I'm down here visiting, getting away from New England cold, and tuning my Sangean HDR 16 around the dial. Enjoying WFEZ Easy 93, and discovered NOAA Weather Radio from Miami on their HD3 channel. Nice way to use an extra HD channel. Do any other stations do this also?? I even called the station and complimented them.
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Miami/Fort Lauderdale WFEZ HD3 NOAA Weather Radio
- Thread starter rjoc
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I'm not sure but that is pretty nice.
I can confirm that it is KHB34 at 162.500 MHz as I'm currently listening to it via WFEZ-HD3. It does run though on a 40-second delay compared to the same broadcast on a typical NOAA Weather Radio receiver, like how I'm listening to it via my Midland ER40.
This is the first I've heard of an FM station using an HD subchannel for NOAA Weather Radio. It isn't noted on WFEZ's Wikipedia page so I assume it's fairly new.
I have heard of stations using NOAA Weather Radio as a placeholder. I remember an FM station in Hartford, 93.7 WLVH (now WZMX owned by Audacy) which ran Weather Radio for months as it was being sold. It had been a Spanish-language Tropical station. As the sale was announced, everyone was fired and the station took NOAA 24/7. There was no option then, as there is today, for the buyer to lease the station as the transaction was going through.
I have heard of stations using NOAA Weather Radio as a placeholder. I remember an FM station in Hartford, 93.7 WLVH (now WZMX owned by Audacy) which ran Weather Radio for months as it was being sold. It had been a Spanish-language Tropical station. As the sale was announced, everyone was fired and the station took NOAA 24/7. There was no option then, as there is today, for the buyer to lease the station as the transaction was going through.
The TIS station for Plantation carries NOAA radio on 1620 AM. Years ago, channel 6 would put up weather radar and run NOAA radio instead of signing off for the night.
Let me clarify that its 162.550, NOT 162.500.
Duly noted now as I made the edit there to include it.
That would be Channel 4 that did that. Yours truly made these recordings over a decade ago that are still up on YouTube for you to enjoy.
Cool. But I was thinking of the time before WTVJ-4 and WCIX-6 swapped places on the dial. I didn't realize the current channel 4 continued it.
Continued it... until like 2014 or 2015, I believe? I mean it was only 2 or 3 more years after this recording that WFOR stopped doing NOAA Weather during the overnight hours in favor of paid programming infomercials.
When I last hung around South Florida in 2011, WFOR would run Weather/Radar (that’s how it was listed on program guides) for as little as 15 minutes overnight on Saturday/Sundays if there was sports that evening…Usually ending at 5:00am. Never saw it run for more than 90 minutes.
I remember WSAT outside Charlotte doing NOAA as part of the programming for the noon hour.
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