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KERA-TV

KERA-TV (channel 13) is a PBS member television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Owned by North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., it is sister to NPR member station KERA (90.1 FM), adult album alternative station KKXT (91.7 FM), and classical music station WRR (101.1 FM, which is operated under a management services agreement with the City of Dallas). The stations share studios on Harry Hines Boulevard; KERA-TV's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

History
The VHF channel 13 allocation in the Dallas–Fort Worth market—which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reserved for non-commercial educational use in its list of frequencies assigned for broadcast television transmissions—was originally applied for use by Southern Methodist University in the late 1950s; however, the university had trouble raising enough funds for its planned educational station's start-up, programming and operational costs.

In 1958, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) partnered with local nonprofit corporation Area Education Television Foundation, Inc. (which later evolved into North Texas Public Broadcasting) to apply for the allocation. In October of that year, W. T. White, then-superintendent of the DISD, announced that the station was slated to sign on the air by the beginning of the 1959–60 school year; programming on channel 13 was scheduled to include Spanish-language instructional programming for area elementary school students. The foundation had difficulty in meeting its fundraising goals to obtain start-up costs for the commencement of operations and broadcasts of its educational station; by May 1959, the foundation was said to be $265,000 short of its $890,000 target to cover the proposed station's first two years of broadcasting.

The original license application filed by the organization-school district partnership had obtained permission from the FCC to operate the station from broadcast facilities located in Fair Park (on land donated to the Area Educational Television Foundation and the DISD by the Dallas city government). However, in January 1960, the partnership applied for permission to broadcast from studios on Harry Hines Boulevard that were set to be vacated by ABC affiliate WFAA-TV (channel 8), which had been used by that station since its sign-on (as DuMont-Paramount affiliate KBTV) in September 1949. A. H. Belo Corporation was in the process of building new studio facilities at Young and Houston Streets to accommodate the operations of local newspaper The Dallas Morning News, WFAA television, and its companion radio stations (570 AM, now KLIF and 97.9 FM, now KBFB; the latter of which ironically once held the KERA-FM call letters now used by KERA-TV's sister radio station on 90.1 FM). The Dallas Independent School District purchased the building on Harry Hines for $400,000.

KERA-TV (the call letters are said to represent a "new era in broadcasting") signed on the air on September 11, 1960, originally serving as a member station of National Educational Television (NET). It originally operated from temporary studio facilities at the Davis Building—located behind the original WFAA studios—in downtown Dallas, in two portable buildings that were made to resemble a schoolhouse. It also used the original transmission tower used by WFAA-TV from 1960 to 1971, before moving its transmitter to a tower in Cedar Hill owned by then-independent station KTVT (channel 11, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) until 2009, when KTVT moved its transmitter to a different tower site a short distance away. However, KERA's transmitter only produced a medium-power signal that covered Dallas and surrounding suburbs in Dallas, Collin, Hunt, Rockwall, Ellis and Kaufman counties. The station would migrate its operations to the Harry Hines Boulevard facility in April 1961.

During its first years of operation, KERA benefitted frequently through help from commercial broadcast stations in the Metroplex. The Dallas Independent School District also paid the station to carry instructional telecourses that it would produce for broadcast on channel 13. The issues concerning channel 13's limited signal range would be resolved on August 31, 1970, when a new transmitter was installed that expanded KERA's signal coverage into Fort Worth and surrounding communities in Tarrant, Denton, Wise, Parker, Hood and Johnson counties. That same year, KERA became a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which was launched as an independent entity to supersede NET and took over many of the functions of its predecessor network.

In 1974, KERA gained a sister station on radio, when National Public Radio station KERA signed on the air on 90.1 FM; over time, KERA radio would expand its reach throughout North Texas through the launch of translators in Wichita Falls, Tyler and Sherman. That year, channel 13 became the first television station in the United States to broadcast episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus; the station is often credited with introducing the British comedy series to American audiences, which eventually gave Flying Circus a cult following.

On September 1, 1988, North Texas Public Broadcasting signed on KDTN (channel 2) in Denton to serve as the market's secondary PBS member station, a project which the organization had been working on since May 1977, when it filed an FCC application for a construction permit to build an educational station on VHF channel 2 (North Texas Public Broadcasting would reach an agreement with its lone remaining competitor for the permit in 1984 to obtain the permit). The organization primarily used KDTN to run educational and instructional programs that had previously filled much of KERA's daytime schedule, along with carrying some programs produced by the University of North Texas (the KDTN studio facility was based on the university's campus). At that time, KERA shifted its schedule to offering primarily entertainment programming from PBS and other public television program distributors such as American Public Television; channel 13 also identified Denton as part of the station's service area in station identifications during the period it operated KDTN.

After making the decision to divest the secondary outlet on the basis that its funding was no longer sufficient to continue operating two television stations in the Metroplex, North Texas Public Broadcasting sold KDTN to religious broadcaster Daystar—which bought the station in a $20 million deal in order to get a better signal in the market to replace its original flagship, KMPX (channel 29, now an Estrella TV affiliate), which it sold in turn—on August 12, 2003; the acquisition was finalized on January 13, 2004.

Through a special arrangement, KERA announced plans to continue carrying programming sourced from the station over KDTN's digital signal, in order to free up bandwidth on KERA's main digital signal to allow the station to begin transmitting high-definition content on digital channel 13.1. This has never been utilized as improvements in multiplexing technology have allowed a high-definition channel to exist with standard-definition channels, and KERA has had no need to use KDTN's bandwidth.

Programming
As a PBS member station, much of KERA's programming consists of educational and entertainment programming distributed by PBS to its member stations, which include NOVA, the PBS NewsHour, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Frontline, Masterpiece, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Nature and Sesame Street. While there is cross-promotion between KERA-TV and the KERA, KKXT and WRR radio stations, the radio properties conduct pledge drives independent of those conducted by channel 13.

KERA airs children's programming from PBS and American Public Television on its main feed each Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., as well as 24 hours a day on its PBS Kids-affiliated subchannel on digital channel 13.2. KERA has the second-largest audience average for children's programming among public television stations in the United States, with its programs reaching over 350,000 children each week.

Original and PBS-distributed programs produced by KERA
KERA has long contributed original programming for distribution to the nationwide PBS system and individual member stations, including documentaries such as JFK: Breaking the News and Matisse and Picasso, the latter of which earned the station an Emmy Award nomination. The station also produced the PBS documentary series The U.S.–Mexican War, which aired between 1995 and 2006.

Other programs from KERA's production department that have been distributed to public television stations throughout Texas and nationwide have included The Texas Debates, CEO (a monthly interview series hosted by Lee Cullum, airing on KERA television and radio, which features interviews with chief executives from the corporate and non-profit sectors in North Texas that inquires about how companies try to attain or maintain success in the current global marketplace, as well as leadership style and ethics) and The Van Cliburn: 50 Years of Gold. It also produces Frame of Mind, a series co-produced by KERA's Art&Seek unit and the Video Association of Dallas, which showcases independent films, documentaries and video shorts from Texas-based filmmakers.

News operation
KERA-TV became one of the earliest educational television stations in the U.S. to establish a news department on February 16, 1970, when it premiered Newsroom, a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast that aired Monday through Friday evenings, and was based on a similar program that aired on San Francisco PBS member station KQED. In October 1976, the program was relaunched as a half-hour prime time newscast under the title The 9 O'Clock Report, predating the move of then-independent station KTVT's late evening newscast to the 9 p.m. timeslot in August 1990. Within months of the change, channel 13 moved its evening newscast two hours earlier to 7 p.m. on January 31, 1977 (with the move, the program was briefly retitled as The 7 O'Clock Report, before becoming 13 Report the following month). KERA shut down its news department on September 21, 1977.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Jerry Haynes – host of Peppermint Place (1975–1996); program was revamped version of former WFAA program Mr. Peppermint
 * Jim Lehrer – anchor of Newsroom (later anchor of the PBS NewsHour; died on January 23, 2020)

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KERA began broadcasting and transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 14 on December 14, 2000. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on the UHF channel 14 allocation it used during the transition period. Digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 13.

Wichita Falls

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Prior to the sign-on of the station's Wichita Falls translator, KERA had maintained a unique arrangement to distribute its programming to northwest Texas and southwestern Oklahoma, which was one of the few areas of the United States that did not have a PBS member station of its own. Wichita Falls Educational Translator, Inc., a group headed by longtime State Representative Ray Farabee, launched KIDZ-TV on UHF channel 24 on November 13, 1973; the station maintained a full-power license, but operated at an effective radiated power of only 2.82 kilowatts, producing a signal that had limited coverage propagation from the transmitter equivalent to that of many low-power stations. Before the expansion of cable television into the area, the goals were simple; among them, to make the popular children's program Sesame Street available to viewers in Wichita Falls (at the time, it was standard for PBS to offer programs to commercial stations in areas that did not have public television service; but for unknown reasons, none of the three commercial stations in the Wichita Falls-Lawton market—NBC affiliate KFDX-TV (channel 3), CBS affiliate KAUZ-TV (channel 6) or ABC affiliate KSWO-TV (channel 7)—were interested). The local group had planned to apply for and build a translator to extend the KIDZ signal into the area. At the time, translators were only allowed to use signals picked up off the air, and KERA's signal was marginal at best in that part of North Texas.

