relay the signal to Stanley in 1988, it was shut down owing to issues related to broadcasting rights for US programming. It was only on Christmas Eve of that year that the service became available to civilian residents. Initially this consisted of prerecorded programmes brought over on cassette from the UK, meaning that they were shown two weeks after the UK, However, in 1997, the channel, by now rebranded as BFBS, was broadcast via satellite, enabling news and sport to be shown on the same day as they had been shown in the UK, but timeshifted by three to four hours to take account of the time difference. This expanded the civilian terrestrial TV service as part of a digital upgrade, which included BFBS 1 and BFBS 2. BFBS 1 and 2 also became available to civilian audiences in Tristan da Cunha.

British Forces and their families stationed at British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), located at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in Canada, had access to BFBS 1, a limited amount of BFBS 2 and BFBS 3 and Sky News on a 7-hour timeshift from CET. During the day, the television channel that BFBS 2/3 broadcast on, played BFBS Radio 1.

Content and channels
Until 27 March 2013, there were five BFBS Television services:

 * BFBS Uno (launched in September 1975; formerly BFBS Television and SSVC Television) – general programming from chat shows to soap operas, dramas to news, documentaries to sport. Relayed the BBC News Channel overnight and was later replaced by BBC One.
 * BFBS Due (launched in 2001) – a six-hour block of general entertainment and sports programmes shown four times around the clock. Replaced by a variation of BBC Two and merged with BFBS Tre Kids.
 * BFBS Tre Kids (launched in 2008) – children's programming and factual entertainment.
 * BFBS Noc Movies (launched in May 2008) – movie channel with two films a day, each shown six times around the clock.
 * BFBS Uno Day Later (launched in 2008) – time-shifted channel which aired programmes from the previous day later at peak time in Afghanistan.

A combined version of the four main channels, called BFBS Navy African TV, was available on some naval vessels.

In 2005, BFBS also began distributing commercial networks Kiss TV (previously Q), Sky News, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 to certain areas. It also started a movie channel on 2 May 2008, using money that it saved following the Premier League's decision to waive the £250,000 rights fee.

In 2010, BFBS also added Nepali TV (a TV channel in the Nepali language, based in the UK) to its channel line-up for the benefit of Gurkha soldiers. This was replaced by Nepal Television (the state TV broadcaster of Nepal) on 1 March 2016.

Service changes
SSVC was awarded a new ten-year contract by the Ministry of Defence commencing on 1 April 2013. Fewer overseas troop deployments and reduced budgets resulted in a change to the previous TV service.

Since 27 March 2013, BFBS TV has offered timeshifted versions of BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, as well as two channels of its own. BFBS Extra offers a variety of entertainment programming from W (formerly Watch), Dave, Sky One, National Geographic Channel, ITV2, 3 and 4, the History Channel, Sky Atlantic and previously Channel 4 and Channel 5. BFBS Sport carries sport from BT Sport (replacing ESPN), Sky Sports, and Eurosport.

BBC Two carries children's programming from CBBC until the late afternoon or early evening, while BFBS Extra carries programming from CBeebies until the evening. Additionally, the BBC One and ITV feeds are timeshifted to hit peak time in local time zones. Channel 4 and Channel 5 later became available as separate channels in 2019.

Busy TV
On 10 June 2014, SSVC launched Busy TV, a new channel aimed at the British Armed Forces. It was available on BFBS, Sky channel 181 in the United Kingdom only, Virgin Media channel 274 in the United Kingdom, Freeview channel 96, Freesat channel 165, and on satellite Eutelsat 10A (10°E) alongside BFBS the Forces Station and on Astra2 satellite 28°E free-to-air. Its content was a mixture of news reports, entertainment, documentaries and features produced by BFBS. It was independent from the Ministry of Defence and was funded through advertising and sponsorship. On 30 June 2022, due to the loss of its Freeview channel slot, Busy TV permanently ceased operations.

Literature

 * Alan Grace: This Is the British Forces Network. The Story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany. Stroud (1996) ISBN 0-7509-1105-0
 * Alan Grace: The Link With Home. 60 Years of Forces Radio. Chalfont (2003) ISBN 0-9522135-1-6
 * Doreen Taylor: A Microphone and a Frequency. Forty Years of Forces Broadcasting. London (1983) ISBN 0-434-75710-1 and ISBN 0-434-75711-X
 * Oliver Zöllner: BFBS: 'Freund in der Fremde'. British Forces Broadcasting Service (Germany) – der britische Militärrundfunk in Deutschland. Göttingen (1996) [in German] ISBN 3-89588-632-7.
 * Oliver Zöllner: "Forces Broadcasting: A 'Friend' Abroad", in Communications, Vol. 21 (1996), issue 4, pp. 447–466 ISSN 0341-2059.
 * Peter McDonagh: Me and Thirteen Tanks: Tales of a Cold War Freelance Spy. London (2014) ISBN 978-1500307370.
 * Ivor Wynne Jones: BFBS Cyprus: 1948–1998. (1998) ISBN 978-0950335933.

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Kuiseb River

The Kuiseb River is an ephemeral river in western-central Namibia. Its source is in the Khomas Highland west of Windhoek. From there it flows westwards through the Namib-Naukluft National Park and the Namib desert to Walvis Bay. Several settlements of the Topnaar people are on the banks of the lower Kuiseb, for instance Homeb, Sandfontein, Rooibank, and Utuseb. Inflows of the Kuiseb are Gomab, Ojab, Chausib, Gaub, Koam, Nausgomab and Goagos.

The Kuiseb's catchment area (including its tributaries) is estimated to be between 15,500 and 16692 km2. It has a mean run-off of roughly 20 e6m3/a. Friedenau Dam, built in 1972, is on the river. In January 2005, for the first time in years, the Kuiseb flowed to the ocean.

Between Naukluft and Namib the Kuiseb carved out a canyon in a barren and inaccessible area. During World War II the area around the Kuiseb Canyon served as a shelter for Henno Martin and Hermann Korn who moved there to wait the war out. Two books and a film were subsequently published about this 2-year stay; the ruins of their shelter can be visited. On its course through the Namib the Kuiseb is bordered on one side by some of the tallest sand dunes in the world, and on the other by barren rock. The red sand dunes south of the river reach heights over 150 meters. The prevailing winds blow the dunes northward, but their movement is blocked by the river. In the process, so much sand and silt is deposited in the Kuiseb that it only reaches the sea while it is in flood.

In 1907, the area between the Swakop River and the Kuiseb was designated by the German colonial administration as a game reserve. The area is currently part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) is located at Gobabeb on the banks of the river.

Literature

 * The original entry was from the NASA Earth Observatory

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Talk:Western Pomerania

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For older discussions, please check: Talk:Western Pomerania/Archive

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. Jenks24 (talk) 17:01, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Western Pomerania → ? – This article is about only one, arguably not the most important, meaning of the term. It may be better to change the title and place the disambig here, as Western Pomerania is not faithful translation of German Vorpommern. The WP:NC(GN) rules applies here, just as in Pomerelia (formerly Eastern Pomerania). Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 14:04, 25 August 2014 (UTC)  --Relisted. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:43, 16 August 2014 (UTC)  Propositum (talk) 12:19, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

And one more note: the other part of (narrow) Pomerania has the article entitled Farther Pomerania. Thus, the name of this page should be Hither Pomerania. Propositum (talk) 12:38, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

 * The difficulty is that it's not exactly clear what this article is supposed to be *about*, as compared to other articles on Pomerania (it's sort of a problem for the whole topic, given the preponderance of names and terms). It's hard to decide what the appropriate title of an article is if the scope is not clear.Volunteer Marek (talk) 00:40, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

 * What scope ain't clear here? To me it's obvious that this article is the equivalent of the de:Vorpommern article, thus covering the historical Pommern-Wolgast region as well as the region in the context of modern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 09:16, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Szczecin, Police, Wolin or Świnoujście are not part of modern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or for that matter, historical Hither Pommerania.Volunteer Marek (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Have to agree with Marek here, this is not about German term "Vorpommern".--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 22:31, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It is. Do we have to worry about your reading comprehension? The historical Pommern-Wolgast duchy included the aforementioned places. -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 16:19, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Interesting case. The choice to me is between the more common but less precise "Western Pomerania" and the more precise but less common "Hither Pomerania" (Vorpommern is hardly used except for the the current Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).  Sources I perused in Google Books favour "Western" but this usually refers to the current Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.  Controlling for those and looking at the remaining sources, I get a lot of cases where "Western" refers to Pomorze Zachodnie or the whole of the former Province and Duchy of Pomerania, i.e. "narrow Pomerania" or Hither and Further together.  After discounting those, there are still numerous sources using "Western" for only Hither or Swedish Pomerania.  Sourcing using "Hither" seem fewer but it is a far more precise term.  Based on the numerous meanings of "Western" vis-à-vis the clarity of "Hither" and that we have a corresponding article at Farther Pomerania, I support a move.  —  AjaxSmack   21:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * We should use common names here. "Hither Pomerania" is so darned uncommon, it would be hilarious to make this move. We made this decision before btw and I don't see a problem with the current solution. -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 13:22, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't know what "so darned uncommon" means exactly but it shows up in thousands of Google Books results (see some here). I'm not sure why a move would be "hilarious" either.  I have already noted that the current title is more common in sources but that is because "Western Pomerania" is ambiguous and refers to three different places.  "Hither Pomerania" does not suffer this problem and is used widely enough in sources. —  AjaxSmack   06:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you provided any evidence for this claim? "Hither Pomerania" is an old-fashioned expression that is barely used since 1990. It'd be wrong and OR to reinstate this on Wikipedia. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 16:02, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I just did if you note the link in my comment immediately above. I took the Google Books results and limited them to post-1950 sources.  Around half of the hits are sources from the 2000s.  There aren't going to be that many references under any name because the region is just not that commonly written about but use of the term is definitely not OR.
 * On the other hand, as I noted above, most of the search results for "Western Pomerania" are not about this region. For example, I Google Book searched the term post-1950 here.  On the first page of 50 results I get 28 results referring to the current Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state or the Pomeranian areas within it.  I get 12 results referring to the Polish notion of Western Pomerania (Pomorze Zachodnie) and only five results referring to the topic of this article.  Five other results were questionable but some could have referred to this topic.  With a ratio of 28:12:5 or as few as 10% of the hits referring to this topic, it is an understatement then to say that calling this article "Western Pomerania" is highly misleading.  The dab page should be at that name and this page should be moved.
 * This, combined with the number of references that do use "Hither Pomerania" and that "Hither Pomerania" provides precise English term for the region, make it is a reasonable choice here. Please click the links and peruse for yourself. —  AjaxSmack   19:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The thing is, the "Polish region" used to be German. We could just as well rename this article Pommern-Wolgast. It still doesn't make sense, since it's all there already. "Western Pomerania" is the established term, just as "West Pomerania" is used for the voivodeship, but usually in combination with the voivodeship denotion. There hasn't been a problem with this way to handle it and there isn't now. -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 13:03, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Btw, you should check the terminology section in the Pomerania article. As you can see, "Hither Pomerania" isn't a tad more precise either, as it's also used for areas that are now Polish. So a move wouldn't decrease confusion or else. The only acceptable move imho would be moving this page to "Vorpommern", but I'm not too emotional about it. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 13:06, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

The solution is simple. Keep this article and create a new one on Hither Pomerania. If needed, split some content. In either case, reference the definitions of the regions. "John Smith defines Western Pomernaia as... while Hither Pomerania as...". --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:56, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * We already have that article. It is the DABCONCEPT article at Western Pomerania (disambiguation) which already covers the various iterations of "Western Pomerania".  This article (the current Western Pomerania) is only about Hither Pomerania. —  AjaxSmack   00:22, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Which is the reason there isn't anything that needs to changed substantially. -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 09:18, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Vor- / fore
Mention that Vor- must be cognate to English fore (toward the front). Jidanni (talk) 14:45, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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Distribution function (physics)

In molecular kinetic theory in physics, a system's distribution function is a function of seven variables, $$f(t, x,y,z, v_x,v_y,v_z)$$, which gives the number of particles per unit volume in single-particle phase space. It is the number of particles per unit volume having approximately the velocity $$\mathbf{v} = (v_x,v_y,v_z)$$ near the position $$\mathbf{r} = (x,y,z)$$ and time $$t$$. The usual normalization of the distribution function is $$n(\mathbf{r},t) = \int f(\mathbf{r}, \mathbf{v}, t) \,dv_x \,dv_y \,dv_z,$$ $$N(t) = \int n(\mathbf{r}, t) \,dx \,dy \,dz, $$ where N is the total number of particles and n is the number density of particles – the number of particles per unit volume, or the density divided by the mass of individual particles.

A distribution function may be specialised with respect to a particular set of dimensions. E.g. take the quantum mechanical six-dimensional phase space, $$f(x,y,z;p_x,p_y,p_z)$$ and multiply by the total space volume, to give the momentum distribution, i.e. the number of particles in the momentum phase space having approximately the momentum $$(p_x,p_y,p_z)$$.

Particle distribution functions are often used in plasma physics to describe wave–particle interactions and velocity-space instabilities. Distribution functions are also used in fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics and nuclear physics.

The basic distribution function uses the Boltzmann constant $$k$$ and temperature $$T$$ with the number density to modify the normal distribution: $$ f = n\left(\frac{m}{2 \pi kT}\right)^{3/2} \exp\left({-\frac{m(v_x^2 + v_y^2 + v_z^2)}{2kT}}\right). $$

Related distribution functions may allow bulk fluid flow, in which case the velocity origin is shifted, so that the exponent's numerator is $$m((v_x - u_x)^2 + (v_y - u_y)^2 + (v_z - u_z)^2)$$, where $$(u_x, u_y, u_z)$$ is the bulk velocity of the fluid. Distribution functions may also feature non-isotropic temperatures, in which each term in the exponent is divided by a different temperature.

Plasma theories such as magnetohydrodynamics may assume the particles to be in thermodynamic equilibrium. In this case, the distribution function is Maxwellian. This distribution function allows fluid flow and different temperatures in the directions parallel to, and perpendicular to, the local magnetic field. More complex distribution functions may also be used, since plasmas are rarely in thermal equilibrium.

The mathematical analogue of a distribution is a measure; the time evolution of a measure on a phase space is the topic of study in dynamical systems.

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Talk:Utah teapot

Dataset
A really useful ext ln would be one to the actual dataset. If someone finds it before I do, add it! :) Dysprosia 04:05, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * it's in the "history" page, linked to by this article. It moderately large, so I didn't put it in, fearing interminable "wiki is not a source repository" blabber. -- Finlay McWalter 10:57, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

As User:Phil Boswell points out, the teapot is also in the windows pipes screensaver. Details (and screenshot) at -- Finlay McWalter 14:35, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be some mention of the fact that it was originally a whole teaset that was digitized? SteveBaker 00:02, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

The dat and history is available at http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_The_Teapot It's under a gnudoc licence so it could be posted here - I think it should, many of the other early datasets linked to from that site are now 404. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.70.209 (talk) 23:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Coffee pot
Erm, doesn't this have nothing at all to do with the Trojan Room coffee pot? Intrigue 00:06, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * No, nothing to do with the Trojan Room coffee pot, which was finally removed as a link quite some time after the above being posted. --Trevj (talk) 12:06, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Newell teapot
I've heard this teapot referred to in different places as the NEWELL teapot. I'm not sure how to create redirections and soforth, or edit properly, but I think a redirection from this could be useful.

