I guess the storm tracked a little farther East than expected. TV reports look worse than what Atlanta had. Hope everyone is safe
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How are the Asheville stations covering the storm
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I didn't see this until just now, so I commented on an existing post.From Knoxville I can get WMIT and WKSF. I listened briefly to each. WMIT had a jock on the air who put a Haywood County official on. In the few minutes I listened to WKSF I only heard regular format. I imagine a lot of stations are off the air
There's also WQNS. What are they doing?
I was amazed by the articles in the actual newspaper. You'd never know anything happened. The web site for the newspaper tells a very different story.
A few postings on FB by engineers there show generators & Starlink keeping things going.
They are part of the simulcast too... I didn't hear them IDed at first, but the entire cluster is now being IDed on the TOH.
If the paper publishes a "weekend edition" rather than separate Saturday and Sunday papers, the deadline for the print edition was probably sometime early Friday evening, well before the storm started to impact Asheville.
No, there's something very wrong with the Citizen-Times in Asheville, at least its e-edition. (If you subscribe to any Gannett paper, you can read the e-edition of every Gannett paper.)
They do separate Saturday and Sunday print editions, and neither has any flooding coverage. The front page stories are non-timely features.
I assume that like most Gannett papers these days, the print editions are printed hundreds of miles away and trucked in. And since there's no highway access in and out of Asheville and no way to deliver papers around town even if there were, I assume they're simply not printing actual papers right now.
And it's also a good educated guess that the page design for the Asheville paper takes place at one of Gannett's regional design hubs. I believe there's one in Nashville.
Those hubs have access to all the local reporting that's making it to the Citizen-Times website and digital presence. I am mystified as to why the e-edition looks the way it does with no coverage (other than in the "News Extra" digital-only section that's attached to every Gannett paper's e-edition.)
They do separate Saturday and Sunday print editions, and neither has any flooding coverage. The front page stories are non-timely features.
I assume that like most Gannett papers these days, the print editions are printed hundreds of miles away and trucked in. And since there's no highway access in and out of Asheville and no way to deliver papers around town even if there were, I assume they're simply not printing actual papers right now.
And it's also a good educated guess that the page design for the Asheville paper takes place at one of Gannett's regional design hubs. I believe there's one in Nashville.
Those hubs have access to all the local reporting that's making it to the Citizen-Times website and digital presence. I am mystified as to why the e-edition looks the way it does with no coverage (other than in the "News Extra" digital-only section that's attached to every Gannett paper's e-edition.)
Listening this morning (we have family affected) on the iHeart app, they mentioned 99.9's transmitter was running low on fuel and should it go off the air before it can be replenished, to tune to one of the other signals. They are doing a herculean effort, and other markets are helping. iHeart gets and often deserves a lot of the brickbats it gets, but situations like this, they shine.
They also got a tree crew to drive all night from Miami to clear access to one of their sites. I'm impressed!
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The last place I even thought of looking for info was the newspaper website. Brad Panovich, meteorologist from WCNC, Charlotte on his social media feeds was the first. He pointed people to other informative Facebook pages. Also WLOS.
There is an eEdition on Saturday, but I think they knew what was coming and should have had something in the real Sunday paper.
I'm going to the text articles for today any minute.
Dozens of Radio Stations Were Knocked Off the Air by Helene - Radio World
Hurricane Helene knocked at least 48 radio stations in the southeastern United States off the air, though the numbers were declining Sunday.
www.radioworld.com
I hadn't thought of that.
They announced earlier that WKSF will be on backup transmitter if not already. Main site is the Ch 13 tower i think.
WLOS TV (Asheville) website has had quite a bit of updated information concerning the Western NC areas affected by Helene.
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Two Citizen-Times articles on the storm appeared where I can get to them for free guaranteed. One said, "No, there's no cell service, mail, cable TV, internet or water. He had an old FM radio inside and joked he might have to turn to it for respite."
When Superstorm Sandy hit the Northeast in 2012, there were people sitting in their car in their driveway listening to the radio, because they didn't have any battery-powered radios in their house.
You don't report on events that haven't happened yet. All they had to go with was a storm making its way up from Florida, still off to the southeast of western North Carolina. Again, we don't have the deadlines for that dead-tree Sunday paper. For all we know, page 1 could have been sent to the presses Friday afternoon.
I'm surprised the paper hasn't lifted the paywall during this emergency. I've seen several papers do that in similar situations.
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