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How Would You Grade Radio During The Tyler, TX Tornado?

The Townsquare stations simulcasted KLTV's audio during the weather event. My Directv was out for about 2 hours due to rain fade, the most it has ever been out in a single event. I was able to get KLTV's digital channel over the air, but VHF digital has a lot of issues with lightning, so it was pixellating and breaking up severely. I watched KLTV's video on the tv and listened to the audio over KNUE. Also, the Longview East Texas Amateur Radio Club (LETARC) had their storm net up on 444.725 MHz, but the conditions were so bad that even they were not sending their storm spotters out to report, they were all reporting from their homes.

The pics of the tornado near Mabank on kltv.com are quite impressive. It looks like something you would see in Oklahoma or Kansas, not East Texas.
 
very disappointing when other stations can't break format with weather updates. Listeners STILL depend on radio when weather gets out of hand. IMHO- those that did not break format think they were winning by playing music. Wrong! It's lazy and poor programming.
Hat's off to Townsquare Media for their coverage.
 
Outbreaks like yesterday happen about once every 20 years...and you can't be persuaded to quit playing the hits??? There were tornado warnings basically from 4-10pm solid. Even in this day & age of no news personnel and cutbacks, you can flip the switch to the TV feed. Ch 19 and 56 were still running regular programming. PISSPOOR job.
 
johnqdoe said:
Even in this day & age of no news personnel and cutbacks, you can flip the switch to the TV feed.
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Not without the express permission of the TV stations in question. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, most of those deals are "exclusive" and hinge on other arrangements (usually swap outs or other financial considerations) throughout the year.
 
Chuck said:
johnqdoe said:
Even in this day & age of no news personnel and cutbacks, you can flip the switch to the TV feed.
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Not without the express permission of the TV stations in question. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, most of those deals are "exclusive" and hinge on other arrangements (usually swap outs or other financial considerations) throughout the year.
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I realize you can't just flip the switch & run TV audio whenever you want. But these radio stations do have agreements with TV stations. you just about HAVE to nowadays with no news departments.
 
johnqdoe said:
But these radio stations do have agreements with TV stations.
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Actually, "no." Most radio stations in the area don't have any kind of working agreements with the TV stations. It is just the bigger clusters. It all has to do with swap-out advertising and cross-promotion.

Even though there are quite a few TV stations in the area, there are only three that originate news of any kind, even though that news may be seen on several channels.
 
It's probably because alot of stations in Tyler/Longview are syndicated at night and couldnt stop the music because its not live. 95.3/102.3 The Breeze kept everyone updated! But I think they were off the air do to the weather in Tyler :)
 
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