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Hurricane Irene Local Coverage Thread
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The wind is making it a real challenge to keep Richmond locked in. The Roanoke locals aren't doing anything at all since it's mostly outside their area. NBC29 Charlottesville isn't doing anything either.
WRIC is airing a crawl on top of baseball.
WTVR has this: http://www.rabbitears.info/screencaps/1-temp/WTKRonWTVR.png
WRLH has nothing.
I can't receive WWBT.
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WRIC is airing a crawl on top of baseball.
WTVR has this: http://www.rabbitears.info/screencaps/1-temp/WTKRonWTVR.png
WRLH has nothing.
I can't receive WWBT.
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Wall to wall coverage on all the Philadelphia affiliates: CBS3, 6ABC, NBC10, FOX29
Can't really say which one's the best or worst... they're all pretty much the same. I flip back and forth among all of them, as well as the national coverage on The Weather Channel, CNN, and Fox News. Might be some overkill and sensationalism, but so what? How often do we get an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week?
Can't really say which one's the best or worst... they're all pretty much the same. I flip back and forth among all of them, as well as the national coverage on The Weather Channel, CNN, and Fox News. Might be some overkill and sensationalism, but so what? How often do we get an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week?
Don't know about best, but this could go down as most unusual, clever, creative, etc.: Belo station WVEC 13 Norfolk VA is being fed to secondary subchannels of other Belo stations. The feed replaced the weather loop at WFAA 8.2 in Dallas, and KASW in Phoenix created a whole new subchannel on 61.2 to show it.
Much of the coverage overnight was either blank or a view of the city from a camera mounted on a building or tower, but occasionally, they would break in with local weather reports, such as when tornado warnings were issued in the 2am hour last night, and they sent out their expanded local 11pm newscast as well. Today, WVEC is providing wall-to-wall coverage.
Not all Belo stations are taking the WVEC feed. KVUE in Austin TX and KENS in San Antonio TX are reported to not be taking it, and I've confirmed that neither of the Tucson Belo stations, KMSB or KTTU, are taking it.
Much of the coverage overnight was either blank or a view of the city from a camera mounted on a building or tower, but occasionally, they would break in with local weather reports, such as when tornado warnings were issued in the 2am hour last night, and they sent out their expanded local 11pm newscast as well. Today, WVEC is providing wall-to-wall coverage.
Not all Belo stations are taking the WVEC feed. KVUE in Austin TX and KENS in San Antonio TX are reported to not be taking it, and I've confirmed that neither of the Tucson Belo stations, KMSB or KTTU, are taking it.
Here in New York, cable-only NY1 (and News 12 I'd assume, as I don't have access to them in Queens) and the Big Four O&Os have been wall-to-wall since early this morning. I've been tuned mostly to WABC-TV and NY1.
WPIX did not come on until after Noon, I guess. Their block of anime cartoons was more important than a weather emergency.
WWOR-TV was, of course, simulcasting WNYW's coverage, but as I'm writing this they have broken away and doing their own update.
Even worse was the non-presence of the two big Spanish-language stations, WXTV and WNJU-TV, though the latter is now providing coverage via its network, Telemundo.
Suburban indies WLNY-TV and WMBC-TV are doing NOTHING aside from screen crawls. Along with WRNN (which i can't get here), their news departments are closed on weekends.
WPIX did not come on until after Noon, I guess. Their block of anime cartoons was more important than a weather emergency.
WWOR-TV was, of course, simulcasting WNYW's coverage, but as I'm writing this they have broken away and doing their own update.
Even worse was the non-presence of the two big Spanish-language stations, WXTV and WNJU-TV, though the latter is now providing coverage via its network, Telemundo.
Suburban indies WLNY-TV and WMBC-TV are doing NOTHING aside from screen crawls. Along with WRNN (which i can't get here), their news departments are closed on weekends.
Pat Cook said:WHY would they? They're NOWHERE NEAR the hurricane. As such, the story doesn't interest themdhett said:
Cheers
Not everyone is so self-centered as to only be interested in what immediately affects them. That having been said, Dallas is the HQ for Belo and WFAA its flagship station, so why not? Most people in Phoenix are from somewhere else, so the hurricane is more likely to be of interest to people here. Myself, I have a cousin in Va. Beach, so there ya go.
Piece of friendly advice: knock off the caps lock, the bold and the underlining. You've been online long enough that you should know how rude that's perceived to be.
This thread started with....
"Who's doing live LOCAL coverage? Who's doing the best? Who's doing the worst?"
and the same poster says...
"Piece of friendly advice: knock off the caps lock, the bold and the underlining. You've been online long enough that you should know how rude that's perceived to be."
So its the underlining that's rude? Okay.
BTW, I live in Dallas, where Belo's WFAA-Channel 8 is currently carrying the Little League Wold Series, as they should be.
WFAA gets a lot of their feeds from CNN, which I can flip to when the LLWS gets out of hand...and weather wise, WFAA took a huge hit for failing to cover a massive storm with tornados all over the DFW area, opting to keep Dancing With The Stars on.
"Who's doing live LOCAL coverage? Who's doing the best? Who's doing the worst?"
and the same poster says...
"Piece of friendly advice: knock off the caps lock, the bold and the underlining. You've been online long enough that you should know how rude that's perceived to be."
So its the underlining that's rude? Okay.
BTW, I live in Dallas, where Belo's WFAA-Channel 8 is currently carrying the Little League Wold Series, as they should be.
WFAA gets a lot of their feeds from CNN, which I can flip to when the LLWS gets out of hand...and weather wise, WFAA took a huge hit for failing to cover a massive storm with tornados all over the DFW area, opting to keep Dancing With The Stars on.
JeeperOne
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Switch to 8.2 if you can as that's where the coverage isThe_X_Man_Cometh said:
It likely won't affect the LLWS as it's far enough inland that the worst thing that may happen is the occasional rain shower
I recall that. Meanwhile KDFW 4 didn't even have news anchors that night as their whole newscast was anchored by the weather guys with a near constant showing of their radar when they were showing live shots
BTW.....FOX29's online stream just suddenly went from the weather report to a cam & equally as suddenly went back to weather
Cheers
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