KIDZ-TV shared tower space with KAUZ-TV, with the transmitter rebroadcasting KERA-TV's programming during the hours that KAUZ when was broadcasting, roughly between 6 a.m. and midnight. This meant that some specials that KERA aired on weekend evenings were interrupted before their conclusion when the KAUZ engineers (who tended channel 24 as a public service) switched off the transmitters for the night and went home.

By the late 1970s, the FCC updated its broadcast translator regulations to allow a microwave relay to be used to feed programming transmissions to the translator station. KERA was therefore able to build its own translator in Wichita Falls, also on channel 24, as K24AD. The translator provided a better signal quality and could operate throughout KERA's designated broadcast hours. The repeater moved to UHF channel 44 in 2005, at which point it changed its call sign to K44GS. In September 2009, the FCC granted a construction permit to North Texas Public Broadcasting to convert K44GS to digital transmissions; the permit remained valid until September 2012 (the current occupant of channel 24, K24HH-D, is unrelated to K24AD or the earlier KIDZ-TV). In summer of 2018, the callsign changed to K26NK-D.

On December 18, 2020, two transmission towers that housed the transmitter facilities of K26NK-D and Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) were vandalized when an unidentified suspect cut guy wires attached to both facilities; the tower belonging to K26NK-D as well as local NOAA Weather Radio station WXK31 later collapsed due to a lack of wire support to buffer it from winds gusting to 35 mph in the area. (The KJTL tower was able to remain standing in the strong winds, as the vandal had cut only two wires on that facility.) The translator remained off the air until May 6, 2021, when KERA restored service to K26NK-D on a separate tower north of Seymour Highway (near the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line) in southwestern Wichita Falls.

Tyler
In October 2009, North Texas Public Broadcasting filed an application with the FCC for a license to operate a KERA translator in Tyler. The license application requested for the translator to operate on UHF channel 25. The application was dismissed in March 2011. Two additional applications are still pending for repeaters on UHF channels 35 and 44, but no apparent actions have been taken on these applications to date.

Out-of-market coverage
KERA-TV serves as the default PBS member station for several markets in North and West Texas that do not have a locally based PBS member station, including Abilene, San Angelo and the Tyler–Longview–Lufkin–Nacogdoches DMA, as well as the Texas side of the Sherman–Ada market. KERA is also available on cable in Hillsboro, Waco and Texarkana.

KERA Passport
KERA Passport is a localized version of the PBS Passport video-on-demand service that offers expansive access to video content for KERA member donors who contribute $60 or more annually or at least $5 in ongoing monthly donations to KERA-TV and KERA radio. Introduced in 2016, KERA Passport allows members to save shows available for streaming on the platform to a watchlist, view archived programs (such as Downton Abbey, NOVA, Call the Midwife, Austin City Limits, Frontline and American Masters), and watch favorited programs online and through the PBS Passport app.

Tellyspotting
Tellyspotting is a blog operated by KERA that provides news about British television series (many of which – specifically those aired as part of the PBS wheel series Masterpiece, such as Victoria and Sherlock – are carried by KERA-TV, or its traditional block of Britcoms), detailing new and upcoming programs, and news and articles about British-originated programs aggregated from around the Internet.

Education and community engagement
KERA maintains several digital resources available for use by local schools and organizations serving children and families across North Texas. "Ready for Life" is a multimedia initiative that provides resources for parents, teachers and caregivers to prepare school-age children to live healthy and socially enriched lives, offering training modules on temperament, attachment and socialization, early literacy and nutrition and fitness; a 60-minute documentary; books; and Spanish-language materials.

The "Summer Learning Challenge" is an annual initiative targeted at families and organized with participating North Texas nonprofits. Participants are required to complete a series of online PBS-related activities and challenges, while families are encouraged to read books, prepare recipes and take part in KERA-recommended summer activities together.

In March–April 2016, KERA held the Dallas-Fort Worth iteration of the Cyberchase Step It Up! program, in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth and the Blue Zones Project, which was designed to inspire kids and educators to find opportunities to work more steps in their regular day while learning about math. In June 2016, KERA hosted and sponsored an event at the Trinity River Audubon Center (TRAC) for 120 children from lower-income and immigrant families, in which participants engaged in educational activities centered around the Trinity River.

KERA also hosts various screenings related to television programs and focused on community engagement. In the fall of 2016, KERA hosted two screenings of the documentary Willie Velásquez: Your Vote is Your Voice. In March 2016, KERA partnered with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation to present two screenings of the Ken Burns documentary Jackie Robinson, which chronicled the life and contributions of the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. In April 2017, KERA hosted a screening for Burns' multi-part documentary film, The Vietnam War.

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Ante Ledić

Ante Ledić (born 13 October 1939 in Aržano) is a Croatian businessman, politician from and vice-president of Croatian Christian Democratic Party.

In his youth, Ledić was a Yugoslav champion and national record holder in long jump and decathlon. His decathlon personal best, set in 1961, makes him the all-time top ten Croatian decathlete.

He has never been a member of a political party, but he was very close to Franjo Tuđman and the Croatian Democratic Union. His first entry to politics happened during the Zagreb Crisis when he was proposed by Tuđman as a compromise candidate for Zagreb mayor.

In 2000 he ran for Croatian president as an independent candidate, finishing 5th, with 0.85% of the vote.

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Tad Dorgan

Thomas Aloysius "Tad" Dorgan (April 29, 1877 – May 2, 1929) was an Irish American cartoonist. He is known for his cartoon panel Indoor Sports and comic strip Judge Rummy, as well as the many English words and expressions he coined or popularized.

Early life
Dorgan was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1877. He was one of at least eleven children —six sons and five daughters – of Thomas J. and Anna Dorgan. His brother John L. "Ike" Dorgan (born April 1879) was publicity manager for the Madison Square Garden, and his brother Richard W. "Dick" Dorgan (born September 1892) was an illustrator and cartoonist.

Polytechnic High School teachers Rosey Murdoch and Maria Van Vieck recognized and encouraged Tad's talent as an artist. When Dorgan was a child, he lost several fingers of his right hand in an accident whose details are unclear. Cosmopolitan writer O. O. McIntyre, a friend of Dorgan's, wrote that when Dorgan "was eight, he was fooling around on a house-moving job and attempted to ride a shovel on a rope that was propelled by a big pulley. He turned his head for a second and his right hand was caught in a pulley, crushing off four fingers of that right hand, which was reduced to a thumb and a piece of knuckle." Henry Morton Robinson's description of the incident is largely the same, except that he said it took place when Dorgan was nine. Westbrook Pegler, another friend of Dorgan's, wrote that Dorgan had lost "the first two fingers and half of the palm of his right hand" in an incident with a buzzsaw. Comics historian John Adcock has noted that, of all the "dozens of different stories", only McIntyre's version accorded with the statement on Dorgan's draft card that he had "all fingers except thumb off of right hand".

After the amputation, Dorgan took up drawing for therapy. When he was 14 he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Bulletin.

Strips and panels
He created his first comic strip, Johnny Wise, for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1902. By 1905 he was working in New York City at the New York Journal as a sports writer and cartoonist. Jack Dempsey described him as "the greatest authority on boxing."

In addition to his work as a sports journalist, Dorgan did a humor feature, "Daffydills." His dog cartoons, including Judge Rummy (1910-1922), evolved into the strip Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit. This was accompanied by a one-panel gag series called Indoor Sports which became his main feature, along with an occasional Outdoor Sports.

Slang
Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as "dumbbell" (a stupid person); "for crying out loud" (an exclamation of astonishment); "cat's meow" and "cat's pajamas" (as superlatives); "applesauce" (nonsense); "cheaters" (eyeglasses); "skimmer" (a hat); "hard-boiled" (tough and unsentimental); "drugstore cowboy" (a loafer or ladies' man); "nickel-nurser" (a miser); "as busy as a one-armed paperhanger" (overworked); and "Yes, we have no bananas," which was turned into a popular song.

In the New York Times obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and Ring Lardner as a popularizer of "a new slang vernacular." His obituary also credited him as the originator of "Twenty-three, Skidoo," "solid ivory," "Dumb Dora," "finale hopper," "Benny" for hat, and "dogs'" for shoes. W. J. Funk, of the Funk and Wagnall's dictionary company, placed Dorgan at the top of the list of the ten "most fecund makers of American slang."

Dorgan was erroneously credited with coining the usage of the phrase "hot dog" as slang for sausage.

Life in Great Neck
Tad Dorgan and his wife, Izole M., lived in Great Neck, New York in a house valued at $75,000. They had no biological children, but they raised two Chinese children to adulthood. Dorgan stopped attending sporting events in the early 1920s because of poor health, and a heart ailment kept him at home for the last eight years of his life, but he continued to produce sports comics for Hearst until his death. He died in Great Neck of heart disease, hastened by pneumonia. Hearst newspapers announced his passing in front-page headlines and some of his cartoons were reprinted for a short time. Izole, a writer before she married Dorgan, was the vice-president of the National Doll and Toy Collectors Club. After Tad's death, she started a successful business manufacturing doll furniture.

Books
Dorgan's first book collection was Daffydills, published by Cupples & Leon in 1911. This was followed by several Indoor Sports collections.

Awards
Tad Dorgan was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007 in the category of "Observer"; that is, print and media journalists, publishers, writers, historians, photographers, and artists.

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Armed and Dangerous (video game)

Armed and Dangerous is a 2003 shooter video game created by Planet Moon Studios and released by LucasArts. It is a third-person action-adventure shooter which parodies video games and other media such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, using humorous in-game dialogue and cutscenes. The game features known actors and voice actors such as Brian George as main hero Roman, Jeff Bennett, John Mariano and Pat Fraley as his sidekicks Jonesy, Rexus and Q (respectively) and Tony Jay as villain King Forge.

Gameplay
Armed and Dangerous is a third-person shooter action game, the camera hovering behind Roman, the player character, at all times. The game is played mostly on foot, with most levels incorporating usable gun emplacements, although there are some base defense levels where the player is inside a movable gun turret mounted on rails on top of a defensive wall; these levels are played in first-person.

Playable weaponry and equipment in the game is a mix of shooter staples, including bolt-action and sniper rifles, submachine guns and rocket launchers, but also more unusual fare like the 'Land Shark Gun', which fires into the ground a rapidly maturing infant Land Shark, a creature that 'swims' through the earth, seeking out and devouring enemies. Other unusual devices include a miniature black hole, a gas grenade that turns enemies against each other, and a device that temporarily reverses gravity, causing enemies to 'fall' into the sky and literally turning the world upside-down before the device shuts down, returning gravity to normal and returning affected enemies to earth, killing them by the fall. Apart from weaponry, some of the later levels equip the player with a jet pack, allowing flight over moderate distances.

Plot
In the fantasy world of Milola, three outcasts known as the Lionhearts – Roman, Q, and Jonesy – head to the arctic Bergog Wasteland to recruit a small blind man by the name of Rexus who they think they might need him to pull off the perfect heist: steal the legendary Book of Rule, a magical book that offers supreme power for anyone who uses it. The reason they need him is because the book had a locking spell which turns it into the Book of Basket Weaving. The Wild Wood Monks have been trying to unlock it for years by the order the villain King Forge, who plans to turn Milola into a theme park for his dim-witted son Prince Stig, and enslaving the rest of the world.

Development
Pre-production on the game started in the Winter of 2001.

Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

Backwards compatibility
On November 28, 2007, Microsoft released the backward compatibility update for the Xbox 360 which allows Xbox 360 owners to play the Xbox disc version of Armed and Dangerous.

In 2019, Microsoft ended the backward compatibility program for the Xbox One for both Xbox Original and 360 titles. Armed and Dangerous was among the last batch of Xbox Original titles made compatible on the Xbox One system.

Armed and Dangerous was added to the Xbox Marketplace as a digital download for Xbox 360, Xbox One and then-upcoming "Project Scarlet". All disc versions of the game are also playable on all systems.

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College of Engineering, Pune

College Of Engineering Pune (COEP) Technological University is a unitary public university of the Government of Maharashtra, situated in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Established in 1854, it is the 3rd oldest engineering institute in India, after College of Engineering, Guindy (1794) and IIT Roorkee (1847). The students and alumni are colloquially referred to as COEPians.  On 23 June 2022, Government of Maharashtra issued a notification regarding conversion of the college into an independent technological university. On 24 March 2022, both the houses of the state government passed the CoEP Technological University bill, which has conferred a unitary state university status on the institute.

History

The institution was started in July 1854, as the "Poona Engineering and Mechanical School", to train public works department (PWD) officials and was housed in Bhawanipeth, Poona in three houses for teaching purpose and a separate house for principal to train subordinate officers in the Public Works Department. In July 1857, Henry Coke was given the charge of the institute. Admission was open to all, irrespective of nationality or caste. Good proficiency in English and basic knowledge of Mathematics were a prerequisite for getting admitted to the institute. The process of admission required that the aspiring candidate apply to the nearest government English school, to whom the entrance examination papers were handed over. The headmaster would take the examination on a date deemed convenient to him and submit the answer sheets to Henry Coke, the in-charge of the mechanical school. After examining the papers, Coke would notify the headmaster of the school with the names of candidates who were deemed fit for admission. Scholarships of ₹ 6 were offered per month after a period of six months of training in the mechanical school for fifteen students. The courses offered included Mathematics, Drawing, Surveying and levelling, building and construction and setting out works on the ground. The course would run for a period of two years.

Later on, in the year 1865, the school was renamed to "Poona Civil Engineering College". The foundation stone of the new college was laid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir Bartle Frere, who was to become the Vice-Chancellor of the University, on 5 August 1865. In June of the following year, Theodore Cooke M.A., was appointed the Principal. He went on to hold the office for the next 28 years. It started a course in Licensed and civil engineering (LCE) and trained masons and overseers. Later it secured affiliation to the Bombay university. The course was revised in 1886 and the minimum criteria required for admission was raised from Matriculation to the then Previous Examination.

In 1879 two new classes, an Agricultural class and a Forest class, were added to the college, and the name of the college was changed from "The Poona Civil Engineering College " to "The College of Science".

In 1909, the LCE was converted into the BE degree and the first batch of students passed out in 1912. All non-engineering courses were stopped by 1911, transferring the Bachelor of Science degree to the "Science Institute of Bombay" and subsequently in the year 1911, the name was changed to the "Government College of Engineering, Poona".

The institution was initially affiliated to the University of Bombay (now Mumbai) for a degree of Licentiate in Civil Engineering known as LCE in 1858. The certificate course was converted into a civil engineering degree course in 1908 and degree programs in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering were started in 1912 and 1932, respectively. After the University of Poona was established in 1948, the college became affiliated to the new university. In 1968, the three-year degree was extended to 4 years constituting 8 semesters.

In 2003, the institute was granted complete autonomy by the State Government of Maharashtra, thus giving it the freedom to set its own curriculum and manage its own finances. The institute was renamed "Pune Institute of Engineering and Technology". This was soon changed to present "College of Engineering, Pune" in 2006. With permanent affiliation to the Savitribai Phule Pune University, the institute now is an autonomous engineering school. This has been the biggest change as far as pedagogy at COEP is concerned.

In a bid to boost research in engineering and postdoctoral research, the College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) was granted an additional campus on government land located in chikli Pcmc. This extended campus is having area of 40 acres. In academic year 2020-21 institute also commenced full time degree course in management under faculty of Management.

Campus
The campus of COEP is spread over 36 acres. The campus is divided into four parts North Campus, South Campus, Hostel campus and Playground, due to roadways in between.

The main building is the present day administrative building of the College. It houses the Director, the Dean Academic Affairs, the Dean Student Affairs, the Gymkhana, the Examination cell and other various important administrative heads of the college. The building is almost three floors tall with a base floor length of 18 meters and a width of 9 metres. The building was refurbished in 2012.

Admissions
The admissions are conducted on the basis of the marks secured in Maharashtra CET and HSC board combined. These admissions are conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) through the Centralized Admission Process (CAP). Several admissions to direct second year of BTech course are also conducted for those candidates who have completed Diploma in Engineering at different polytechnic institutes in the state of Maharashtra. These admissions are conducted through the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) by DTE itself.

The M.tech admissions are on the basis of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the seven old IITs and the IISc.

The college also provides Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes in various fields. Department of Applied Sciences is a recognised PhD research centre in the subjects of Environmental Sciences and Chemistry.

Rankings
COEP was ranked 12 th among government engineering colleges in India by Outlook India in 2022. The NIRF ranked it 73rd in the engineering ranking in 2023 and 151-200 band overall.

Regatta
Regetta is an annual regatta hosted by Students of the College of Engineering, Pune. Since its inception in 1928, it has showcased around 165 boats, notably the Eighter, which is one of the oldest boats. The 95th edition of Regatta was held on 26 March 2023. Unlike a Regatta which means a collection of boat races, COEP Boat Club's Regatta is a show of various kinds of boats, kayaks, punts, shell boats and scull boats. The events in this show are Telematches, Kayak Ballet, Shell Games, Punt Formation, Mashaal Dance and the Arrow formation.

MindSpark
MindSpark is the annual technical festival hosted by the college and established in 2007. The idea behind MindSpark originated from the need to unite various departmental level festivals that were scattered across the academic calendar. It features about 50 events across various disciplines of engineering and has been backed by the support of industrial sponsors who also associate with COEP for placement. This event is usually scheduled in an odd semester (around September) and is of 3 days (usually weekend).

