• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Houston TV streams for Ike

Even though the audio is on one channel, I like KHOU. Clear picture from the HD feed. Very informative with the half hourly updates. Also, a nice touch was taking calls last night to get pretty much a neighborhood-level view of what was coming and very informative with hurricanes as a whole. Plus, big props for hiring Dr. Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center. (on my original post, I had forgotten to mention the KHOU-TV feed is on XM's Emergency Alert channel, 247 - also promoted on the KHOU stream)

KPRZ times out after about 5 minutes, so that's no good if you want to watch/keep the audio on 24/7.

KRIV feed is very choppy at times, and not 24/7. Also, when I first started following the coverage, KTRK was not doing 24/7 coverage at that time (and that was this AM).
 
Big thumbs down to ABC News Now! They went to wall to wall simulcast with KTRK, but only AFTER the storm made landfall! I remember them going W2W with Charley coverage before landfall from their Tampa station. They dropped the ball on this one. Same with (P)MSNBC not dipping into KPRZ coverage. Or FOX with KRIV. Guess they were waiting for another Geraldo/Gustav moment ("There's a person in the water, godammit!!!")
 
Rockin Rob said:
Big thumbs down to ABC News Now! They went to wall to wall simulcast with KTRK, but only AFTER the storm made landfall! I remember them going W2W with Charley coverage before landfall from their Tampa station. They dropped the ball on this one. Same with (P)MSNBC not dipping into KPRZ coverage. Or FOX with KRIV. Guess they were waiting for another Geraldo/Gustav moment ("There's a person in the water, godammit!!!")
Click to expand...

Actually, they had a "person in the water" moment....it was Geraldo which we would have missed if they had taken your advice.

Of course, then ABC News Now would have missed the most deadly train accident in the US in 2 decades - and truth be told, there wasn't anything to show for the most part until after landfall.
 
I was looking at KHOU's coverage of Ike. They did a first class job and was much better info than listening to Fox news wall to wall coverage. Kudos to Directv putting KHOU on channel 361.
 
11's back up. Anchors said their genereator failed, then the backup to the backup generator failed. Looks like they're back on the "main" backup.
 
richllewis said:
I was looking at KHOU's coverage of Ike. They did a first class job and was much better info than listening to Fox news wall to wall coverage. Kudos to Directv putting KHOU on channel 361.
Click to expand...

I read on one of the DirecTV forums that FEMA has a hand in deciding which local goes up for the nationwide sat service. Anybody have any insight into this?

I appreciate this service since I live out of the area for both of the recent storms. I still have family in SE Louisiana and my daughter lives in Katy.
 
I'm mad that they took the feed off on KHOU, as it was a great feed to watch, with Gene Norman doing a good job with coverage, along with the news anchors.

It was there Sunday night, but they took it off overnight Sunday night.
 
charlestondxman said:
I'm mad that they took the feed off on KHOU, as it was a great feed to watch, with Gene Norman doing a good job with coverage, along with the news anchors.

It was there Sunday night, but they took it off overnight Sunday night.
Click to expand...

ABC 13 is still streaming from their website. They've had definitely some of the best coverage from the storm, with reporters everywhere, and even reporters from sister stations (such as Catalina Leid from WABC/New York) out and on the ground in the area.
 
I watched KTRK 13 over the web and got great coverage. KHOU wouldn't stream on Firefox in Linux for some reason, but ABC13 worked marvelously. Kept me informed on what the folks back in H-town were dealing with. Kudos!
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom