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Hostage Situation on 131 Front Street

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I know this has nothing to do with radio discussion but I am sending my condulences to those affected in the hostage situation at the civic center on front st. as of what I heard on Cool 100, 13 are dead and 4 hostages are released.
 
While the situation is horrible it was great to hear WNBF News Director Bob Joseph on both CNN & Fox. He sounded better than any of their reporters, and unlike the people at CNN & Fox who couldn't even correctly pronounce Binghamton..he sounded excellent!!! Cheers to Bob!!!!! In honor of that, Citadel will probably cut his position tomorrow.
 
Yes, Bob deserves massive kudos for his work today, as do Bill Jaker and his staff over at WSKG.

On the TV side...well, not so much. I think the kindest thing that can be said is that the coverage from the local TV stations showed pretty clearly how much the repeated cuts in budget and staffing have hurt. Up here in Rochester, we got Time Warner/News 10 Now coverage via our local R News, and it was pretty clear that this was a much bigger story than they were initially able to get their hands around down there. Sure, there has to be a place for new reporters to learn their craft, and Binghamton has always been one of those markets - but the idea was always that you'd have some veteran anchors and photogs around to show the new kids the ropes. When the anchors are in Albany and the reporter IS the photog, who do you learn from?
 
I thought it was quite interesting that Fox was using video from WSYR in Syracuse and Channel-10 in Albany. I think that's quite a slap to WICZ given that they are a Fox affiliate. And where was TV-12??
 
BaltimoreJack said:
I thought it was quite interesting that Fox was using video from WSYR in Syracuse and Channel-10 in Albany. I think that's quite a slap to WICZ given that they are a Fox affiliate. And where was TV-12??
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WICZ barely has a news department - they do one half-hour show at 10 and that's it, so they were probably barely staffed at 10:30 AM. (I don't think they have a live truck, and I know they don't have a sat truck.)

Word has it that 12's sat truck broke down a few months ago and Granite didn't want to pay to get it fixed.

Oops.
 
Clips can be sent via the internet. It's shameful that WBNG was not able to be fully live sending video. If you're old enough you can remember when it was still WNBF-AM/FM/TV and 12 had a fully operating studio bus. It's terrible that a station that was once an operation that people looked up to, and for that matter WANTED to work for, has been reduced to essentially "phoning it in" during a major crisis. That's very sad.
 
I have to say hat's off to WEBO in Owego...From the bits and pices I heard they did a fantastic job covering things!!
 
BaltimoreJack said:
While the situation is horrible it was great to hear WNBF News Director Bob Joseph on both CNN & Fox. He sounded better than any of their reporters, and unlike the people at CNN & Fox who couldn't even correctly pronounce Binghamton..he sounded excellent!!! Cheers to Bob!!!!! In honor of that, Citadel will probably cut his position tomorrow.
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NYC's WNBC aired a voice clip of Bob Joseph and under his name was "WNDF Radio"

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-Shot-at-Civic-Association-At-Least-40-Held-Hostage.html

2nd video on the left
 
BaltimoreJack said:
Clips can be sent via the internet. It's shameful that WBNG was not able to be fully live sending video. If you're old enough you can remember when it was still WNBF-AM/FM/TV and 12 had a fully operating studio bus. It's terrible that a station that was once an operation that people looked up to, and for that matter WANTED to work for, has been reduced to essentially "phoning it in" during a major crisis. That's very sad.
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Of course, if this had happened back in the Triangle/WNBF radio-TV days, they wouldn't have even had to roll a live truck, since they were just down Front Street in the old Sheraton Hotel.
 
And Bernie and Phil Jacobs and even Ralph Carroll would have been out covering things. And WNBF radio would have had it's entire stable of reporters out on the scene and together they would have been feeding CBS live. Sigh. How the mighty have fallen.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Word has it that 12's sat truck broke down a few months ago and Granite didn't want to pay to get it fixed.

Oops.
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Channel 12's mic flag was all over BBC World News- they must have been there in some regard and sold their footage to the BBC... which is strange, since BBC News is actually affiliated with ABC...
 
They were there...but they couldn't use their Sat truck. That's why stations from Syracuse & Albany had to be relied upon to feed live video from the scene. None of the Bingo stations had the ability to uplink. Shame on Granite for not repairing their truck!
 
I tuned around during the hostage situation. WHWK was playing country, WAAL was playing the classic hits, WINR was playing the standards, WENE/WYOS were doing sports etc. I infequently heard the situation mentioned, but you had to "stick" with the station in order to hear any updates. WNBF was by far providing the most consistent coverage. Bob Joesph took calls from the community during the 4 o'clock hour and received calls from ex-Binghamton broadcasters Steve Cook and Pete Buckey.

