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The result was merge to WFFT-TV. Liz Read! Talk! 04:57, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Notable only on local level. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:14, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Indiana. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:14, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect to or merge into parent station, WFFT-TV. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 02:33, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- I actually am slightly less gung-ho on a merge than on most articles of this kind because I've found some surprising SIGCOV in the Fort Wayne media, including after the show's run ended around 1998. The papers are in NewsBank, but several long articles were written on Happy's Place. There is also some SIGCOV on the first host, Mike L. Fry, mostly because his business career selling cookies led to a fair number of features. There are three long articles with significant info on the show and there is also a specific mention in Broadcasting & Cable magazine in 1998; the article notes that the format inspired a show on WAMI-TV in Miami! Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- "HAPPYness \ - Happy the Hobo's the name. Nothing else - simply Happy, OK? That's how the grease-whiskered clown wants it. He know his "Place."", The News-Sentinel July 30, 1987
- "CLOWN ABOUT TOWN HAPPY THE HOBO MAY NOT BE A BOZO, BUT THE HOST OF WFFT 'S `HAPPY'S PLACE' HAS NO PROBLEM MAKING CHILDREN LAUGH", The Journal Gazette January 23, 1997 p. 10D
- "No clowning around - 'Happy's Place,' a children's show that aired on WFFT, really was a happy place", The News-Sentinel October 23, 2002 p. 1F
For 15 years Happy's Place was an after-school standard in Fort Wayne and the surrounding areas. The locally produced children's show, which aired weekdays on WFFT, Channel 55, boasted an audience of thousands, a two-year wait for tickets and a host - Happy the Hobo - who gave a generation of kids its first glimpse at bulging biceps. But after nearly two decades on the air, Happy the Hobo and his sidekick Froggy... disappeared.
- "All local, most of the time", Broadcasting & Cable January 19, 1998
It's not a new idea, [Adam] Ware acknowledges, but one that must be tailored to appeal to local viewers. He cites the example of a kids block created by WFFT-TV Fort Wayne, Ind., several years ago. Called Happy's Place, it combined Disney Afternoon cartoons with local segments hosted by a local Bozo-type character. "But in the Nielsen book it was Happy's Place. You never saw Duck Tales, and it was gigantic. They owned kids" and the transition show that followed.
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, signed, Rosguill talk 01:32, 15 June 2023 (UTC)- Merge Seems to have some coverage as above, a selective merge with a paragraph in the article for the station should suffice. Oaktree b (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
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