Amazing disparity among "news" stations in their coverage of the collapse of the Valley Ranch facility. KRLD all over it, in a continuous coverage mode since about 3:45. Meanwhile, it's now about 4:30, and still no mention whatsoever on WBAP. (As an aside, the TV situation is similar....Ch 11 has been live on the scene since it happened....Ch 8 has just gone to the story....4 and 5 apparently oblivious.) It's sad that a radio station like KRLD that still makes the effort to serve and inform the community loses the ratings battle to WBAP and their steady diet of foam-at-the-mouth freaks and brokered "I'll make you rich" gurus.
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Cowboy's incident coverage
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Fox4 was all over it, and weather coverage, at the same time. One of their own staff members was in the facility, and captured the collapse on tape! Fox4 has been showing it quite repeatedly this afternoon. When they aren't talking about the incident, they are talking about the approaching storms.
I can assure you, Fox4 is doing a superb job. I have been recording their coverage since just after 4:00, and caught the indoor video of the collapse, the first time they showed it.
A+ to Fox4 on this one.
I can assure you, Fox4 is doing a superb job. I have been recording their coverage since just after 4:00, and caught the indoor video of the collapse, the first time they showed it.
A+ to Fox4 on this one.
I had on 1080 from earlier this morning and heard it when it broke
I got my flights..im home the 16th of june...the weather coverage ya'll had was pretty bad..i had brad on my speakers and cbs 11 county by county views running while talking to family in ft worth
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I heard coverage on WBAP of this and ESPN sports center was using footage that they said they got from WFAA which is channel 8 so they had to have coverage as well, and I was watching Fox 4 and they did nothing but coverage until the race started, so I don't know where you got your information from, but it is clearly wrong
kavemank said:
Ed Bark has the best analysis of how the various TV stations did in covering the collapse of the Cowboys practice facility:
http://www.unclebarky.com/abovethefold_files/d02e143cfa0e5b2a2fd7c37f9f559ef7-1295.html
Ticket had the best coverage early on, IMHO, because they had people out there already to cover what they thought would be a routine news conf after practice. WBAP and KLIF were all about their snakeoil shows. KRLD eventually got on the story. Also, props to Barton for weather coverage. When the tornado sirens sounded in Plano Sat afternoon, I flipped around and only Barton was giving any information. Didn't even think to tune in the Fan.
I heard the facility collapsed because it was weakened by the effects of swine flu and is the first recorded case in Valley Ranch.
I'm no structural engineer, but the more I watch that collapse, the more I am convinced the structure should not have been huilt with so little support. And the additional fact that the building tended to shake anytime high winds came through, just adds more fuel to the fire. It appears to me, the structure should have had an exterior brick wall, for starters. That building had "danger" written all over it. I can't imagine the metal used was more than a quarter inch thick, if even that.
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spinderella
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WBAP had reporter Lance Liggez on the scene doing reports Saturday afternoon and did sporadic wall-to-wall simulcasting from WFAA.
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