 * Good point. Google confirms that this expression is also used.  I'll make a redirect from that name. Thanks for the info. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 22:06, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was devised by Martin Newell, founder of CADCentre. Martin worked with a member of my family at CADCentre, before creating the famous Teapot at Utah.

 * Martin_Newell_(computer_scientist) Vapourmile (talk) 18:12, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * Any relation to Allan Newell of Carnegie Mellon? And where is Ivan Sutherland in all this?
 * David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 09:12, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Picture?
Where's the picture?

 * In the top right corner. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:11, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * I wonder if maybe we shouldn't use an example without a normal map for the picture, as the original version and most occurances dont use a normal map or shaders, etc. Dgies 04:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Remember that this is an article about the data set and where it came from - not about how that data might or might not be rendered. I don't think we have to reproduce Newell's original rendering style...although if we had a copyright-free image from his original rendering, that would be a neat thing to put there.  Having said that, this is a particularly ugly rendering - the multiple coloured light sources certainly confuse the image and de-clarify the shape of the teapot - which is what we're trying to get across here.  If I have time, I'll render something nicer tonight. SteveBaker 18:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

about the year
The (real) teapot was from 1974, as you can read om http://www.sjbaker.org/teapot/ (you can find many other information there). I think it one should point out that the "graphic" teapot is from 1975, and not the real one. gala.martin

 * The information on physical teapot on that web page (which I wrote BTW) came from Sandra Newell (the wife of the guy who made the original graphic teapot)...so I think 1974 is an accurate date for the physical teapot - but I don't know when the virtual teapot was made - 1975 sounds reasonable but I havn't seen a date for it quoted anywhere. SteveBaker 18:58, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you certain? Is Sandra Newell certain? I can't remember how I was referred to it, but I believe the original brand and design might well be this one below, dating back to 1954 (and so do the people who have made it since 1954).
 * Friesland Porzellan, "Utah Teapot". Vapourmile (talk) 16:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * Tom Sito claims it was 1974. Duncanka12 (talk) 23:27, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Windows
If i'm not wrong this teapot was used as easter egg in a windows screensaver (windows 98?)

 * Yes, the article says "The teapot also occasionally appears in the Pipes screensaver shipped with Microsoft Windows." -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm told (although I don't run Windows myself) that it shows up in that screensaver at 'teatime' - like maybe 4pm or something. SteveBaker 18:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I've only seen it when the joint and pipe types are set to random. The teapot then appears infrequently in place of one of the ball joints. Bizzybody (talk) 18:20, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

The Teapot in the Photo
The teapot in the photograph is not just any old Melitta teapot - it's the one in the computer museum - and it's the actual one that Martin Newell digitized. The teapot was donated by his wife, Sandra - who told me that she misses it. SteveBaker 19:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The image is incorrectly marked up as "the prototype", which it is not, it can be the model, or even the muse, but it was not built for the purpose of proving or improving the digital model. --Ear1grey 09:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point - fixed! (You do know you can fix these kinds of things yourself don't you!) SteveBaker 13:16, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

In 3d editing
There are several basic shapes that the fundementals for editing primatives in 3D editing programs such as spheres, boxes and piramids, but the teapot still remains as one of these primatives even though a teapot as a primative is rarely, if ever, useful. So it would seem that it was left in as an in joke, right there with all the useful tools and shapes is the teapot, which doesn't serve any kind of use at all. I don't know how to word all that into the article, but I can source it all from an industry expert (it comes as a videofile from chad perkins of Lydia fame). JayKeaton 16:48, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's half joke, and half useful. Since it is curved, and capable of self-shadowing and self-reflecting, it is actually a really handy shape for doing quick tests. If you don't see the handle reflected in the body, then you screwed up something in setting up reflections. If it looks flat shaded, you screwed up setting up smoothing, etc. The geometry is just complicated enough to be useful as a test case for a wide range of things, especially where a sphere isn't. It also helps that most people in the field are already familiar with the shape of it, so when seeing an example of a shading model, they know what they are seeing. This is especially helpful when looking at an example of bump mapping because you can't easily tell what aspect of the shading comes from actual geometry, and what aspect comes from the shading alone. It's hard to explain how it is extremely useful, but also just a silly joke and nothing more. Blender's "Suzanne" model serves something of a similar purpose. - Forkazoo 05:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Forkazoo (talk • contribs)

Miscellaneous
I changed API's to APIs in the history. I didn't get a chance to explain my change because FF3 hosed me when I went to type a ' and I fat-fingered enter instead. Maybe "Show preview" should be the wiki default instead of "Save page"? :-) Anyway, I'm not sure APIs is correct or if API can also be plural, but clearly API's is not right. RandyKaelber (talk) 19:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Why keep changing the title of the teapot photo?
User:Aaron1a12 has repeatedly changed the title of the photo of the actual Utah teapot to say that it's not the "real one". I uploaded that photo and I know it's the real teapot because:

 * 1) I have an email from Sandra Newell (Martin Newell's wife) saying that the actual teapot that was digitized was donated to the Boston Computer museum.
 * 2) I saw the teapot on display there and the caption definitely said that it was the original teapot that Newell used.
 * 3) The curator of that museum told me that when that institution closed, the teapot was sent to the Computer History Museum in San Francisco.
 * 4) I asked the curator of that museum for a photo of the teapot - and the one he sent me is the image used in this article.

It's cataloged as "Teapot used for Computer Graphics rendering"...not "Teapot similar to one used for computer graphics rendering".

It's the actual real deal.

SteveBaker (talk) 21:13, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

In joke teapots for nerds
I'm not sure this is relevant so I'm posting here and others can make the decision.

When we (at the BBC) produced the computer-generated art gallery which acts as the front end to the National Disc part of the BBC Domesday Project I included a photograph of a real teapot hanging on the wall of the computer-generated gallery. I don't know how many people got the joke ... some did ... but I'm also wondering whether this was done elsewhere? The equivalent is those recent 3D movies which include a band and ball on elastic string toy ... paddleball (see Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Monsters versus Aliens) in homage to House of Wax. Delverie (talk) 11:03, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Citation for the Teapotahedron claim
Currently, the statement that people call the teapot the "Teapotahedron" is listed as "citation needed." That term is used in Pixar's short (at 1:06) on the walking teapot, which was created by people in the industry for others at SIGGRAPH. Is that sufficient for citation? Duncanka12 (talk) 23:25, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a lot better than nothing. I think we should use it - and hope that something better comes along. SteveBaker (talk) 04:20, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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STL file is not the actual teapot
Just realized the STL within this article is a modified version of the original model. It's been subdivided and given a bottom, shouldn't the original model be showcased instead? Ziggycashmere (talk) 20:42, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Appearance: TADC
As I’m not an editor myself, wanted to share an item for someone to add to the Appearances section. In Episode 2 of The Amazing Digital Circus, “Candy Carrier Chaos!”, multiple Utah teapots can be seen in the space between the world map and the dev space below it. 77.65.111.36 (talk) 20:41, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

ðe utah teapot appears in ðe intro for tpot
to quote ðe bfdi wiki: "At the end of the TPOT intro, TV shows the Utah teapot in reference to the show's acronym. The Utah teapot is a common 3D test model that is an in-joke among the computer graphics community." Jan Eten (talk) 03:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:November 14

Robert Fulton
The notion that he "invented" the steamboat is absurd - the Wikipedia page for Steamboats lists half a dozen people who built working and commercially viable steamboats before Fulton. 104.129.200.111 (talk) 17:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Untitled
Removed: Absolutely trivial, this is not a page for dvd launch dates. --68.199.153.255 02:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2006 - New Adventures of Superman Season 4 DVD Released

Removed:
 * 1698 - first Eddystone Lighthouse is lit

Trivial. Not really a notable lighthouse. --mav 04:23, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Removed:
 * 1832 - First streetcar (a horse-drawn wagon) goes into operation, in New York City.

Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-like pages. --mav 04:23, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Moved:
 * 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal capsizes and sinks after being torpedoed by U 81.

Nope - happened on November 13. --mav
 * A bit late now, but Nope - this indeed happened on 14 November, at 0619hrs in the morning to be precise. The torpedoing happened the day before, at 15.41 hours. Benea (talk) 22:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Moved:
 * 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese heavy cruiser BB- Hiei.

Nope - happened on November 13. --mav

Moved:
 * 1945 - Nuremberg Trials begin: Trials against the main war criminals of World War II start in court room 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.

Nope - happened on November 20. --mav 04:23, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Coventry Bombing
I think it should be noted that James McDade managed to blow himself up by accident whilst bombing the Post Office in Coventry city centre. Possibly by coincidence, it happens to be 34 years after the WWII bombing of Coventry.

Also, the 'Birmingham Six' were also arrested on their way to his funeral. 86.148.84.79 01:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Nicolai Cleve Broch
He is one of Norway's most well-known contemporary actors. I'll get to working on the article when time permits. If his article isn't at DYK-level at the end of the month, I won't object to his removal from the list. Sounds good? decltype (talk) 21:24, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If the level of the biography has risen sufficiently by any date in the future I will not object to it being included. If he is put back now somebody else will almost certainly remove him. Drappel (talk) 21:32, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That may be, but I think inclusion in such a list should be based on the subject's inherent notability, and not the length of the subject's article here. Cleve Broch also has entries on six other wikis. decltype (talk) 21:41, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * All the other wikis have only stub articles, being one of the most well know actors in any country is not an indication of global notability. Drappel (talk) 22:01, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I never said that. All I'm saying is that either the subject is notable, or it isn't, according to the relevant guidelines, and the length of the subject's article on the English Wikipedia doesn't change that fact. For this reason, I see no apparent basis in our policies or guidelines for the statement "... one line biography, which indicates a lack of sufficient notability". However, I do agree that the subject should ideally have a more comprehensive article, so I've simply deleted the old one. From what you said above, I take it you will not object to the article's inclusion here once the article has been improved. Regards, decltype (talk) 02:25, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, the article has been significantly expanded. Please let me know if you have further objections to it being added to this page. Regards, decltype (talk) 05:11, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As the article currently stands with the guidelines for inclusion as they currently stand I personally have no strong objections to inclusion, others may object even now or in the future. To have included it before expansion, even with the promise of expansion would have been to put the cart before the horse. I see that the Norwegian language version is now considerably less complete than the English language version. Drappel (talk) 15:03, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Lech Wałęsa released from prison
1982: I noted that it was mentioned on 12th November that Lech Walesa was released, wich one is correct, the 12th or the 14th? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.178.77 (talk) 12:04, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Hmm...good question. The Lech Wałęsa article states he was released on the 14th, but neither of the sources in the article actually gives this exact date, just that he was released in November. According to and  he was released on the 14th, but according to  and  he was released on the 12th. Googling around can find lots more links supporting both dates, but the sources look better for the 12th. The BBC article seems to have been written at the time, and supports the 12th as the right date. This should be sorted out in the Lech Wałęsa article first. I'll try doing a bit more research, but I suspect the article should be changed to support the 12th. Winston365 (talk) 20:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I've gone through a bunch of newspaper articles and from what I can tell it seems the release papers were signed on the 12th (Friday), he was released on the 13th and arrived back home in Gdańsk on the 14th (Sunday). Some links that support this time frame:     . I'll try to sort through this and work out the best way to fix the Lech Wałęsa article. As for which of these pages should have the entry, I'm not entirely sure which is the best date yet. Winston365 (talk) 00:59, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm beginning to think that the Lech Wałęsa article doesn't really need fixing here. It doesn't actually state he was released on the 14th directly, just that he was incarcerated until the 14th. I suppose this is probably true in a sense. Although this article states he could technically be considered a free man after the signing of the release papers, which seemed to happen on the 12th, in this article there is a direct quote from Wałęsa stating the final order releasing him were signed only minutes before his arrival back home in Gdańsk on the 14th. All of this is of course bordering on WP:SYN, but it seems to me a direct quote from Wałęsa published in a reliable source (the Bangor Daily News) stating he wasn't technically released until the 14th is good enough to establish the 14th as the best date. Initial papers may have been signed on the 12th, and he may have left Arłamów on the 13th, but he was still in custody and evidently there was still paperwork to do before things were finalized. Perhaps a slight rewording could be done to the entry on November 14 but I'm not sure it's necessary. I have removed the event from November 12. Winston365 (talk) 21:47, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Births and Deaths
Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing some celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. See discussions at Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year. Deb (talk) 12:35, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

1990
German–Polish Border Treaty a direct link would be nice — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.70.116 (talk) 20:55, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 November 2020
1990 add link to German–Polish Border Treaty infront of treaty 70.59.70.116 (talk) 17:20, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Danski454 (talk) 17:52, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Please add
Births 1984 - Tony Gaffney, American basketball player

Semi-protected edit request on 4 August 2021
Please add "*1996 – Hiba Nawab, Indian actress" in Births section Source: Hiba Nawab 122.163.180.12 (talk) 20:28, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I also removed the unsourced DOB from her BLP. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:31, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

8416992120
888888 106.200.113.114 (talk) 15:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * What's this about? Deb (talk) 15:37, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2022
In the section regarding births, William III of England is placed here. His birthday is actually November 4th. He needs to be removed to keep the page accurate. ECP863 (talk) 03:23, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The date of birth of November 14 is correct according to the Gregorian calendar. The date of November 4 is according to the Julian calendar. DOY articles use the Gregorian calendar (please see WP:DOYSTYLE). Kiwipete (talk) 07:19, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Opening of english tunnel to passenger 14 november 1994
14 november 1994 Kd942 (talk) 14:19, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * What's an english tunnel? Deb (talk) 14:33, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Deb I think the original commenter means the Chunnel, which first opened to passengers on November 14, 1994.  Bremps  ...  00:43, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I think so too - I was just making the point that their request was unclear. Deb (talk) 12:44, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2023
2002 – Elena Nikolaidi, Turkish-American soprano and educator (b. 1909) Change Turkish to Greek. See the article. (Her name is obviously Greek, too.) 71.105.243.101 (talk) 05:02, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Why were the states of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern merged?
The article doesn't really explain it. Was it just a matter of Vorpommern being "too small" for a separate state after Stettin was transferred to Poland? - DanBishop (talk) 04:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Well, it's mainly because of the former GDR districts (Bezirke). There were only 3 on the territory of MV (Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg). This and the rather close cultural connection of both parts since the early 20th century (as well as the rather sparse population) led to the decision to merge both regions after reunification in 1990. I'll see where and how I can add this. Thanks, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 18:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Architecture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
I intend to create a rough guide on the Architecture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Following several examples of national, regional and urban articles like Architecture in Berlin, Architecture of Denmark, Architecture in Copenhagen and Architecture of Munich. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 17:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Title: Why the German Name?
All German states have official English names (since Britain and the US were two of the occupying Allied powers from 1945 to 1990). This article in English WP should be titled Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the German name of the state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, should be a redirect to that. 91.66.81.175 (talk) 18:25, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * MV wasn't occupied by Britons or Americans. And btw, Schleswig-Holstein isn't called Sleswick-Holsatia here, even though it was. For what I can see, most Regions of Italy also carry their Italian names on Wiki. It shouldn't be a dogma anyway, but common sense. Cheers, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 10:59, 30 June 2014 (UTC)very

