Hurricane Irene Local Coverage Thread

[Wright County Guy]

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.

I think that this is a wonderful idea for a subchannel. I wish the Gannett station here in Minneapolis (KARE) would have taken Gannett's Washington station's (WUSA) coverage on their weather subchannel. Why not?

 

[Mainedude2007]

Any chance any TV station,, in the area, may be streaming coverage online?

I think it's safe to say all the major network affils in DC, Philly and NYC are streaming their newscasts at this point...Boston will join in by Morning

 

[Jazz_Kat]

We are watching WPIX and WWOR/FOX 5 coverage here in Tennessee. I'm pretty sure everyone is doing their best at all of the stations. We wish everyone the best during this.

 

[JeeperOne]

Any chance any TV station,, in the area, may be streaming coverage online?

I think it's safe to say all the major network affils in DC, Philly and NYC are streaming their newscasts at this point

Not quite the case in Philly as Fox 29 is the only one streaming (Supposedly NBC 10 had one but I couldn't get the player to load)

...Boston will join in by Morning

Most likely it'll only be just WHDH/WLVI & WFXT though. CBS doesn't believe in streaming any of its TV stations & I highly doubt WCVB will put up a stream

But I've been proven wrong before.....

Cheers

 

[crainbebo]

WCBS 2 is doing a GREAT job of tracking these storms! Kudos to anchor Chris Wragge and reporter Tony Aiello in Mobile 2 of describing us what's going on in Manhattan and other areas.

I also saw WPIX is streaming too, but WCBS has the best coverage I've seen this evening. Probably not going to switch to WABC tonight...

-crainbebo

 

[JayR]

Any chance any TV station,, in the area, may be streaming coverage online?

I think it's safe to say all the major network affils in DC, Philly and NYC are streaming their newscasts at this point

Not quite the case in Philly as Fox 29 is the only one streaming (Supposedly NBC 10 had one but I couldn't get the player to load)

Not true. Both WPVI 6ABC and KYW CBS 3 (along with WCAU NBC 10) are streaming; however, WPVI's stream is the clearest and consistent of the three I mentioned. KYW's comes in and out.

 

[Mario500]

The CBS News Live Stream today had "CBS News Sunday Morning", "Face the Nation", and "Irene Strikes" (a special network report) with broadcasts from WCBS-TV in New York, New York in between. Here is an address to the stream:

http://www2.wkrg.com/live/cbs/

 

[ssetta]

I actually saw a clip from WCBS where it was so windy and the waves were so strong they had to move to another location, and the reporter dropped the mic in the water, and it made a huge Plop!

 

[crainbebo]

I don't think I saw that. I went to bed and shut it off around 3AM (Eastern time).

-crainbebo

 

[JeeperOne]

Any chance any TV station,, in the area, may be streaming coverage online?

I think it's safe to say all the major network affils in DC, Philly and NYC are streaming their newscasts at this point

Not quite the case in Philly as Fox 29 is the only one streaming (Supposedly NBC 10 had one but I couldn't get the player to load)

Not true. Both WPVI 6ABC and KYW CBS 3 (along with WCAU NBC 10) are streaming; however, WPVI's stream is the clearest and consistent of the three I mentioned. KYW's comes in and out.

CBS 3 is streaming reliably now

As for the NBC O&O's, I'm not sure why I couldn't get those to load, which is why I said they supposedly had streams set up (Might have a plugin missing somewhere as I couldn't get WCVB or WMUR either)

Haven't checked WPVI since yesterday however I found that WPRI 12 in Providence is now streaming also

Cheers

 

[radiolives]

It might be okay if like HLN shows like coverage from another Station.

Would have liked them to show more CBS 2 New York coverage then WABC. Also I was surprised for Boston they were using WHDH which is Boston's NBC affilate. Figure they use WBZ 4.

 

[mgsports]

CNBC and FBC had regular programming on.