ZEST
ZEST is the annual sports festival of COEP Technological University carrying the legacy since its beginning in the year 2002. More than 70 colleges across the country participate in the same. ZEST nurtures the idea "For the students, by the students". ZEST is a 3-day sporting extravaganza in which 20+ sports are played on a large-covered COEP Playground. It is a battlefield where there are no limits to challenges. In addition to this, ZEST hosts flagship events like Cyclothon, Marathon, Self-Defence Workshops, Fitness Sessions, and Sportsdeck Sessions. ZEST is graced with eminent chief guests like Kedar Jadhav, Geeta Phogat, Sandeep Singh, Lalita Babar, Rahi Sarnobat, Sultan Dange, Milkha Singh, Shireen Limaye, Aslam Inamdar, Mohit Goyat, Yogesh Nikam.

Impressions

Impressions is the annual cultural festival of CoEP, which is held every year in the 2nd week of December and lasts for 3 days. Impressions was formed as a platform "For the Artists, By the Artists", to provide opportunities for people from the fields of Dance, Music, Theater, Art, and Fashion to display their talent. The events span over six main modules, namely – Dance, Music, Arts and Crafts, Dramatics, Photography, and Writing.

CSI COEP Student Chapter
The Computer Society of India (CSI) Student Chapter of College of Engineering Pune (COEP), established in October 2018 is the college's largest technical chapter. It organizes a number of technical activities including workshops, competitions, technical symposiums, guest lectures etc. for its student members. Under the guidance of Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology COEP, the student chapter has over 300 members and is run by a Core Team and faculty from the department.

Team Nemesis Racing (Baja SAE)
Baja SAE is a world-wide event which comprises designing, fabricating, assembling an all-terrain four wheeler vehicle and running it on a specially prepared torturous track in a grueling competition for four hours. COEP's team is called Team Nemesis Racing.

COEP won overall championship at BAJA 2017 competition held at Pithampur, near Indore at the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project. The team also won the Best Acceleration, the Raftaar award, Computer-aided engineering award, Best Build Quality, Endurance winner awards.

BAJA 2015 witnessed COEP starting at the pole position in the race consecutively for the fourth time by being the fastest vehicle. COEP received a total of following 9 awards in BAJA competition 2015, Overall-1st, Durability −1st, Acceleration-1st, Hill Climb-1st, Raftaar-1st, Innovation-2nd, CAE −2nd, Build Quality- 2nd, Safest Vehicle −2nd.

BAJA 2016 was held at Pithampur, Indore on 21 February 2016. COEP started at the pole position in the race consecutively for the fifth time by being the fastest vehicle. Out of the 14 award categories, COEP won 11 awards in BAJA competition 2016 retaining the Overall Championship.

COEP won overall championship at BAJA 2017 competition creating a hat trick of records. In the 10th edition of Mahindra BAJA, a total of 415 entries applied for the event from 185 colleges that participated at a virtual stage, out of which 150 teams were selected for m- BAJA, while 35 teams for eBAJA. In the final round or the endurance test, 118 teams participated in the competition which was held from 16 to 21 February 2017 at the NATRIP facility in Pithampur, Indore. Out of the 12 award categories, COEP won 7 awards in BAJA competition 2017 retaining the Overall Championship.

COEP robotics team
COEP's Robotics Team is represented by the Robot Study Circle(RSC). The Club has industrial collaboration with Siemens PLM as a title sponsor, Janatics Pneumatics, Schmalz India, Pepperl & Fuchs, and Robolab Technologies. Members of RSC are members of the first ever institute student chapter of THE ROBOTICS SOCIETY established in India at College of Engineering Pune. The robotics team has a number of awards and in 2017 team won the national ABU Robocon, going on to represent India in International Robocon held at Tokyo, Japan. RSC placed 6th.

COEP satellite team
The satellite team also known as CSAT is CoEP's satellite initiative. They worked on project Swayam a 1-U picosatellite which was launched by ISRO on 22 June 2016. After the successful launch of Swayam, CSAT is now working on its next mission: an experiment for alternate means of space travel with the help of solar sails.

Aerial Robot Study Circle
The Aerial Robot Study Circle (ARSC) is a student club at COEP Technological University dedicated to advancing aerial robotics. Driven to build drones for competitions and real-world applications, ARSC routinely organizes seminars, invites industry experts, and competes in national/international contests like AeroTHON. Key activities include constructing specialized drones, hosting robotics events, honoring national occasions, and delivering impactful societal projects.

COEP's Free Software Users Group
The COEP's Free Software Users Group (COFSUG) is a volunteer group at the COEP Technological University that promotes the use and development of free and open source software. COFSUG runs the FOSS Lab, FOSS Server, COEP Moodle, COEP LDAP Server, and COEP Wiki. The group carries out activities like installation festivals to teach GNU/Linux, workshops on Linux administration, Python, Drupal, and FOSS technologies, promoting software development under the GNU GPLv3 license, Freedom Fridays to spread FOSS philosophy, hosting the Fedora Users and Developers Conference 2011, Android app development workshops, spoken tutorials program from IIT Bombay, and summer coding projects for students on FOSS contributions.

Participation in Guinness World Records
The college has made three entries so far in the Guinness World Record books. It holds the record for "Most people skipping on the same rope", which still stands as the world record and "The longest painting by numbers" and for "Most number of people solving the Rubik's cube".

Notable alumni

 * Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1861–1962), recipient of Bharat Ratna and Knighthood, eminent engineer and statesman
 * Thakkar Bapa, also known as Mritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, was an Indian social worker dedicated to upliftment of tribal and Harijan communities in Gujarat. He played key roles in founding organizations like Bhil Seva Mandal and Harijan Sevak Sangh. Thakkar Bapa's extensive travels and efforts spanned across India, earning him the title "Father of Harijans".
 * Thomas Kailath, emeritus professor of engineering at Stanford University, winner of the IEEE Shannon Award and US National Medal of Science
 * C. Kumar N. Patel, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, inventor of the carbon-dioxide laser, winner of the United States National Medal of Science
 * Baburao Govindrao Shirke, Founder of B. G. Shirke & Company
 * Nitin Paranjpe, President of the Foods & Refreshment Division of Unilever
 * Laxman Narasimhan, an Indian-American business executive, who is CEO of Starbucks Corporation, and has previously served as CEO of Reckitt Benckiser, and Chief Commercial Officer at PepsiCo.
 * Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director of Bajaj Auto: One of the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India
 * Sumant Moolgaokar, Padma Bhushan, he was an Indian industrialist, known as architect of Tata Motors. He was the chief executive of Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO). He also remained Vice-Chairman of Tata Steel and served as non-executive chairman of Maruti Suzuki.
 * Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group and developer of a high-speed femto-camera that captures pictures of light.
 * Jaydeep Kulkarni, Assistant Professor at University of Texas, Austin, Fellow of Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering, Fellow of AMD Chair in Computer Engineering
 * Sandeep Johri, technology executive and serial entrepreneur, CEO of Tricentis
 * Vijay Kelkar, Padma Vibhushan, Advisor to the Finance Minister, Government of India in the rank of a Minister of State, Chairman, National Stock Exchange of India
 * Aravind Joshi, emeritus professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
 * Lila Poonawalla, Padma Shri, an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, humanitarian. First Woman Engineer graduating from the Mechanical stream.
 * Sanjay Govind Dhande, Padma Shri, an Indian engineer and educationist. He was director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
 * Suhas V Patankar, pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Finite volume method. Notable as the co-developer of the SIMPLE algorithm in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
 * Milind Mulick, Indian watercolour painter, teacher and author
 * Gaur Gopal Das, an Indian monk, motivational speaker and lifestyle coach.
 * Vikas Kharage, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. 34th rank in the country and 1st in Maharashtra of 1994 batch. Recipient of 'COEP Abhiman' Alumni Award.
 * Vinayak Pai, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tata Projects

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KXTX-TV

KXTX-TV (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving as the Dallas–Fort Worth market's outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside Fort Worth–licensed NBC outlet KXAS-TV (channel 5). Both stations share studios at the CentrePort Business Park in Fort Worth; KXTX-TV's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

Channel 39 in Dallas began broadcasting as KDTV on February 5, 1968. It was built by the Doubleday Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of book publisher Doubleday & Co., and operated as an English-language independent station emphasizing business news and sports coverage. It struggled to gain ratings traction in the market, and by 1973, it was the only unprofitable station Doubleday owned. As a result, Doubleday sought to give the station away to a non-profit entity. The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which had just entered the market on channel 33, acquired KDTV and moved its station, KXTX-TV, to channel 39, occupying channel 39's studios on Harry Hines Boulevard. CBN primarily programmed religious and family-friendly entertainment shows, though it began to broaden the appeal of its program lineup in the early 1980s to be more competitive in the market. It attempted to sell the station twice in the decade, but no sale eventuated.

Beginning in June 1994, KXAS-TV began operating and programming KXTX-TV under a local marketing agreement. Channel 39 began serving as overflow for pre-empted NBC programming, and for six months in 1995 it was the market's affiliate of The WB. Beginning in 1996, the station aired Texas Rangers baseball games as part of a wide-ranging contract between the team and KXAS-TV owner LIN Media. LIN was purchased in 1997 by private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst; one of the firm's principals, Tom Hicks, bought the Rangers and also owned the Dallas Stars hockey team. The next year, LIN transferred its operating agreement to a new sports business controlled by Hicks, Southwest Sports Group. Southwest Sports Group analyzed using channel 39 as the centerpiece of a regional sports network for Rangers and Stars games but ultimately decided to sell the teams' media rights to Fox Sports Southwest.

In 2000, Southwest Sports acquired the license from CBN and immediately attempted to sell KXTX-TV to Pappas Telecasting, which would have used it as a key station in its planned Azteca América network. Financing difficulties delayed the network's launch and caused the deal to collapse. Telemundo then stepped in to buy KXTX, which replaced KFWD as the network's outlet in the Metroplex on January 1, 2002. At the same time, NBC bought Telemundo; channel 39 moved from Dallas to KXAS-TV's Fort Worth studios in 2006. The station produces local Spanish-language newscasts as well as a morning news program seen on Telemundo stations across Texas.

KDTV
On February 1, 1966, Trigg-Vaughn Stations Inc. applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new TV station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 39 in Dallas. Trigg-Vaughn owned radio stations in several Western states as well as two TV stations in Texas: KROD-TV in El Paso and KOSA-TV in Odessa. The FCC granted Trigg-Vaughn the permit on June 2. KDTV was a station on paper only when Trigg-Vaughn sold its entire station group to Doubleday Broadcasting Company, a new division of book publisher Doubleday & Co., in February 1967.

Construction of KDTV took place during 1967 and early 1968. The station would broadcast from a tower in Cedar Hill, the primary TV transmission site in the region, and maintain studios at 3900 Harry Hines Boulevard near downtown Dallas. KDTV's construction also coincided with a boom in new UHF stations in the Metroplex; two additional stations, KFWT-TV on channel 21 and KMEC-TV on channel 33, went on the air in late 1967.

KDTV began broadcasting on February 5, 1968. The new station's programming consisted broadly of three elements. During the day, KDTV offered Stock Market Observer, a rolling block of business news and information for investors, using equipment developed by Scantlin Electronics. Scantlin also supplied a wire of stories from The Wall Street Journal for the program, which first began airing on a station in Chicago the year before. The station also featured a variety of local sports events; Frank Filesi served as its first sports director. In the first year, channel 39 carried Dallas Chaparrals basketball, Dallas Blackhawks hockey, Dallas–Fort Worth Spurs baseball, and Dallas Tornado soccer. In addition, KDTV offered public affairs show 3900 Harry Hines and alternative news coverage alongside syndicated shows and movies.

On May 7, 1969, a windstorm knocked down the original Cedar Hill tower; KDTV was off the air for a total of twelve days; the replacement tower was completed in late October. The station continued with its mix of programming for several years. In 1972, it was the first television broadcast partner of the new Texas Rangers baseball team, leading a 12-station TV network and airing 26 Sunday and Wednesday contests; however, the team moved its games to KDFW-TV in 1973.

Channel 39 struggled under Doubleday. The station failed to make headway against Fort Worth–based KTVT (channel 11), the primary independent station in the region; by 1972, it had four percent of the market, while KTVT commanded 17 percent. It lost nearly $2 million in each of its first two years of broadcasting; while the other Doubleday Broadcasting stations were said to be "substantially profitable" by 1972, KDTV was the lone exception. A 1972 feature on Doubleday & Co. in The New York Times cited Dallas business leaders in finding that the station lacked leadership and broadcasting expertise in management. The stock market programming, which had been a fixture of KDTV since it debuted, was discontinued at the end of March 1973; Turner, who had left as general manager of channel 39 the year before, bought the rights to the program and formed the National Business Network to market it.

Doubleday donation
As a result of KDTV's poor financial condition and a failure to sell the station, Doubleday began negotiating to transfer it to a non-profit organization, with four groups vying over the course of June 1973 to receive the donation. Of these, two were educational broadcasters. The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) had been airing instructional programs over KERA-TV (channel 13), and the district entered into talks with Doubleday. If DISD acquired the station, it would have moved all of its programs for schools to channel 39, which would deprive KERA-TV of a vital source of revenue. KERA-TV itself expressed interest in acquiring channel 39, not only as a secondary outlet for its programming but also to move its television production facility to 3900 Harry Hines and leave its existing studios for use by the then-planned KERA FM. However, in the donation from Doubleday, KERA would also have had to take on $1.2 million in KDTV's programming contracts, consisting of programming incompatible with its public television format, and a 20-year studio lease. Nonetheless, KERA intensively lobbied for the channel, going as far as to enlist the help of journalist and PBS show host Bill Moyers to present its proposal.

The other two entrants each had religious orientation. The Trinity Foundation had been formed as an outgrowth of a recent prayer breakfast; president Ole Anthony told The Dallas Morning News, "Our purpose is communicating in any way possible the love, grace and sufficiency of Jesus Christ." Trinity also proposed giving airtime to Dallas schools for educational programs and nighttime programming to reach "unchurched" viewers. The other applicant was the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which had recently entered Dallas by buying from Berean Fellowship and reactivating the then-silent channel 33, which returned to air as KXTX-TV on April 16. Much like CBN's two other TV outlets—WYAH-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia, and WHAE-TV in Atlanta—the station aired a lineup of general entertainment fare during the daytime and early evening and shifting to religious shows, including CBN's own The 700 Club, in prime time and on Sundays.

On June 27, CBN announced that it had been chosen to take on the KDTV facilities, programming and contractual obligations, and channel 39 license; CBN founder Pat Robertson estimated the network would pay $2.9 million over 10 years, nearly half of that in film contracts from KDTV, and announced its plans to merge KXTX-TV's staff and programming with that of KDTV in the channel 39 studios. Robertson promised that the transaction represented "not the demise of one station but a combination of two". CBN also declared an intention to transfer the channel 33 facility and license to another nonprofit. This never came to pass; instead, channel 33 went dark, and on November 14, 1973, KXTX-TV moved to channel 39 on the former KDTV license. The network had previously announced that when the combination became effective, the merged channel 39 would expand its broadcast day.

CBN maintained a generally conservative editorial and program policy at its stations. This was typified in its 1979 decision to remove evangelist Ernest Angley from the KXTX-TV programming lineup after five years. Station management reported that they had received multiple comments about Angley's style, which station manager Roger Baerwolf called "controversial" and "effeminate".

Seeking a broader audience
At the end of the 1970s, KXTX-TV began broadening its program offerings in an attempt to reach a wider audience and shed an image that channel 39 exclusively provided religious programming. For one week in May 1979, the station aired a television simulcast of Ron Chapman's morning show on KVIL radio, which was scheduled immediately after an airing of CBN's The 700 Club. It also beefed up its coverage of sports; Filesi returned to channel 39 as sports coordinator and led an increase in live sports coverage as well as a new monthly sports anthology program, TV 39 Sports Magazine, hosted by sportscaster Frank Glieber. However, CBN's policy of barring alcohol advertising hindered the station as a sports player. In launching the Independent Network News on channel 39 in June 1980, Baerwolf noted that the changes were also designed to help the station be a competitive independent in the market. Most notably, the station advertised its new turn with billboards heralding the arrival of reruns of Wonder Woman.

The station served the teens and children's market with some of the most popular syndicated shows in television among those audiences. It ventured as far as to air the syndicated The Uncle Floyd Show in late-night hours in 1982; the syndicator provided a special edit to conform with channel 39's content standards. However, KXTX-TV's deemphasis of religion—by 1984, The 700 Club was airing just once a day in prime time—left a lane open for a new, more purely religious television station in the Metroplex. In 1984, Eldred Thomas started KLTJ-TV (channel 49), a Christian station using Trinity Broadcasting Network programming. Thomas told Ed Bark of The Dallas Morning News, "Had [channel 39] remained Christian, we would not have started another Christian station."

In the 1980s, the market swelled locally and contracted regionally. In a six-month span, three new commercial independent stations went on the air: KNBN (the revived channel 33, later KRLD-TV and KDAF) in 1980 and KTXA (channel 21) and KTWS-TV (channel 27, later KDFI) in 1981. These new startups joined KTVT and KXTX-TV to give Dallas–Fort Worth five independent stations, the most of any market in the country; in this battle, channels 27 and 39 lagged in their available cash to buy programs. KXTX-TV, with its vast regional cable carriage, began to lose it in the early 1980s due to changes in copyright law and other factors. Beginning in January 1983, the Copyright Royalty Tribunal raised the rates that cable companies had to pay for importing out-of-market signals by 375 percent. However, KXTX was somewhat insulated from this issue because the FCC continued to classify it as a "specialty channel" due to its religious program orientation. When the FCC moved to reclassify KXTX as a conventional independent effective at the end of 1990, the station was dropped from cable systems in cities including Wichita Falls, Longview, and Marshall. For other reasons, KXTX lost its coverage in more far-flung places, including Tulsa, Oklahoma—where it was replaced by co-owned CBN Cable in 1982 —and Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1988.

In 1984, CBN—renamed Continental Broadcasting Network—put KXTX-TV and its Continental Productions syndication division on the market. The move came at a time when several new-to-market UHF stations in the Metroplex had been sold, including KNBN-TV in 1983 and KTWS-TV and KTXA in 1984. However, CBN withdrew the station when bids came in lower than expected. Two years later, citing a drop in projected donations, the network tried again to sell the three stations it still owned: KXTX-TV, WYAH-TV, and WXNE-TV in Boston. In its second attempt to sell channel 39, CBN was hampered by expensive, long-term syndicated program contracts that caused interest in the station to lag. After WXNE-TV was sold to the Fox network, Family Group Broadcasting of Tampa, Florida, bid on WYAH and KXTX. A sale was announced in October, but within a month, Family Group rescinded its offer, citing changes in tax law that made the deal impossible to finance via a stock sale. Shortly after, the market for independent stations grew colder, particularly in the wake of the bankruptcy filing of the Grant Broadcasting System.

During the 1980s, the station produced World Class Championship Wrestling, featuring Fritz Von Erich; the wrestling promotion, at its height in the early part of the decade, aired in more than 60 markets and in Japan, Argentina, and the Middle East. Wrestling was the station's biggest single ratings draw, and Robertson accepted its place in channel 39's lineup because it also featured the highest advertising rates on the station. In the spring of 1986, KXTX reached an agreement with WFAA-TV (channel 8) to carry ABC prime time programming preempted by that station; this arrangement was short-lived as a result of a situation on April 16 involving delays in ABC prime time programming due to a special report. The station continued to specialize in family-friendly programs—CBN described the lineup in official material as "programs which can be viewed by people of all ages without their becoming offended"—and weekend western movies.

Local marketing agreement with KXAS-TV
On June 2, 1994, LIN Broadcasting and its local station, Fort Worth-based NBC affiliate KXAS-TV (channel 5), took over advertising sales and programming duties for channel 39 under a local marketing agreement (LMA). It was the second LMA to take effect in the Metroplex in two weeks, after a pact that saw KDFW-TV begin programming KDFI-TV. Immediately, channel 39 added rebroadcasts of KXAS-TV newscasts and the syndicated Bill Nye the Science Guy to its program schedule. The agreement quickly saw use during the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, when KXAS shunted NBC News coverage of the trial to KXTX in order to carry its regular early evening newscasts, and during the NFL preseason so channel 5 could air a Dallas Cowboys game while KXTX picked up NBC's Thursday night prime time lineup.

Channel 39 played a minor role in a major affiliation switch in the Dallas–Fort Worth market. In 1993, Gaylord Broadcasting, owner of KTVT, had agreed to affiliate that station with The WB, a new national TV network to launch in January 1995. However, in May 1994, Fox announced that it would affiliate with 12 New World Communications-owned TV stations, including KDFW-TV, which had been the CBS affiliate. Gaylord soon began receiving overtures from CBS to affiliate with them. After exchanging lawsuits with The WB over its verbal commitment to that network, the company reached a deal to affiliate KTVT and KSTW in Tacoma, Washington, with CBS. Fox sold the station it owned in Dallas, KDAF, to Renaissance Communications; Renaissance announced its intention to pick up the WB affiliation in the market. However, it was not able to do so until July, leaving The WB to air on channel 39 for its first six months.

KTVT's affiliation switch to CBS shook loose a series of local sports rights. Channel 11's contract with the Texas Rangers ended after the 1995 season, and the station also opted under its contract not to show games were the season to start with replacement players amid an ongoing strike. LIN signed a deal under which KXTX would have aired 89 of the 90 games destined for KTVT, with Opening Day telecast on KXAS. This contingency did not come to pass; instead, channel 39 provided a home for displaced CBS prime time programs that KTVT preempted for baseball. However, LIN and the Rangers kept in contact, and ahead of the 1996 season, LIN signed a sweeping five-year deal with the team. Not only would KXAS and KXTX air at least 90 games, but LIN would take over production and distribution of the telecasts and build a $10 million production facility at The Ballpark in Arlington. LIN surprised observers by not selling a cable package to Prime Sports Southwest; instead, it set a lineup of 15 games on KXAS and 123 on KXTX.

The Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, also displaced by KTVT switching to CBS, initially moved to KDFI, but after one season, the team signed with KXTX-TV to air 35 games. The Mavericks remained on channel 39 through 1999, when they signed with new independent station KSTR-TV (channel 49).

On October 12, 1996, an accident caused by a crew installing a new antenna on the structure resulted in the collapse of the station's 1,550 ft transmitter tower in Cedar Hill. The tower held the antennas for KXTX-TV and four local FM radio stations. Channel 39 was off the air for eight days before returning using an auxiliary antenna on KXAS-TV's tower. LIN and the tower services company sued each other in the wake of the collapse; the two companies reached an out-of-court settlement in 1998.

Hicks and Southwest Sports Group management
In August 1997, Dallas-based investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (Hicks, Muse) announced plans to acquire LIN Television for $1.7 billion. The chief executive of Hicks, Muse was Tom Hicks, who also personally owned the Dallas Stars hockey team. Two months later, LIN received a surprise higher offer from Raycom Media; Hicks, Muse raised its offer to $1.9 billion, which was accepted. The raised offer was possible because NBC had agreed to join Hicks Muse in a joint venture, majority-owned by NBC, that would own KXAS-TV and KNSD in San Diego. This transaction was shortly followed in January 1998 with a deal for Hicks to buy the Rangers, which was unanimously approved by other Major League Baseball owners in June.

Hicks, Muse opted to combine LIN with Chancellor Media, an owner of radio stations also controlled by the firm, in a deal announced in July 1998. In a simultaneous transaction announced the same day, LIN agreed to contribute its agreement to operate KXTX-TV to a new company to be owned by Hicks, Muse principals; the firm would own the Rangers, the Stars, and partial interests in the Ballpark in Arlington and the to-be-built American Airlines Center. It also held an option to acquire KXTX from CBN, which still owned the station, for a nominal sum. The new company was primarily controlled by Hicks, who kept his sports ventures separate from the activities of Hicks, Muse.

Under what became known as Southwest Sports Group, KXTX was envisioned as the centerpiece in a broadcasting and cable venture that included a planned regional sports network to carry the Rangers, Stars, and other programming. Hicks hoped to find a established media partner, such as Fox Sports, ESPN, or CNN, to aid in programming and distribution of the Southwest Sports service. As early as February 1998, some advertising buyers had noted to Mediaweek that KXTX could have a strategic advantage over a cable-only service because cable penetration in the market was well below the national average. Ahead of the 1999–2000 NHL season, Hicks moved the over-the-air rights for the Stars from KDFI to KXTX, offering 30 games.

However, within a year, Southwest Sports Group instead decided to pivot. In September 1999, Hicks signed a $300 million deal with Fox Sports Southwest—the former Prime Sports—granting it cable rights for the Rangers and Stars for the next 15 years, concluding it made no sense to compete with the existing Fox-owned regional sports network. With this agreement, Southwest Sports Group was left to ponder the future of its other media holdings—SSG Productions, the former LIN Productions, and KXTX-TV. After the FCC legalized duopolies—single ownership of two stations in a TV market—the value of the station rose, and Southwest Sports Group began fielding offers before entering exclusive negotiations with a single bidder. In addition, it sold the over-the-air broadcast rights for the Rangers and Stars to Fox Sports Net, which would air the games on Fox-owned KDFW-TV and KDFI.

Aborted sale to Pappas Telecasting
In July 2000, Southwest Sports Group announced it would sell KXTX-TV to California-based Pappas Telecasting Companies for $85.55 million. The deal also included Southwest Sports paying $1 million to acquire the station outright from CBN. The transaction also brought to light some of the conditions under which CBN had outsourced station operations since 1994, notably that the station had to air The 700 Club at 8 a.m. daily and that it had to be programmed in English until May 31, 2001. Robertson had founded the Christian Coalition of America, which advocated that English should be the official language of the United States.

The English-language clause was particularly pertinent given Pappas's programming plans for channel 39. The station would broadcast a new network, Azteca América, being formed as a joint venture of Pappas and TV Azteca of Mexico. The KXTX studios on Harry Hines Boulevard would become Azteca América's network operations center; the network was planned to debut in June 2001. Work had progressed far enough that the Azteca América logo was emblazoned on a satellite dish at the site.

Even though the FCC approved of the deal in November 2000, Pappas's plans to launch Azteca América ran into a series of difficulties, primarily economic. Pappas also had an unfinished deal to acquire KDBC-TV in El Paso, which lingered, and walked away from a transaction to acquire KZTV in Corpus Christi and KVTV in Laredo. These stations were all CBS affiliates; in El Paso, national advertisers shied away from KDBC because they were not sure if it was going to switch from English to Spanish, while KZTV had a CBS affiliation agreement that extended until 2007, impeding any change in network. The network also suffered in its station acquisition strategy. Rival Univision purchased USA Broadcasting, taking with it major-market stations that could have aided its national reach; meanwhile, Azteca América walked away from a deal to buy WSAH in the New York City market. This reduced coverage caused analysts to be skeptical of the network's acceptance among national advertisers. Additionally, economic conditions soured, jeopardizing the high-yield debt market where the network was to have raised $300 million.

In late May 2001, the Pappas acquisition fell through, and Hicks began looking for another buyer.

As a Telemundo station
In the wake of the Pappas–Azteca América deal falling through, Telemundo, another Spanish-language TV network, entered into discussions with Hicks; on June 27, 2001, Southwest Sports Group announced it would sell KXTX-TV to Telemundo for $65 million. With the deal, Telemundo would have a total of 10 owned-and-operated stations, including in the eight largest Hispanic television markets in the country. Telemundo's existing affiliate in the Metroplex was KFWD (channel 52), a Fort Worth–licensed, Irving-based station that had signed on with Telemundo programming in 1988.

More than three months later, on October 11, NBC purchased Telemundo from a consortium of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Liberty Media, and private equity firms BV Capital, Bastion Capital and Council Tree Communications for $2.68 billion, including the existing sale agreement for KXTX in the transaction. On January 1, 2002, KXTX began broadcasting Telemundo programming; KFWD became an English-language independent station. KXTX debuted local Spanish-language newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. in April 2002. It continued to operate from Dallas until March 2006, when it moved in with KXAS-TV in its studios in Fort Worth.

NBC's parent company, NBCUniversal, announced a restructuring of its Telemundo local newscasts in the Southwest in 2006. The plan centered on KXTX by consolidating the Telemundo newscasts in Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and San Jose into one news program presented from Fort Worth. The hubbing of local news production attracted criticism from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, including formal statements against NBCUniversal decrying the move. The centralized news plan began to unwind in late 2009. In February 2010, KXTX began airing separate 5 and 10 p.m. local newscasts again. In 2011, KXTX added a monthly public affairs program; shortly after, it began producing weekend evening newscasts.

New studios in Fort Worth and news expansion
In June 2012, NBCUniversal announced plans to construct a new 75,000 sqft facility in Fort Worth, located at the CentrePort Business Park on the former site of Amon Carter Field, to house KXAS, KXTX, and NBCUniversal's other local operations, including the Dallas news bureau operated by NBC News. Construction of the facility began that month and was completed in September 2013, with station operations migrating in phases over the course of October. The facility incorporates three control rooms and a combined media asset management center and newsroom production suite for managing and editing content.

In the years after moving into the new facility, KXTX expanded local news in line with the other Telemundo-owned stations. On September 18, 2014, Telemundo announced that it would expand its early-evening newscast to one hour, with the addition of a half-hour program at 4:30 p.m., as part of a groupwide news expansion across Telemundo's owned-and-operated stations. A 4 p.m. half-hour was added in 2016, again as part of a national expansion in the group; similarly, a midday newscast was introduced in January 2018 in Dallas–Fort Worth and nine other cities.

Telemundo stations in Texas began airing a statewide morning newscast, Noticias Telemundo Texas, on September 26, 2022. The program is presented from Fort Worth. As part of a partnership with Gray Television, five of Gray's Telemundo affiliates—in Amarillo, Lubbock, Tyler, Waco, and Wichita Falls—simulcast KXTX's 4 p.m. local news as a lead-in to locally produced newscasts at 5 p.m.

Technical information
KXTX began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 40 on August 1, 2002. KXTX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, at 10:35 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station continued to transmit its digital signal on channel 40 until June 21, 2019, when it moved to channel 36 as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.

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How comes non of the units of Hello!Project have pictures? Most bands and minor celebrities have pictures on their main wiki page. What about H!P? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enjo (talk • contribs) 14:40, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

All wrong
This page is all wrong now. I think I'm going to cry. --74.57.253.109 (talk) 12:31, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Random stuff
Perhaps, could someone give a short explainantion of what the Hello! Project is, exactly?

Also, Futsal is not a common American term. There should be a brief explaination or a link to Futsal. --169.233.6.222 19:15, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Diagram
Perhaps a sort of Rock Family Tree could be included in this article.--Darrelljon 18:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Clean Up
I cleaned up the current group line up and the graduated members/former groups. It is correct + organized now :) Skawt 07:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

reqdiagram
I don't really see how this article could have a diagram so I'm removing this request. If you re-add the template, please add some specifics about what kind of diagram you want. --pfctdayelise (talk) 16:46, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Pro Egg
The link for Hello! Pro Egg redirects here. Is it supposed to do that? Dreamfar (talk) 19:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It is not supposed to; there is no actual article for Hello Pro Egg so the redirect page should be deleted. ☆ Charles Nguyễn  15:13, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Disbanded Groups/Updates??
Under disbanded groups, you have "Champuru groups" in it. Champuru groups are High-King, Aa!, ZYX-a, Tanpopo#, zoku v-u-den, Shin Minimoni, and PetitmoniV, all of which (or at least Aa!, ZYX-a, and High King) are all active. They should be added to the line-up of current groups. They aren't main groups like Morning Musume, Berryz Kobo, C-ute, Smileage, Mano Erina or Buono!, but they should still be added.

Also, I'm kinda disappointed about the updates on everything Hello!Project-related. Alot has happened to and in Hello!Project since Momusu's 40th single, which is where the History section stops. Even the updates on groups like Berryz, C-ute, Smileage, and Buono! (especailly Buono!) pages are terrible. Is anyone actually keeping up with H!P, its groups and members, and updating Wikipedia at all? Lol I always thought Wikipedia was the best place to go for info, but when it comes to H!P, its groups and members, obviously not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.167.90 (talk) 00:04, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello! Project Leader
The new leader is Michishige Sayumi as stated on http://helloproject.wikia.com/wiki/Hello!_Project. I have no idea how to change it otherwise i would have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.10.63 (talk) 04:56, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Wikia is a not a reliable source. --Moscow Connection (talk) 18:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
I propose to merge Hello Pro Kenshusei into Hello! Project OR Up-Front Promotion. Page is mostly BLP trivia with non-notable current members with little to no sources. Page is centered on trainee members (AKA members who have not officially debuted); debuted/departed members already have their own page. Discography can be merged with Hello! Project. lullabying (talk) 22:16, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have added Hello! Project Kids to the merger discussion. As a group, they have not had any notable activity or charting music before splitting off to Berryz Kobo and Cute (Japanese idol group). Information about their pre-debut is best summarized in the members' individual articles, Berryz Kobo, and Cute (Japanese idol group). lullabying (talk) 21:01, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I am withdrawing WP:MERGE proposal to Hello! Project as I feel submitting to WP:AfD is more appropriate to decide due to notability. lullabying (talk) 20:19, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

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KUVN-DT

KUVN-DT (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Garland, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Irving-licensed UniMás owned-and-operated station KSTR-DT (channel 49). The two stations share studios on Bryan Street in downtown Dallas; KUVN-DT's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

Prior history of UHF channel 23 in Dallas–Fort Worth
Channel 23 was originally allocated to Dallas proper. The UHF Television Co.—a coalition of local oilmen—had applied for channel 23 construction permits in Dallas and Houston; the permits were granted in 1953, but they were never built and would be deleted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1955.

As an educational station
The Richardson Independent School District then signed on an educational television station on channel 23 on February 29, 1960, KRET-TV. It was the first television station in the United States to be owned by a school district (beating KERA-TV, which was founded by the Dallas Independent School District, by eight months). KRET only broadcast on weekdays during the school year for only two hours a day initially, before expanding to the entire school day. Costing only $75,000 to build, it operated out of Richardson Junior High School before moving to Richardson High School in 1963. Although operating on a full-service license, the station only provided a signal up to 20 mi from its transmitter. KRET-TV ceased operations in May 1970 and, on August 31, was transitioned to the "TAGER" closed-circuit television system used for high school and college telecourses; the broadcast license was returned to the FCC.

KUVN-DT station history

The current television station licensed to channel 23 first signed on the air on September 25, 1986, as KIAB; it was founded by International American Broadcasting (owned by local ophthalmologist Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan and also known as I Am Broadcasting). The station, operating from studios on Marquis Street in Garland, primarily carried the Consumer Discount Network home shopping service. Houston-based CDN folded in December 1987.

I Am Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988, and Univision purchased the station from bankruptcy for $5.2 million. On August 8, the station switched to Univision programming as KUVN. It was the first time Univision—the former Spanish International Network had been available over-the-air in North Texas since it had been carried from 1981 to 1984 on KNBN-TV channel 33.

KUVN-CD
KUVN-CD's construction permit was originally owned by the American Christian Television System and was transferred to Bill Trammell in 1990. In 1994, the station's license was transferred to Rodriguez-Heftel-Texas; the deal was consummated on April 10, 1995. The license was transferred to KESS-TV License Corporation on May 16, 1996. The last transfer to date was (BALTTL-19960510IC) in 1996, in which it was sold to Univision. The station relocated its signal from UHF channel 31 to channel 47 in 2001. KUVN-LP was designated as a Class A low-power station and changed its call letters to KUVN-CA on March 1, 2002. A construction permit was issued by the FCC on August 4, 2008, to allow then-KUVN-CA to operate a digital signal on channel 47, with an effective radiated power of 190 watts. The station was licensed for digital operation on June 3, 2015, and changed its call sign to KUVN-CD. KUVN-CD is not a repeater or a translator, as a Class A station cannot act as merely a repeater or translator.

News operation
KUVN-DT broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Following its acquisition by Univision, the network invested in a news department for the station and began producing nightly Spanish-language local newscasts in April 1989.

