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Storm coverage this week WSB and AN106.7

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BarryATL

I will be honest. I did not listen to AN106.7 but a couple of times. WSB and WSB-TV seemed to have exactly the coverage I was looking for. TV and radio was local for about 48 hours. WSB Radio had the call in shows mixed heavily with news, weather, traffic. Those call in shows worked for me. There is a feel of "I am not alone" when listening. We got to hear from people in areas of the state and metro where there were no reporters.

WSB (radio and TV) threw a lot of money and resources at this storm. I think this will pan out for them in the long term. It more firmly puts them in the position of Atlanta's news leader.
 
We didn't listen to either of them, preferred following events on the police scanner and TV. So I can't evaluate AN1067. Maybe radio was better than TV because TV got terribly repetitive. There were no individual stories on WSB-TV, just their crews tooling about and reminding everyone who marvelously brave and courageous they were to be out there, and what a magnificent job they were doing of bringing us wall-to-wall coverage. I think David Chandley reported on each snowflake as it fell. Yes, I'm being sarcastic, but to me, in a weather emergency, TV just comes apart when it tries to ride it out like that. Folks are already antsy enough because they can't get out and about. Program some entertainment, update regularly but don't slam the stuff--old news and the same tired video clips--in our faces all the time. Air the press conferences lived, but don't rehash them with replays over and over again.

I'm sorry, but this just wore me out. All four video channels went over the top on this.

And WSB radio -- if they could air Clark Howard why couldn't they air Rush Limbaugh? Yes, I know Clark was airing local listeners, but he's gotten to be so lame on the air, so whiney. He's no longer in my mind the guru he was once.
 
BarryATL said:
I will be honest. I did not listen to AN106.7 but a couple of times. WSB and WSB-TV seemed to have exactly the coverage I was looking for. TV and radio was local for about 48 hours. WSB Radio had the call in shows mixed heavily with news, weather, traffic. Those call in shows worked for me. There is a feel of "I am not alone" when listening. We got to hear from people in areas of the state and metro where there were no reporters.

WSB (radio and TV) threw a lot of money and resources at this storm. I think this will pan out for them in the long term. It more firmly puts them in the position of Atlanta's news leader.
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sounds like their coverage paid off. saw this on a different thread.

If you don't kick ass during a weather emergency, will you ever? An industry acquaintance whose seen the ratings says WSB was listened to by nearly 600,000 people on the day of the ice storm compared to WYAY's 178,000 people, the following day WED was even more dominant 273,000 people to 33,000 people. Gotta wonder if a music format that is far less expensive to operate would perform better than that year round.
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