 * There is no "dogma" -- Mecklenburg-West Pomerania is the name in virtually all English-language sources, and the German is rare (and perhaps unsightly, though that's a different matter) in English. The example of Schleswig-Holstein is off-topic; that happens to be the English form, and Schleswig-Holsatia is unknown in the English-speaking world. The intro should be recast to show that Mecklenburg-West Pomerania is the standard form in English. The German spelling in WP-EN is really quite jarring.Mason.Jones (talk) 15:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. There does seem to be a consensus here for moving the page to Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Moonraker (talk) 00:37, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

 * The Federal Foreign Office's communication site uses Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in its list of states in English. Good enough for me. 12:38, 7 May 2021 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:7B18:9600:852B:35D:9755:6331 (talk)

 * I disagree. English-language sources are widely split between using the German form, Western Pomerania, West Pomerania and Cispomerania. Given the split between Western and West Pomerania usage, Vorpommern seems the most common usage in English. Moreover, Vorpommern does not translate to Western or West Pomerania (which, by the way, is the region of Poland just over the border). The most literal translation of Vorpommern is Cispomerania, but that is a minority form in English. Waering (talk) 23:31, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Infobox
In the infobox, area, and population of the "city" is mentioned. That cannot be correct.--Bornsommer (talk) 19:20, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

What is the population? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.14.149 (talk) 06:21, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 24 October 2021

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The result of the move request was: Moved back to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a procedural action. The original move was undiscussed and apparently controversial, so I'm restoring status quo ante and inviting to make their case in a formal RM. Dash-or-hyphen is a secondary issue. No such user (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania → Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania – A name for a merger of two places should use a dash, not a hyphen, like the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Minneapolis–Saint Paul. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Comment this change should be non-controversial, however the move in August from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern should have been considered controversial and a possible reversion of that move should be discussed. It does look like English usage prefers the translated name, for example . User:力 (power~enwiki,  π,  ν ) 21:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose Other German states that have been merged use hyphens not dashes; Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt. Ale3353 (talk) 09:21, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * If there are other articles that have improper hyphen usage, they should be renamed too. — BarrelProof (talk) 13:55, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I have opened an RM discussion at Talk:Baden-Württemberg. — BarrelProof (talk) 23:03, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Per power~enwiki, I think this should be moved back to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as that move should have really had an RM. Number   5  7  09:47, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Move back to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Not often seen in its English translation and moved without discussion. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:51, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 21 February 2022

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Changing the length of the dash would require a separate discssion. Favonian (talk) 15:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern → Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – ‘Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’ is used by diplomatic and official sources such as Germany’s official website, and the United States Board on Geographic Names. This is further reinforced by major English Language news sources such as the BBC, The Independent , DW , The New York Times , The Washington Post , Reuters and the Associated Press. This would also be consistent with the Western Pomerania article. Ale3353 (talk) 13:08, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose Our WP:USEENGLISH policy does not mandate we only use English translations, nor does it mandate we only use original language names. Instead, we use the name most common in reliable, English-language sources. A Google news search for "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" germany brings up less than 5,000 results; for "mecklenburg-vorpommern" germany it brings up over 70,000, ranging from Reuters to the Washington Post to Deutsche Welle to Nikkei to sports sites. Ngrams also shows the current name as more commonly used in English language sources. As the nomination notes, the translated version is in no way unreasonable, as it is certainly used, but it's just far less common. For example, the NY Times more frequently uses Vorpommern, although it has used Western Pomerania, while the AP is the other way around.--Yaksar (let's chat) 14:21, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * And separately, strongly oppose the en dash suggestion, which was also recently rejected at Baden-Württemberg, as both a common name issue that would make us grossly inconsistent with reliable sources, inconsistent across other German states, and perhaps most importantly contrary to WP:DASH, given sources clearly treat the subject as a single named entity.--Yaksar (let's chat) 21:21, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Consider an en dash: Shouldn't this construction properly use an en dash? A hyphen seems to create a strange combination "Mecklenburg-Western" that is separate from "Pomerania". See the examples of Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the prior RMs at, Talk:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Football Association, and Talk:North Rhine-Westphalia. — BarrelProof (talk) 14:53, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * As I have mentioned previously on the RM’s you have sited German states use hyphens not dashes; it would also be strange to use a dash when barely any English sources do so. Ale3353 (talk) 15:35, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Most sources (and most people) don't really make a distinction between a hyphen and an en dash. So the same might be said for Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Minneapolis–Saint Paul. But Wikipedia does make such a distinction. — BarrelProof (talk) 03:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Oppose per ngrams - it appears that the current title is the common name. Open to being convinced by a more detailed review of use in reliable sources. BilledMammal (talk) 14:15, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Consider an en dash. Support per Western Pomerania. Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:39, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I know ngrams seems to contradict this but I can’t find that many English sources that use ‘Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’. The only sources I have been able to find are The Irish Times, The New York Times and The Guardian which sometimes use the local spelling but other times use either ‘Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’ or ‘Mecklenburg-West Pomerania’. Speaking of which, almost all English sources that don’t use ‘Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’ use ‘Mecklenburg-West Pomerania’ such as The Guardian (sometimes), The Times , The Economist , The Irish Times (sometimes), Britannica and Columbia of which only the latter two use a dash showing that the hyphen clearly prodominates. Also to add on other sources from around the world that use ‘Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’ include News 24 (South Africa) and The Hindu (India) showing that the name I have proposed for this article also fulfils the WP:GLOBAL criteria. Ale3353 (talk) 16:39, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Definitely tricky to determine, but I would note a number of these sources are republished AP and AFP stories running in a publication, rather than stories from the publication itself.--Yaksar (let's chat) 21:24, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Oppose. More often untranslated than translated. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:20, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Support.
 * If many sources translate to 'Western Pomerania', this makes more sense than 'Vorpommern'.
 * I think Wikipedia needs to be consistent - we call the German states 'states' rather than leaving it untranslated as 'Bundesländer'.
 * We call Nordrhein-Westfalen 'North Rhine-Westphalia'. We call Rheinland-Pfalz 'Rhineland-Palatinate'.
 * We call Sachsen 'Saxony', Niedersachsen 'Lower Saxony'.
 * There's even a case like that of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's, where one part of the name is left untranslated: Sachsen-Anhalt is called 'Saxony-Anhalt' (with the Anhalt left in German).
 * Equally, the fact that Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was previously GDR under Soviet occupation compared to previously FRG states under Allied occupation should not make a difference either. M. Lala-Raykar (talk) 11:58, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi User:EpicChefUK -- our naming policy for English translations can come across as a bit complicated, but ultimately WP:USEENGLISH reflects the basic naming principles of WP:COMMONNAME, which is to use the name most common in English-language reliable sources. Very often that's just the English translation (Eiffel Tower), but it often is not (Arc de Triomphe). Applying a universal standard of "use the English translation" would violate that policy and would mean we don't reflect usage in sources. For a clear-cut example, we use Brittany rather than Bretagne, but we use Loire-Atlantique even though "Loire-Atlantic" would be the English translation, and even though it is not completely unused, because usage shows a clear common version. Because the current name of this page is more common in English sources, the existence of an English version, even a regularly used one, doesn't override that name by virtue of being in English.--Yaksar (let's chat) 17:02, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Oppose. The target has a fascinating history, see here (or list it yourself if it's still there). But the common name in English is clear. No useful opinion on the dash. Andrewa (talk) 14:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

