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Great Job On Friday

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benandree

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I think the WASK radio group needs a big thank you and kudos for the outstanding work they did with the simulcast during the potentially dangerous weather that Lafayette, and most of Indiana for that matter, got pounded with. Eric Burch and Brian Somers handled themselves well and kept the Greater Lafayette area well informed of the storms.
- Another thought -
Was this the first time a simulcast was performed on 5 stations at one time?
 
> I think the WASK radio group needs a big thank you and kudos
> for the outstanding work they did with the simulcast during
> the potentially dangerous weather that Lafayette, and most
> of Indiana for that matter, got pounded with. Eric Burch
> and Brian Somers handled themselves well and kept the
> Greater Lafayette area well informed of the storms.
> - Another thought -
> Was this the first time a simulcast was performed on 5
> stations at one time?
>

In the Lafayette area, I'm sure this was a first. I'm sure it has happened elsewhere, though.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that WASK covered the tornado outbreak very well on Friday night. Schurz has an outstanding news operation out there on McCarty, and I'm sure they deserve lots of credit for the coverage they did. I didn't get a chance to listen to it because I was also doing wall-to-wall coverage for WIBN from the point the storms entered the eastern counties in Illinois all the way until the last set of storms moved through White, Carroll, and Clinton counties.

Here's my question...besides Schurz and WIBN, did any other Lafayette area stations cover the storms or was it business as usual?
 
Shine 99 did a great job too ZPL did some at least gave it a try but for the rest of Indy radio kind of sad they stuck with the voice track
 
I couldn't speak for Friday but I was in Frankfort Sunday afternoon as the potential tornado had just passed (I saw the storm just northeast of where I was on 421 just before the 28/29 split). Shine 99 was doing live coverage. At one point the EAS covered programming and I heard WAZY's regular programming along with the EAS tornado warning message.<P ID="signature">______________
"Your right to know supersedes your right to exist"..Gary Burbank</P>
 
> I couldn't speak for Friday but I was in Frankfort Sunday
> afternoon as the potential tornado had just passed (I saw
> the storm just northeast of where I was on 421 just before
> the 28/29 split). Shine 99 was doing live coverage. At one
> point the EAS covered programming and I heard WAZY's regular
> programming along with the EAS tornado warning message.

From what I'm aware, Mid-America (may) have done a severe weather trimulcast in Kokomo. Allan James WZWZ 92.5 was in parallel with WIOU 1350 (and so he claimed, but I didn't verify by tuning to it) WMYK 98.5 Peru/Kokomo.
They had a similar error FWIW. They picked up a manual (NON robotic!) EAS message about a warning of something going on in Tipton County, and it didn't cut off right, so they relayed a liner and a spot or two (IIRC) from the MAX WHTY 93.5 / WHTI 96.7 simulcast (in Anderson/Muncie area).
What surprised me is that WZWZ (apparently) is monitoring WHTY for EAS. I would have assumed Q95.
 
When I worked in Frankfort and Logansport, we monitored Q95, not sure why WSHW was monitoring WAZY and especially anyone was monitoring WHTY. The WAZY programming went out on WSHW along with the EAS alert.<P ID="signature">______________
"Your right to know supersedes your right to exist"..Gary Burbank</P>
 
> > I couldn't speak for Friday but I was in Frankfort Sunday
> > afternoon as the potential tornado had just passed (I saw
> > the storm just northeast of where I was on 421 just before
>
> > the 28/29 split). Shine 99 was doing live coverage. At one
>
> > point the EAS covered programming and I heard WAZY's
> regular
> > programming along with the EAS tornado warning message.
>
> From what I'm aware, Mid-America (may) have done a severe
> weather trimulcast in Kokomo. Allan James WZWZ 92.5 was in
> parallel with WIOU 1350 (and so he claimed, but I didn't
> verify by tuning to it) WMYK 98.5 Peru/Kokomo.
> They had a similar error FWIW. They picked up a manual (NON
> robotic!) EAS message about a warning of something going on
> in Tipton County, and it didn't cut off right, so they
> relayed a liner and a spot or two (IIRC) from the MAX WHTY
> 93.5 / WHTI 96.7 simulcast (in Anderson/Muncie area).
> What surprised me is that WZWZ (apparently) is monitoring
> WHTY for EAS. I would have assumed Q95.
>

