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Behind the scenes at Total Traffic

Great stuff! Cool to hear and see one of the 'KFI in the Sky' reports with the late Bruce Wayne. I just wish there was more footage of this. Now we need a behind the scenes of TT and how they are doing the added 'hub and spoke' newscasts.

There is a moment near the end where a traffic reporter newly assigned to cover Charleston SC, spent a week there getting to know the city My question is: how many dedicated staff newly assigned to the city, take a trip there to actually learn about the city they are covering?
 
KilowattKat said:
Great stuff! Cool to hear and see one of the 'KFI in the Sky' reports with the late Bruce Wayne. I just wish there was more footage of this. Now we need a behind the scenes of TT and how they are doing the added 'hub and spoke' newscasts.

There is a moment near the end where a traffic reporter newly assigned to cover Charleston SC, spent a week there getting to know the city My question is: how many dedicated staff newly assigned to the city, take a trip there to actually learn about the city they are covering?
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True and yes it involves reading Google Maps in some of them and also reading the latest DOT and State Highway Patrol reports on traffic incidents from multiple places plus voice tracking has been the common thing for some time now.

I seen something similar in San Francisco where Joe McConnell of Total Traffic San Francisco would read traffic reports for multiple Bay Area radio stations like KQED-FM and then go to Iheart 24/7 News and read headlines for them.


 
KilowattKat said:
There is a moment near the end where a traffic reporter newly assigned to cover Charleston SC, spent a week there getting to know the city My question is: how many dedicated staff newly assigned to the city, take a trip there to actually learn about the city they are covering?
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I'd wager this trip was at her own expense. Charleston is a city people often vacation to, and isn't far from Atlanta. Maybe 4 hours driving. I'd imagine no one from Total Traffic went to visit Waco or Fargo when they were assigned traffic duties there.
 
KilowattKat said:
Great stuff! Cool to hear and see one of the 'KFI in the Sky' reports with the late Bruce Wayne. I just wish there was more footage of this. Now we need a behind the scenes of TT and how they are doing the added 'hub and spoke' newscasts.

There is a moment near the end where a traffic reporter newly assigned to cover Charleston SC, spent a week there getting to know the city My question is: how many dedicated staff newly assigned to the city, take a trip there to actually learn about the city they are covering?
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It's gotta be rarer now to see talent go to a city they are covering on radio. Unless you're with an all-news station in a major city like Audacy owned stations in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas and San Francisco, Hubbards WTOP Washington DC or a News/talk station affiliated with NPR or a TV reporter it has to be way smaller than what we can think of right now. It's like how Weather segments are hubbed from the AccuWeather offices on TV whenever there's a Hurricane in some parts of the country.
 
Even in the big cities, the reports can be coming from anywhere. I believe that Karen Stewart does the AM drive traffic reports for WINS from her home in Georgia.
 


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