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ISI

ISI or Isi may refer to:

Organizations

 * Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a classical conservative organization focusing on college students
 * Ice Skating Institute, a trade association for ice rinks
 * Indian Standards Institute, former name of the national standards body of India, the Bureau of Indian Standards
 * ISI mark, a product certification mark in India
 * Institute for Scientific Information, part of Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Healthcare & Science business of the Thomson Reuters Corporation)
 * Institute for Scientific Interchange, a theoretical scientific research centre based in Turin, Italy
 * Inter-Services Intelligence, an intelligence agency of Pakistan
 * International Statistical Institute, a professional association of statisticians
 * International Systems Institute, a scientific and educational corporation founded by Béla H. Bánáthy
 * Iron and Steel Institute, precedent organization to the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
 * Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization of a number of Iraqi insurgency groups
 * Integral Satcom Initiative, the European Technology Platform on Satellite Communications
 * Independent Schools Inspectorate, responsible for the inspection of independent schools and private further education colleges in England
 * Integrated Systems, Inc., a former developer of real-time operating systems
 * Image Space Incorporated, an independent video game developer
 * ImageSat International, an Israeli satellite imagery company

Schools and educational institutions

 * Indian Statistical Institute, a public research institute and university in Baranagar, Kolkata, India
 * Indonesian Institute of the Arts, a collective name of arts university in Indonesia:
 * Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar
 * Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta
 * Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta
 * Information Sciences Institute, a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering
 * Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, a subsidiary of the Bangladesh University Grants Commission
 * Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a non-profit educational organization
 * International School Ibadan, a school located on the Campus of the University of Ibadan
 * International School of Iceland, a school located in Garðabær, Iceland, a suburb of the capital city of Reykjavík
 * Islamic School of Irving, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

Science and technology

 * Information Sharing Index, former name of ContactPoint, a government database that held information on all children in England
 * Infrared Spatial Interferometer, an astronomical interferometer array of three telescopes
 * Interstimulus interval, the temporal interval between the offset of one stimulus to the onset of another
 * Intersymbol interference, a form of distortion of a signal in which one symbol interferes with subsequent symbols
 * Instruction Storage Interrupt, Segmentation fault of a PowerPC
 * In-service inspection

Other uses

 * Isi (name), personal name, sometimes an abbreviation of various other names
 * "Isi" (song), 1975 track by Neu! from the album Neu! '75
 * İsi, a village and municipality in Azerbaijan
 * Import substitution industrialization, a trade and economic policy

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United Nations Association of the United States of America

The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) is a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to promoting political and public support for the United Nations among Americans. It is a program of the United Nations Foundation. Its mission includes advocating for greater U.S. leadership at the UN, improving and enhancing the UN system, and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Charter in both the U.S. and globally.

UNA-USA's activities include public outreach, political lobbying, and community organizing. It hosts youth programs, fellowships, and networking events both locally and nationally. Its flagship events include the Global Engagement Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York City and the Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. UNA-USA is led by an executive director and governed by a thirty-member national council that meets semi-annually.

Along with its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, UNA-USA is the world's largest UN advocacy network. As of 2020, it has over 20,000 members across more than 200 chapters in cities and universities nationwide; the majority of members are under age of twenty-six. It is a member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, which comprises other national UN advocacy organizations.

History
The United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) was founded during World War II to build American support for a new international organization designed to sustain the peace once the war was won. It considered itself the direct successor of the League of Nations Association, which was founded in 1923. At that time, the term "United Nations" referred to the allied nations fighting against fascism, but some leaders had already begun to embrace it as the brand name for a new international organization. UNA-USA's first major initiative was a nationwide tour by a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders, including then Senator Harry Truman, to promote public support for a Congressional resolution for the US to become a member of a postwar organization of "free and sovereign nations." The resolution, sponsored by Texas Senator Thomas Connally, was adopted with broad bipartisan support in November 1943 giving the Roosevelt administration the mandate it needed to launch the San Francisco Conference where the UN Charter was ultimately signed in 1945.

At the San Francisco Conference, the association (renamed in 1945 as the American Association for the United Nations) served as Secretariat for a coalition of 42 national organizations who were appointed by the State Department to provide input into the negotiations. These 42 "Consultants," which included such diverse organizations as the NAACP and the American Association of University Women, played a key role in ensuring that the Charter included both a mandate to advance human rights and a provision allowing for the formal participation of civil society organizations in UN deliberations.

When Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady of the United States, completed her term as a US representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 1953, she walked into the association's New York office and volunteered to help. This was the quiet beginning of a major campaign in which Mrs. Roosevelt carried the message of UN across the country through personal appearances, recruitment speeches, and fundraising efforts. Mrs. Roosevelt was instrumental in building the association's national network of chapters on college campuses and in communities across the US, an effort that continue until her death in 1962.

In 1964, UNA-USA (then still operating under the AAUN name) merged with the US Committee for the United Nations, a group composed of 138 national organizations supporting the work of the United Nations. The newly merged organization returned to the original UNA-USA name. Over the next forty years, UNA-USA would complement its grassroots mission by conducting groundbreaking policy research, convening track two diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and promoting Model UN education programs at home and abroad.

In 2011, UNA-USA merged with the United Nations Foundation combining the association's grassroots network and public engagement capacity with the foundation's advocacy resources and global convening power. The merger created the largest network of UN advocates worldwide.

Programs
Programs at the UN: UNA-USA's Global Engagement Summit hosted at the UN each year in February convenes over 1,500 Americans to engage with UN leaders, from the Secretary-General to Ambassadors of UN member nations, explore the top issues on the global agenda, elevate a diverse range of American voices, and equip UNA-USA members to be leaders on international cooperation in their communities throughout the year. In addition, UNA-USA members are eligible to attend a wide range of UN events throughout the year including the Conference on the Status of Women (CSW) to the UN Civil Society Forum.

Programs in DC: UNA-USA's Global Leadership Summit hosted in Washington each year in June gathers over 500 chapter leaders, members, and partners to share best practices on advocating for the UN and advancing the SDG's. The summit culminates with UNA-USA's lobby day when advocates converge on Capitol Hill to demonstrate that our country is stronger when we don't go it alone.

Programs Throughout the Country: UNA-USA chapters host events throughout the year to elevate important issues where the UN plays a critical role, from humanitarian assistance to climate change, and to celebrate local leaders who are advancing global priorities such as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. These events are frequently tied to major International Celebration Days such as International Women's Day, Earth Day, and Human Rights Day and often feature community leaders, such as human trafficking task force members or private sector sustainability champions, whose local mission has a global impact. Throughout the month of October, UNA-USA chapters host over 200 events to celebrate the anniversary of the UN's founding (October 24).

Education Outreach: Many UNA-USA chapters also partner with local school districts to host or support Model UN programs. In addition, UNA-USA provides free online teaching materials to enable teachers to put kids who may never hold a passport into the shoes of a diplomat by transforming their classrooms in to UN Security Council negotiations.

Seton Hall Partnership: Since 1997, UNA-USA has partnered with Seton Hall's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, one of the nation's top professional schools of international affairs, to host a wide range of collaborative programs. Every summer, UNA-USA and Seton Hall host graduate students from around the world for a "UN Intensive" course in New York featuring interactive sessions with UN leaders. UNA-USA also hosts the Seton Hall Washington Semester Program and works throughout the year to connect faculty and students to opportunities to participate in UN events.

