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chilly

I no longer live in the area, but was wondering how local radio is dealing with the "storm of the century", or at least "the storm of the decade". Is it voice tracking as usual?
 
Your first sentence says it all. After listening to this market for the past 5 years, I would have left too. I know KFBK got numerous shameless plugs on KCRA, but when it comes to weather, all I knew was to look out the window and figure it out. I don't need 24 hour coverage of someone saying, It's rainy and windy (oh and we just paid our voice guy to do a bunch of liners so please listen)
Just plain pathetic.

But to answer your question... I didn't listen and I didn't need to. It rained, it was windy and I didn't need some overpaid, undertalented, talking head to tell me that.
 
SFSAC...You said it all. It's a perfect example of what's happened with consolidation and corporate ownership. As a kid, radio was a part of my life. Whether it was music or information, it was where I would go to be entertained or find out what was happening in times of crisis. I knew the D.J.s by name and I trusted the guys in the newsroom. It's not that way anymore especially with younger listners.
 
That was the storm of the century? It was kite flying weather
 
In Marysville and Yuba City, KUBA, 1600, Yuba City was covering the storm until its studio/transmitter facility lost power after 9:30. Didn't return until more than six hours later. It's the primary EAS station for the three-county area.

That outage also took Huth Broadcasting's Spanish KOBO, 1450, Yuba City off the air, since it is diplexed into one of the KUBA towers.

Huth also owns the former EAS station, KMYC, 1410, Marysville, which was off most of the day. I gather it got hit by the same outage that had power off at my home/office in the city limits from right around 6 a.m. to just after noon a week ago Friday.

Ted.
 
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