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Great weather coverage WHIO radio...Not!

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Doodical

So there I am driving from Springfield to Centerville (last night) listening to Andy Dean (who's show I enjoy) a little after 9pm and there is some serious lightning coming towards me from the west. The weather alert is chiming on the air and then a forcast comes on...(a 3 hour old forcast calling for possible showers and thunder storms)...Really??? It looked more then possible to me! I guess we only get severe weather during the hours of 5am to 7pm? Thank you Erica Collura for the up to the minute forcast!! Your job is safe :)

They boast their coverage, but don't deliver!
 
Just another reason to use other technologies to get updated fast info. I'm sad to say that, relying on radio is not the best choice for anything up to the minute any longer.
 
I have a portable weather band radio...it seems like it's the only reliable way to get information when not near a computer or TV.
 
What's really hilarious is after the storms have blown through, hundreds of thousands are without power, trees and crap laying all over the place, mass chaos...and WHAS has their TWO day old forecast air!

Happened, I swear, couple of years ago.
 
techie2 said:
I have a portable weather band radio...it seems like it's the only reliable way to get information when not near a computer or TV.
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And when the power goes off because of the storm, all you probably have left is the portable weather band radio.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
techie2 said:
I have a portable weather band radio...it seems like it's the only reliable way to get information when not near a computer or TV.
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And when the power goes off because of the storm, all you probably have left is the portable weather band radio.
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I love it when TV stations tell viewers to call a number if they are without power. If they were without power, how do you think they're watching you? After analog TV shut down three years ago, everyone's portable TVs were rendered obsolete, and I don't know anybody who has one of those portable digital TVs I see at Radioshack.
 
almaniac27 said:
Cincinnati Kid said:
techie2 said:
I have a portable weather band radio...it seems like it's the only reliable way to get information when not near a computer or TV.
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And when the power goes off because of the storm, all you probably have left is the portable weather band radio.
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I love it when TV stations tell viewers to call a number if they are without power. If they were without power, how do you think they're watching you? After analog TV shut down three years ago, everyone's portable TVs were rendered obsolete, and I don't know anybody who has one of those portable digital TVs I see at Radioshack.
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You don't know anybody that owns the devices you admit can be purchased at any Radio Shack, and therefore, nobody owns them? That doesn't make much sense.

Look, lots of people pick up the phone when the power goes out and call grandma or she or whomever to see if she has power at her house.

"Yes I do, and they just said on the television what number to call......". Tell me that doesn't happen all the time. If you have a better way to give this info to people without power, there are many TV programmers and emergency agencies that would love to know. ;)

As to Doodical's original post- all the severe thunderstorm warnings that night were issued before 9pm. What you would have heard after 9 was the forecast for that day, not a severe weather bulletin. You probably missed it.

Unlike a lot of radio stations, WHIO AM and FM has live people in the studio all evening. I wasn't listening that night, but I'd be very surprised if they weren't on top of it.
 
@Greg.Hahn...then you should be really suprised!!!

They were Not on top of it and I listened for about 45 minutes on my drive. I know it's not a perfect system, but really? 45 minutes and no weather break in's? WHIO breaks in for some really stupid stuff (Yellow Traffic Alerts) Be careful driving on such and such street due to a dog getting run over, causing a major back-up...LOL. I just think they dropped the ball that day. It doesn't happen a lot, but this one day it did. Thats all I was pointing out.  As far as them having people there live all evening..thats good to know. News and weather doesn't stop because our work day is over because some of us depend on radio. Im not a tv watcher. I miss listening to the old days of radio when there was more information on all the stations.
Im not trying to trash WHIO, for the most part they do a bang up job. I listen to their FM station most of my day. I like the news department, they do a great job, weather for the most part is good too. Not the best call running the forcasts with it saying "Possible Thunderstorms" during a sever thunderstorm, just my opinion as a listener. It makes you sound out of touch.
 
Somebody needs to show WHIO evening anchor Eric West (or whatever his name is) how to use a microphone. He sounds like he's talking into an empty soup can, causing you to turn up the volume. Weather is then played, 3 or 4 times louder than the soup can newscast. I've managed small market stations that don't sound this amatuerish.

What happened to Darryl Bauer? Was he exiled to the "Springfield Bureau"? ;)
 
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