Membership
UNA-USA has more than 200 chapters in communities and on college campuses across the country and over 20,000 members (60% under the age of 25). These members carry out programs and advocacy campaigns at the local level through a wide range of programs and events.

Councils
The UNA-USA National Council is an elected body of UNA-USA volunteer leaders which guides the organization's mission and work. Consisting of 30 representatives elected on a regional basis the National Council meets twice a year to make recommendations on advocacy and other program priorities.


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CHUM Limited

CHUM Limited was a Canadian media company based in Toronto, Ontario in operation from 1945 to 2007. The company was founded in 1945 as York Broadcasters Limited when it launched CHUM-AM 1050 but was acquired by salesman Allan Waters in 1954. CHUM had expanded to and owned 33 radio stations across Canada under its CHUM Radio Network division (now Bell Media Radio) and also owned other radio stations.

The company also operated full or joint control of 15 local television stations under the ATV, Citytv (acquired in 1981) and A-Channel (formerly NewNet, now CTV 2) brands, one CBC Television affiliate, one provincial educational channel, Atlantic Satellite Network in Atlantic Canada, and 20 branded specialty television channels, most notably MuchMusic and its various spin-offs that were launched under Moses Znaimer, the co-founder of CITY-TV, targeting younger audiences.

In July 2006, one year after the death of Waters, CHUM agreed to merge with CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media), owner of the CTV Television Network. The merger was completed on June 22, 2007; regulatory approval was made conditional on the sale of CHUM's five Citytv stations to Rogers Communications. The company itself was renamed CTV Limited (now CTV Inc.) and continues as a subsidiary of Bell Media. Its Toronto radio stations TSN RADIO 1050 and CHUM 104.5 continue to use "CHUM" as their call signs. The headquarters were located at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, the famous CHUM-City Building, which currently serves as Bell Media's headquarters.

With the sale of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada as announced in September 2010, Bell took control of most of CHUM's former assets for the first time. CTVglobemedia was subsequently renamed Bell Media on April 1, 2011, after the deal to purchase the stations was finalized and the CHUM name was completely phased out from its new entity, with the exception of radion stations CHUM-AM and CHUM-FM in Toronto.

Precursory
CHUM Limited began operations when CHUM-AM was founded in 1945 by four Toronto businessmen, including Al Leary, a former sportscaster, who had been the station manager at CKCL for 14 years. CHUM received its licence in late November 1944 to operate a station with 1000 watts. CHUM launched as a dawn-to-dusk radio station under York Broadcasters Limited on 28 October 1945, with John H.Q. "Jack" Part, an entrepreneur in the business of patent medicines, as its president. The station, then operating from studios in the Mutual Street Arena, broadcast a format typical of the late 1940s, with a combination of information, music, and sports. When CHUM was about to debut, Leary told the press that the new station would be known for community service and in-depth news, in addition to live talent and the most popular phonograph records.

Allan Waters, a salesman from Part's patent medicine business took control of CHUM-AM in 1954. Waters' first major move was to secure a licence for 24-hour-a-day broadcasting for CHUM, along with a power increase to 5,000 watts. On April 17, 1959, the name York Broadcasters was changed to CHUM 1050 Radio Ltd.. The CHUM studios were moved from 250 Adelaide Street West to 1331 Yonge Street, Toronto, where their iconic neon sign was erected for the first time. CHUM-FM would begin broadcasting in 1963 under a Classical Music/Fine Arts format. Alex Forbes, whose accounting firm Ewin & Forbes had been CHUM's auditor since 1952, joined CHUM 1050 Radio Ltd. as Secretary-Treasurer. He would play a pivotal role in the company's development.

Entering into the television world
The company expanded into television holdings for the first time when it gained a one-third interest in CBC affiliate CKVR-TV, a station founded by Ralph Snelgrove (whose first initial and that of his wife, Valerie, form part of the station's callsign), in Barrie. It acquired a second one-third share in 1968, and eventually gained full control in 1970.

On May 12, 1967, under the corporate name CHUM Limited, Allan Waters took the rapidly expanding company public. At the same time, Alex Forbes was appointed to the Board of Directors of CHUM Limited, while it received approval to acquire Ottawa's Radio CFRA Limited and control of two key stations in the market: CFRA-AM and CFMO-FM. CHUM-AM launched the CHUM Christmas Wish, evolving out of The CHUM Kids Crusade, and operating in conjunction with The CHUM Charitable Foundation. This would become an annual event for over forty years under the CHUM-City Christmas Wish, and currently, the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish.

CITY-TV – the Toronto UHF station launched with great flair and style in 1972 by Moses Znaimer – ran into financial debt by 1975. Multiple Access Ltd. (the owners of CFCF in Montreal) purchased 45% of the station in 1977, and sold its stake to CHUM Limited three years later. CITY was purchased outright by CHUM in 1981 with the sale of Moses Znaimer's interest in the station. In 1987, CITY and the other CHUM-owned television stations moved to the CHUM-City Building at 299 Queen Street West, which became one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city. The CHUM Radio Building at 1331 Yonge Street remained CHUM Limited's corporate headquarters.

Specialty additions
Between 1984 and 1999, CHUM Limited expanded into many new television holdings such as MuchMusic, Star!, Space, Bravo!, CP24, SexTV: The Channel, Fashion Television Channel, Canadian Learning Television, and many others. In September 1995, CKVR disaffiliated from the CBC after 30 years, and was re-launched as an independent station with a more youthful image in order to generate interest from viewers in the neighbouring Toronto market, where CKVR had long been available on basic cable. This included adopting a news format similar to the CityPulse newscasts on CITY, replacing its various classic TV shows with more contemporary series, and picking up a package of games for the Toronto Raptors, Toronto's then-new NBA franchise. The resulting station became known as The New VR. That same year, the CHUM Radio Network was established to deliver syndicated radio programs across Canada.

The experiment was successful enough that CHUM replicated CKVR's format on several stations it had acquired from Baton Broadcasting in 1997, including CHRO in Pembroke, CFPL in London, CKNX in Wingham, and CHWI in Windsor. Most of these stations were also former CBC affiliates, and all were in markets where CKVR's sister station, CITY-TV, were already available on basic cable. CIVI in Victoria, British Columbia was added into the system by CHUM at its launch in October 2001. A month prior, CHUM bought CKVU from CanWest Global and it became Citytv Vancouver on July 22, 2002. Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming was syndicated to KVOS in nearby Bellingham, Washington.

Final years
Moses Znaimer retired from active management at CHUM in April 2003, and briefly continued to work on projects with the company, before moving on to other ventures such as ZoomerMedia.

On December 1, 2004, CHUM purchased Craig Media Inc., which owned five local TV stations, mainly in the Prairies, and three digital specialty services, for $265 million CAD. While Craig's three largest stations were integrated into Citytv, Craig's Toronto station CKXT-TV (then branded "Toronto 1", now Sun TV) was sold to Quebecor. In addition to its own stations, CHUM was one of several sources (alongside Canwest's CH / E! and Global TV) providing syndicated programming to independently owned CBC and CTV affiliates.

CHUM announced in February 2005 that the NewNet stations would be relaunched under the A-Channel brand by that fall; the rebrand took place on August 2, 2005, the same date when the former A-Channel stations in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary, recently acquired by CHUM from Craig Media, were relaunched under the Citytv brand. At the same time, CHUM announced plans to consolidate the master control departments for CKVR, CFPL, CHRO, CHWI and CKNX at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, as well as the traffic and programming departments at CFPL, resulting in the loss of approximately nine staff members from CKVR. The switch occurred on June 3, 2005.