On April 11, 2011, KUVN began broadcasting Primera Edicion and Vive La Mañana on Telefutura affiliate KSTR (channel 49). Like its newscasts at different times, it is broadcast in 480i standard definition, within their old studio set. Sister station KXLN-DT in Houston also uses the same titles for their newscasts; Vive La Mañana features a different graphics and music package shared by both KUVN and KXLN. In 2011, a new set for KUVN's newscasts was introduced. In 2012, KUVN began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

On March 27, 2015, Univision announced it would replace Univision 23's morning newscast and Univision 45's Vive La Mañana with a regionalized morning newscast called Noticias Texas Primera Edicion that would air on Univision's stations in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin from 4 to 6 a.m., meaning that Univision 23's morning show would be canceled; its last morning newscast was on March 27, 2015. The station's morning news anchors got relocated to Houston where the new regionalized morning newscast would be based. The station also has morning news briefs and local, live cut-ins during Despierta América and the regionalized newscast. The regionalized newscast debuted on April 6, 2015; until then, there were repeats of Noticiero Univision: Edicion Nocturna and entertainment programming.

Subchannels
The stations' signals are multiplexed: {{legend|#f2d1de|Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video}} {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

Analog-to-digital conversion
KUVN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 23, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 24 to channel 23.

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Thaddeus McCarthy (judge)

Sir Thaddeus Pearcey McCarthy (24 August 1907 – 11 April 2001) was a New Zealand jurist.

McCarthy was educated at St Bede's College, Christchurch, and then studied law at Victoria University College, New Zealand and graduated in 1928. He was admitted as a solicitor only in 1929, completed an LLM degree (in 1930), and in 1931 was admitted as a barrister. He practised at the Wellington bar for 26 years until his appointment to the bench. McCarthy was in active service overseas during the Second World War. He prosecuted Walter James Bolton, who was executed in 1957, the last person executed in New Zealand.

McCarthy was appointed to the Supreme Court bench in 1957, and from 1958 onwards he served periodically as a temporary judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand. He sat in the Rees v Sinclair case. Sir Thaddeus was President of the Court of Appeal from 1973 to 1976, and was the presiding member of an unprecedented seven Royal Commissions. He was also a Commissioner of Security Appeals.

McCarthy had a reputation as a "plain English" judge with an outstanding ability to make complex matters understandable. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1964 New Year Honours, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 3 May 1974. He was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civilian honour, on 6 February 1994.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mashed potatoes and gravy

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 08:17, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Mashed potatoes and gravy
Pointless article, gives no information whatsoever as it stands, and I can't see much future potential as an encyclopedia article UkPaolo 19:16, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) Mashed potatoes and gravy is a meal!
 * As it stands it's a candidate for speedy delete. Celestianpower 19:20, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it ought to be a redirect to Mashed potato     19:23, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, as it stands. -- BD2412 talk 19:23, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Yes, and this is an encyclopedia! UkPaolo 19:45, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

so delte?
 * Delete — yeesh. :) — RJH 20:23, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete with thanks to the article's creator for a good laugh. Schmeitgeist 20:41, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * As it stands this is almost the canonical CSD criterion A1 candidate. As for future articles: We keep articles on culturally significant meals, like grits, porridge, bangers and mash, fish and chips, hamburger, and pie floater.  I'm not convinced that this is a culturally significant meal.  There are certainly recipes (for the cookbook) that include mashed potatoes and gravy.  But there isn't much significance to the two as a specific meal that I can find that would indicate potential for expansion here, as opposed to in the two separate articles on the two separate components.  However, Capitalistroadster will no doubt be pleased to learn that Mashed Potatoes and Gravy was an album released in the 1960s by The Ventures.  As per -Ril-, Redirect to mashed potato, where the option of gravy is already mentioned. Uncle G 00:00, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Redirect to mashed potato. Thanks to Uncle G for the tip. I might even mention that KFC have this as part of their menu to the article. Capitalistroadster 01:04, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This would be a valid speedy. Delete. DJ Clayworth 03:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this should have been speedied as little or no content. JamesBurns 05:50, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Burp I meant Speedy Delete Vegaswikian 06:38, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Pavel Vozenilek 20:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per Uncle G and Capitalistroadster. -- Lochaber 10:55, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP What are you guys talking about??? We have entries for Macaroni and cheese, which is not often a complete meal;who cares if something is not a "whole meal." If we have other cultural foods, we should definitely have Mashed Potatoes and Gravy.  Note that this is not just two random foods put together [like celery and peanut butter], rather potatoes are one of the most [if not the most common] meals that gravy goes with.  I think the problem with seeing why this is valid is that we simple fans of the dish didn't come up with some new inventive name for it.  The Canucks take french fries and throw gravy on it and it becomes poutaine.  We just decided to call it what it was. -Phantym 07:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The topic has sufficient significance to be encyclopedic, but unless improved there is no reason to keep what is present. Delete unless expanded into (for instance) a complete sentence. Christopher Parham (talk) 20:46, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)

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Talk:Bird flight

Misleading illustration
I see some issues with the illustration on the right: In addition, the silhouettes are neither in correct relative scale. The span of an albatross is about ten times the span of a crow. Nor are they scaled to some common size, E.g. the body size, or wing span. ---<)kmk(>- (talk) 02:35, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * the flight of the albatross is characterized as "slowgliding/soaring". In reality, albatrosses are some of the fastest soaring birds.
 * the aspect ratio the albatross silhouette is significantly below the wings of real albatrosses. (compare with this Black-browed Albatross])
 * the wing of an actual eagle is much broader than in the image. (compare this bald eagle)
 * the silhouette of the falcon does not resemble a falcon at all (compare this peregrin falcon)
 * the crow is no better (compare this crow)
 * the heads of all birds are exaggerated in size
 * I recognized the falcon silhouette as a falcon at a glance, so it is not true that it doesn't look like a falcon at all. Peregrin e s are not the only falcons. They have for example a relatively short tail for a falcon, so it's probably not a peregrine that stood model for this one.  Wiki  klaas   23:39, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Hovering
The article states that "The largest bird able to truly hover is the pied kingfisher ...", but I've seen much larger White Tailed Kites hovering for 30 seconds or so, and I've seen Osprey's hovering for a few seconds before diving into the water. Since both birds are ground targeting when hovering, they tend to hover at a fixed location in the air, despite any wind. Rcgldr (talk) 07:55, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

 * These are due to headwinds - although the bird's ground speed is zero, there is an appreciable air speed due to the wind. True hovering is the ability to maintain a fixed position in still air, without the assistance of wind.  Just above anything can hover in sufficiently fast wind, and fast enough wind can even lift parked small aircraft off the ground. HCA (talk) 22:51, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Video of a white tailed Kite performing at a show, hovering in still air (no headwind) during a demonstration, despite the relatively heavy tether attached to it's legs (the demonstration starts at 1:10 into the video):

 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnbndA0Rjfg

 * I live in southern California and fly radio control gliders as a hobby. One of the locations I visit is Kite Hill, the location and nearby community named after the white tailed Kite. I have personally witnessed a Kite hovering against a slight tailwind (so technically hovering and flying backwards) for over 20 seconds. Normally the wind comes from the south, blowing up the hill, but in this case, the wind was coming from the north due to a "Santa Ana" condition. I assume that Kite was used to being oriented downhill, despite the tailwind condition. In near zero wind conditions, I've seen Kites hover for over 30 seconds.

 * I've also seen Osprey's at nearby Laguna Beach, also hovering in near zero wind conditions (no perceptible cross wind or updraft), but they normally only hover for a few seconds before diving. Unlike a Kite, the Ospreys apparently sight fish near the ocean surface during normal flight or partial hover, and my guess is they hover only long enough to get a fix on the fish and setup a dive. It appears they could hover for longer, as they have more than enough energy to dive underwater, use their wings to resurface out of the water and either fly away with a fish or fly back to their hunting altitude which is around 80 feet at this particular location.

 * In both cases, but more impressive with the Kites due to their longer hover times is that since they target a ground object during a hover, they remain nearly motionless relative to the ground despite any wind. In the case of white tailed Kites, their particular style of hovering is called "kiting". white_tailed_kite Rcgldr (talk) 08:07, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Fascinating, I had no idea they could do this. I think this video would be a suitable WP:RS for adding kites to the list of hovering birds. HCA (talk) 15:37, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Other than the bird experts or people like me who live in areas where where this can be observed, you wouldn't know. The birds will take advantage of a head wind if present, using much less energy than a true hover, but as the bird experts point out, these birds have to be able to hunt and feed in low or zero wind conditions. I'm going to search for more references, but many of the references and videos include headwind flight as "hovering", which may be why the birder term "Kiting" is used for Kites to make it clear what is going on. Finding references or videos (with no wind indicators, such as a flag), for the Ospreys will be more difficult (there's no special term for an Osprey hover). Rcgldr (talk) 20:51, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

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development of flight in juvenile birds
I was checking out this article hoping to learn about some of the developmental stages of bird flight during the juvenile development of birds. Could we consider a section on this? Edaham (talk) 02:53, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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