It's true that CNN was mispronouncing Binghamton as "Bing-E-ton" and "Bim-ing-ton" On one of his calls to CNN, Bob Joesph was refereed to as Bob "Josey".

WICZ's 10PM's newscast was devoted to the shootings but they also did Mick's weather forecast. WBNG's reporter seemed like an amateur. Where was Candice Chapman during all this?

Both WBNG and WICZ's websites were lagging far behind the current happenings at the American Civic Association. Pressconnects.com's coverage was excellent and even had video of a news reporter seated at a desk relaying information.
 
Cool 100 was also having updates of the shootings but did say that they were playing music to keep the cool of what happened. WICZ never updated that the gunman was dead I found that out on the national news. Is WNBF the only source to get breaking and updated news around here?
 
RadioRicky said:
I tuned around during the hostage situation. WHWK was playing country, WAAL was playing the classic hits, WINR was playing the standards, WENE/WYOS were doing sports etc. I infequently heard the situation mentioned, but you had to "stick" with the station in order to hear any updates. WNBF was by far providing the most consistent coverage. Bob Joesph took calls from the community during the 4 o'clock hour and received calls from ex-Binghamton broadcasters Steve Cook and Pete Buckey.

It's true that CNN was mispronouncing Binghamton as "Bing-E-ton" and "Bim-ing-ton" On one of his calls to CNN, Bob Joesph was refereed to as Bob "Josey".

WICZ's 10PM's newscast was devoted to the shootings but they also did Mick's weather forecast. WBNG's reporter seemed like an amateur. Where was Candice Chapman during all this?

Both WBNG and WICZ's websites were lagging far behind the current happenings at the American Civic Association. Pressconnects.com's coverage was excellent and even had video of a news reporter seated at a desk relaying information.
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Another odd thing was that the NY Post & the NY Daily News websites were miles ahead of the Pressconnects, WBNG or WICZ websites on keeping things up to date. (Actually WJZ-TV in Baltimore's website was almost as up to date as WBNG's) Also, if it wasn't for the fact that Bob Joseph really, truly CARES about news and what is happening, nobody would have heard squat on the radio dial. None of the radio operations with the exception of Citadel (which in itself borders on the unbelieveable!) has an actual news department any longer. It once again shows how little radio owners and operators care about the communities they live in. And..having someone who comes in and re-writes the newspaper or local TV websites for morning show updates does NOT count as having a news department. At least Citadel has kept Bob & Cathy..although as I mentioned earlier, they will probably be thanked by Citadel for their hard work and effort by having THEIR positions cut come Monday! I am sure the people at 12 & 40 did the best they could, but they no longer have any true support from station management for their efforts. It used to be that you would know the influence & quality of a TV or Radio station by the strength of it's news department. Unfortunately that is no longer true. I have also noticed that no one has mentioned TV-34 anywhere in these posts. While 34 was always considered the "also ran" no matter who owned it, did they launch any sort of real response to the crisis, or did they just keep on running General Hospital?
 
Re: Hostage Situation on 131 Front Street - WEBO - Owego

WEBO 1330 and 107.9 in Owego had by FAR the best coverage in this whole area. While WNBF was airing Rush, WEBO had "wall to wall coverage" .. no music, just coverage constantly and live feeds from "News 10 Now", their partner. They even were interviewed on KABC in Los Angles. Dave Radigan, the owner and Chris Schmidt, News Dir. did an outstanding job. I hope some of you had a chance to listen to them and will eventually give them proper credit. They are not a Binghamton station but do and have been doing a much better job covering the news in this region than any other station. Give them a listen and hear what I mean!
 
101.7 had more reports than music it seemed. They had someone live at the scene. It was a woman. I thought they did a good job. I know WNBF probably did a good job.
 
Interestingly, NPR tapped WSKG radio at first for updates during the early runs of All Things Considered, but soon moved to reports from WAER and, I believe, WRVO reporters. By Weekend Edition on Saturday, the TOH newscast report was from WAER, and the "in depth" story in the A Segment was from North Country Public Radio.
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Pretty depressing that neither the local station (WSKG) nor the nearest NPR news outlet (WEOS) apparently were making the grade.
 
webcastboy said:
Interestingly, NPR tapped WSKG radio at first for updates during the early runs of All Things Considered, but soon moved to reports from WAER and, I believe, WRVO reporters. By Weekend Edition on Saturday, the TOH newscast report was from WAER, and the "in depth" story in the A Segment was from North Country Public Radio.
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Pretty depressing that neither the local station (WSKG) nor the nearest NPR news outlet (WEOS) apparently were making the grade.
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I would hardly rely on the Audio Division of the Democratic Party for much of anything except bias. I'd take WNBF anytime.
 
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