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Boston Manhunt Coverage Thread

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crainbebo

Currently right now, I'm listening to WBZ-1030 in Boston (AM), and the coverage is pretty good. Lots of interviews with people. One of the Boston Marathon perpetrators is killed, and the other suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is still on the loose, and the police has not found him. Universities are shut down, MBTA is also shut down, as well as a lockdown notice for Watertown, MA as well as the entire Boston area (police warning 1 million + people to stay inside). What do you think of the coverage?

On the TV, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, Bloomberg, RT, and Fox (network) are on the air with coverage. My local KIRO 7 is simulcasting WBZ-4 with a bunch of breaking news icons over it. :mad:

-crainbebo
 
Surfing the cable networks, lockdown appearantly lifted, mass transit up and running again, but with a proviso: be vigilant!

Conflicting views, with the governer believing surviving suspect may have left the state, state PD not so sure.
 
I'm watching NBC right now, with coverage of more gunshots in Watertown. NBC switched over to show live coverage from NECN, which happened to air someone using foul language, leaving Brian Williams apologizing to viewers. After a few minutes they started getting live coverage from WHDH.
 
BREAKING: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been arrested and is in police custody. Police found him, the 19-year-old suspect, inside a stored boat in Watertown. Interrogate him, then put him on death row!

-crainbebo
 
Boston Globe reporting three more suspects arrested in New Bedford, MA tonight as part of investigation
 
crainbebo said:
BREAKING: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been arrested and is in police custody. Police found him, the 19-year-old suspect, inside a stored boat in Watertown. Interrogate him, then put him on death row!
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Put his head on a pike and parade it down the Marathon route!
 
Currently, ABC, CBS, NBC all in national special reports. KCPQ 13 is simulcasting WFXT-25 Boston with live coverage. Fox Business is simulcasting Fox News, CNBC is simulcasting NBC and Brian Williams.

-crainbebo
 
Been watching WBZ all day. Other than being a couple minutes behind everyone else on the news that he had been taken into custody, their coverage has been absolutely top notch.

I can't imagine what kind of bandwidth their stream must use. I've been streaming it through my iPad to Apple TV and it is just shy of HD. Great picture quality.
 
crainbebo said:
BREAKING: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been arrested and is in police custody. Police found him, the 19-year-old suspect, inside a stored boat in Watertown. Interrogate him, then put him on death row!

-crainbebo
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Last I checked, Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
 
The networks were all over this today. I'm sure all covered it, but some local affiliates over-ride. This may be a tell-tale about your local network affiliate. If they aired the network coverage, good for them, if they didn't, then they were asleep at the wheel OR more interested in profits. It can't be said any simpler than that.
 
I didn't watch much TV today, but I believe all four major Boston stations ran with local coverage all day. When I actually turned the TV on at around 9:30pm tonight, CBS's coverage was on WBZ's sister station, WSBK, but there was no sign of the other networks' coverage until WMUR switched over to ABC for 20/20.
 
Fox News bulletin came on at 10PM ET as well as all the other networks, to cover Obama's conference about the manhunt. They left the earliest from what I saw, about five seconds of Shepherd Smith, then poof! ABC was second to leave, I got to see the rest of Wheel of Fortune on KOMO, which I predicted would be pre-empted at first... CBS stayed on the air for a LONG time, I left the cable around a half-hour after Obama's speech ended (10:40 ET/7:40 PT) to watch a DVD and Scott Pelley kept plugging away...)

-crainbebo
 
searadiofreak said:
The networks were all over this today. I'm sure all covered it, but some local affiliates over-ride. This may be a tell-tale about your local network affiliate. If they aired the network coverage, good for them, if they didn't, then they were asleep at the wheel OR more interested in profits. It can't be said any simpler than that.
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Either that or (In the case of CW & MyNetwork stations) they're part of a duopoly where the coverage is available on the station with the news department

This was the case here in Denver with KWGN 2 (CW) & KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV). Instead of carrying news coverage from CNN (On CW) & Fox News (On MyNetwork TV, both stations stayed with regular programming because coverage was already available on KUSA 9 (NBC) & KDVR 31 (Fox)

That said though, Monday's 4:00 PM @ 9NEWS newscast aired on KTVD 20 so that KUSA 9 could continue to carry national coverage from NBC

That's the only noticeable thing I saw on the local front

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
^Local TV stations outside of Boston and the providers of their national programming (such as ABC, CBS, and NBC) could have waited until their regular times for producing news programs before broadcasting any more information about the situation. If they had waited, more TV viewers would have been interested in the situation and they would have had more time to get their reports prepared.

w00t said:
Been watching WBZ all day. Other than being a couple minutes behind everyone else on the news that he had been taken into custody, their coverage has been absolutely top notch.

I can't imagine what kind of bandwidth their stream must use. I've been streaming it through my iPad to Apple TV and it is just shy of HD. Great picture quality.
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Sometimes it is best to be patient than to act too quickly or else risk making a mistake.
 
I had to work overnight and usually I turn on WBBM NewsRadio 78 in Chicago. But I wanted to see if anything knew was happening so I went over to WBZ. I agree the radio coverage was excellent and well done.

There is a great Internet radio device called RadioSure, I recommend it for listening to Internet Radio stations. It is a free application for your computer, not an app for a tablet but it is handy.
 
Mark said:
There is a great Internet radio device called RadioSure, I recommend it for listening to Internet Radio stations. It is a free application for your computer, not an app for a tablet but it is handy.
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iTunes also has a radio stations section that numerous stations are listed in, though Apple clearly didn't put much thought into it.
 
MarcB said:
I know this was a serious situation, but there was no need for wall-to-wall coverage all day long (outside of Boston). By 10AM Eastern it was the same old over and over. They could've run regular program and then broke in when they found the suspect.
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I totally agree. Someone owes me a "Jeopardy" episode.
 
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