Alan James will go wall to wall coverage if it becomes overcast, and make it sound like the 6th sign of the apocalypse, just so he can hear his own voice. I was flipping through stations Sunday night, and came across 100.5 out of Kokomo. They did an alright job, except when the woman on the air mentioned (twice) that all the severe storms we've had this spring is because of the daylight savings time, and the fact that the earth has one more hour of heating now. Wow, Indiana is having a hard time figuring this daylight savings time thing out.
 
Shine and KI do a great job with severe weather in the Kokomo/Frankfort areas. Like WASK in Lafayette, they are pretty much the go-to by default station when it comes to that sort of thing in their respective areas.

> I was
> flipping through stations Sunday night, and came across
> 100.5 out of Kokomo. They did an alright job, except when
> the woman on the air mentioned (twice) that all the severe
> storms we've had this spring is because of the daylight
> savings time, and the fact that the earth has one more hour
> of heating now. Wow, Indiana is having a hard time figuring
> this daylight savings time thing out.
>

She seriously said that?!? I sincerely hope she was just being sarcastic about that. If not, it was just plan ignorance or maybe perhaps a scare tactic to get some of the more simple-minded people to oppose of DST for next year.

*getting on soapbox*

To those who actually bought this because I know several Indiana citizens who have never lived anywhere except for Indiana, in broadcasting or not, have freaked out about DST one way or another, but Daylight savings time has NOTHING...I repeat...absolutely NOTHING to do with the intensity of the storms on Sunday. They would have been just as fearce had we not observed DST. Believe or not, the sun is up for exactly the same period of time. We just move our clock up an hour in the spring to have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening (and as a result, one hour less in the morning). It's not that hard of a concept to grasp, but obviously some people are just thinking wayyyy too much into this.

*off of soapbox*

*long sigh*

Now back to regularly scheduled programming...
 
Re: Great Job On Friday INDY

In Indy WIBC went wall to wall storm after pushing the pacer game over to 97.1. They even simulcast the storm coverage on 105.7.

> I think the WASK radio group needs a big thank you and kudos
> for the outstanding work they did with the simulcast during
> the potentially dangerous weather that Lafayette, and most
> of Indiana for that matter, got pounded with. Eric Burch
> and Brian Somers handled themselves well and kept the
> Greater Lafayette area well informed of the storms.
> - Another thought -
> Was this the first time a simulcast was performed on 5
> stations at one time?
>
 
Re: Great Job On Friday INDY

> In Indy WIBC went wall to wall storm after pushing the pacer
> game over to 97.1. They even simulcast the storm coverage on
> 105.7.
>

WIBC blows everyone else out of the water when it comes to storm coverage. Not only in Indy, but in all of central Indiana. Good to hear they're keeping up the excellent work. :)
 
gr8oldies said:
When I worked in Frankfort and Logansport, we monitored Q95, not sure why WSHW was monitoring WAZY and especially anyone was monitoring WHTY. The WAZY programming went out on WSHW along with the EAS alert.<P ID="signature">______________For EAS purposes, Kokomo stations should monitor WKOA Lafayette as their primary and WAZY Lafayette as their secondary. My guess is the tuner of the Kokomo station's EAS is picking up WHTI 96.7 better than WAZY 96.5 and they should have it retuned.I listened to coverage that Friday and Sunday, and while WZWZ 92.5 was live with a severe thunderstorm warning for Clinton county, Shine 99 was still playing music, and on Friday when they went to weather coverage, talked about a storm system in Crawfordsville while the warning was still in effect in their own home county. On Sunday, the Shine board op was barely audible when he'd answer questions from their guy on the phone.
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