Allan Waters stepped down from the CHUM Limited Board of Directors in October and became an honorary director. On December 3, 2005, Waters died in Toronto at the age of 84. Following tributes from across Canada, more than 2,000 attended a celebration of his life at Toronto's Westin Harbour Castle Conference Centre.

Sale to CTVglobemedia
On July 12, 2006, CHUM announced that it had agreed to a takeover by Bell Globemedia, renamed CTVglobemedia and now Bell Media, (herein abbreviated "CTV" or "CTVgm" for brevity), in a transaction valuing CHUM at $1.7 billion CAD. The takeover required approval from two regulatory bodies, the Competition Bureau, which approved the transaction on March 2, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which held a public hearing beginning April 30, 2007 in Gatineau.

CTVgm's takeover bid was completed on October 30, although CHUM was immediately in a blind trust under lawyer John McKellar.

Immediately following the announcement, CHUM separately announced 281 layoffs, primarily at its local stations in western Canada; local newscasts (other than Breakfast Television and the Noon News in Calgary and Edmonton) at all Citytv stations in the region were immediately pulled. CHUM claims the layoffs were part of an ongoing process to streamline its operations and not directly related to the takeover.

On June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv rather than A-Channel. This consequently voided the Rogers deal; on June 11, 2007, Rogers announced that it has agreed to buy the Citytv stations. CTV said it would keep all other assets, except CHUM's interest in MusiquePlus/MusiMax, and potentially CKX-TV and CLT.

The sale of the CHUM Limited properties to CTVglobemedia was completed on June 22, 2007 with CTVgm as the sole owner of CHUM. The Citytv stations remained under blind trust awaiting sale to Rogers Media (see below).

Following the takeover less than a month, Richard Gray was named head of news for the A-Channel stations and CKX-TV (another station in the CHUM acquisition). Gray reports directly to the CTVgm corporate group instead of CTV News to preserve independent news presentation and management. Gray now oversees CKVR and the other news departments; CHRO, CFPL, CKNX, CHWI, CIVI and CKX-TV.

Additional developments
With CHUM Limited dissolved, there were a number of changes. Between 2008 and 2009, Corus Entertainment acquired SexTV: The Channel, CLT, and Drive-In Classics from CTV Ltd. for an estimated worth of $73 million and $40 million each. However, it was announced that CTVglobemedia would be selling CKX-TV in Brandon, Manitoba to Bluepoint Investment Corporation for a dollar. But that station was closed down on October 2, 2009, after Bluepoint rejected the deal the day before. At the same time, they shut down CKNX-TV.

For Citytv, the transaction was worth over $375 million. Media analysts have suggested that with a more powerful media conglomerate such as Rogers behind them the Citytv stations will effectively become Canada's fourth full-fledged commercial television network, in effect if not immediately in name. The Citytv transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28, 2007, and Rogers officially became Citytv's new owner on October 31. Rogers subsequently purchased 33 Dundas Street East, the former Olympic Spirit building, located at the edge of Dundas Square for the use of its Toronto television stations, and CITY-TV moved out from 299 Queen Street West into the new facility on September 8, 2009. In 2010, CP24 extended their 5:00pm newscast after the announcement regarding their massive firings taking place at Rogers Media's Citytv stations across Canada including the cancellation of Citytv Toronto's CityNews at Five. That same year, Corus relaunched CLT as "Viva", then OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on March 1, 2011. As well, Star! will be relaunched as E! on November 29, 2010 after CTV announced it had signed a multi-year deal with Comcast. CHUM eventually acquired CFXJ-FM from Milestone Radio that same year since the sale to CTVgm.

As Shaw Communications purchasing the Global Television Network and the Canwest television properties, Vidéotron launching its wireless telephone network with video content as a key selling point, and the enormous popularity of wireless and Internet video and other media streams at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Bell once again sought to bring a content provider into its portfolio. It was announced to re-acquire 100% of the company's broadcasting arm in September 2010, including CTV Limited. Under the deal, Woodbridge, Torstar, and Teachers' received $1.3 billion in either cash or equity in BCE, while BCE will also assume $1.7 billion in debt (BCE's existing equity interest is $200 million, for a total transaction value of $3.2 billion). Woodbridge will simultaneously regain majority control of The Globe and Mail, with Bell retaining a 15% interest. The deal is expected to close by mid-2011 pending CRTC approval. CTVglobemedia officially became Bell Media when the deal was finalized on April 1, 2011. At the same time, CHUM Limited / CTV Limited became CTV Inc. (now Bell Media Inc.). and CHUM Radio became Bell Media Radio.

Corporate governance
The last board of directors of CHUM Limited were: Gordon Craig, Denise Donlon, Lawrence Lamb, John Mattenley, Fred Sherratt, Robert Sutherland, Jay Switzer, Catherine Tait, James Waters (chairman), Marjorie Waters, and Ron Waters. Allan Waters retired from the board on October 29, 2005.

Radio stations at time of sale
In November, 2004, CHUM and Astral Media filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a subscription radio service in Canada. That application, along with two satellite radio services, were approved by the CRTC on June 16, 2005. While the two satellite services launched soon after the decision, CHUM did not implement its service, the authority for which expired on June 16, 2007 (two years after licensing).

Other

 * Edmonton, Alberta – ACCESS (provincially authorized educational broadcaster, now part a CTV 2 station)
 * Ottawa, Ontario - CHUM Satellite News (CSN) bureau on Parliament Hill supplying Citytv, A-Channel and NewNet stations with national news coverage 1999-2008

Analogue specialty cable channels

 * MuchMusic
 * MuchMoreMusic (known as MuchMore, M3 ; replaced by Gusto in 2016 and rebranded as CTV Life Channel in 2019)
 * Bravo! (now rebranded as CTV Drama Channel)
 * Canadian Learning Television (known as Viva, and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network ; now owned by Corus Entertainment)
 * CP24
 * Space (now rebranded as CTV Sci-Fi Channel)
 * Star! (now replaced by E!)

Digital specialty cable channels

 * CourtTV Canada (known as Investigation Discovery )
 * FashionTelevisionChannel (ceased broadcasting in 2021)
 * BookTelevision (ceased broadcasting in 2021)
 * Drive-In Classics (known as Sundance Channel ; sold to Corus Entertainment in 2010, ceased broadcasting in 2018)
 * MuchLOUD (known as Stingray Loud ; now owned by Stringray Group)
 * MuchMoreRetro (known as Much Retro, and Stingray Retro ; now owned by Stringray Group)
 * MuchVibe (known as Stingray Vibe ; now owned by Stringray)
 * PunchMuch (known as Juicebox, and Stingray Juicebox ; now owned by Stringray Group)
 * Razer (known as MTV2, ceased broadcasting in 2024)
 * SexTV: The Channel (known as W Movies, and Cooking Channel ; now owned by Corus Entertainment)

Co-owned

 * MusiquePlus 50% (with Astral Media; now owned by Remcorp)
 * MusiMax 50% (with Astral Media; now owned by Remcorp)
 * TV Land Canada 80% (with Viacom; known as Comedy Gold ; ceased broadcasting in 2019)

Active

 * Citytv Bogotá
 * Citytv Puerto Rico
 * MuchMusic Argentina
 * MuchMusic Malaysia
 * MuchMusic Mexico (programming block on Once TV)
 * Star! Scandinavia (programming is a mix of several CHUM channels, such as Star!, FashionTelevisionChannel and MuchMoreMusic)

title: CHUM Limited