I had just caught the breaking news on TV regarding the Paris attacks as I was heading out the door. So in my truck I dialed into WFLA to hear what was happening. OMG, what I heard was a total mess. They were switching back and forth between someones national feed about the attacks and the Schnitt Show banging on Trump about something. And by back and forth I mean every few minutes, kinda like automation run amok. Not at breaks in coverage from either program, but right in mid sentence, no rhyme nor reason to it. Move along folks, nothing to hear here...............
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I heard that mess as well on Saturday afternoon as I was driving south on I-75 toward Tampa...... to be honest I was not surprised......... most AM stations have trimmed the fat and have now cut to the bone and weekends are especially bad (as well as evenings during the week) It might be possible to have a decent news station on auto-pilot or by remote but the stations here have not discovered the way to do it if in fact it's even possible.
It's sad that a station which promotes itself as "NEWSRADIO" doesn't keep the newsroom staffed 24/7.
It's not a local station in Tampa. It's a cluster of stations:
93.3 WFLZ FM
95.7 WBTP FM
97.9 WXTB FM
100.7 WMTX FM
103.5 WFUS FM
620 WDAE AM
970 WFLA AM
1250 WHNZ AM
I'm thinking that iheartmedia can afford to have a person in their Tampa Bay newsroom 24/7.
93.3 WFLZ FM
95.7 WBTP FM
97.9 WXTB FM
100.7 WMTX FM
103.5 WFUS FM
620 WDAE AM
970 WFLA AM
1250 WHNZ AM
I'm thinking that iheartmedia can afford to have a person in their Tampa Bay newsroom 24/7.
Reminder that they're $20 billion in debt.
... and for a good reason.
Staffing a newsroom in Tampa 24/7 won't do anything to help their debt situation.
TheBigA,
iheartmedia is a large .... HUGE .... corporation. They should have a nationwide newsroom facility. Like the big four TV networks, iheartmedia should have the ability to notify their stations of important news information 24/7.
iheartmedia is a large .... HUGE .... corporation. They should have a nationwide newsroom facility. Like the big four TV networks, iheartmedia should have the ability to notify their stations of important news information 24/7.
That's not really what this thread is about. Apparently, they DO have some kind of national service, perhaps from Fox News, who they distribute, or Metro Traffic & News, based in Phoenix. Both of them provide national and international content to stations. No guarantee they're staffed 24/7 either.
I agree, Frank, if not permanently staffed 24/7, they could at least have someone on call; especially in an event like this; that's a big building on Gandy and one would think someone familliar with the board would be in that big complex the day after such a big world-wide event.......... other than a security guard or janitor... or if they can't do that, then maybe they should drop the "Newsradio" moniker.
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Yes, I do believe what I heard was some sort of technical issue. I was not saying that a NEWSMAN had to be there 24/7 but a qualified board op who could have stepped in and stopped the madness and locked the national feed on the air. Agreed that a local news guy would have had little if anything to add to the coverage but what if it had been a local story. We would still be listening to Schnitt ragging on Trump while bullets were flying in Ybor City for example.
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