I fell asleep listening online to WUSF-FM from Tampa, they have good coverage of what's going on and ran a live news conference this morning.
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Hurricane Milton TV Coverage in Tampa
- Thread starter Y2kTheNewOldies
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also posted in RADIO - MARKETS / REGIONS for Tampa Bay,
To all of you here in the radio-discussion group that live in the affected areas, I hope you, your family and friends did well during and are doing well after hurricane.
I been following it on DIRECTV.
DIRECTV during real bad weather shows the TV stations from the affected areas and switches between them. They put these TV stations on near The Weather Channel & AccuWeather Channels, around Channel 361.
I think you'd also be able to see the stations via the Internet on DIRECTV streaming service (if you subscribe) or maybe the TV stations have their complete signal on the Internet, don't know if a TV station does that?
During and after Milton DIRECTV showed (they still are showing them at 11AM (10/10) the day after Milton went thru area) the Tampa TV stations, the Orlando TV stations and the Fort Meyers TV stations, all covering the storm.
Nice feature they offer all subscribers during bad weather in an area.
It looks like the TV stations were on the air the whole time, they never said they were off the air or lost power at studio or transmitter, they also all promoted heavily that if a person loses power at their house and can't watch TV, to tune to the following radio stations, they'd then show a list of radio stations that are simulcasting the TV stations audio.
Don't know how radio did by staying on the air, anybody in area know?
TV stations also reported that power, cell phone and Internet service in areas was affected, some areas were OK, some not.
I also heard some TV stations tell viewers to keep turn their phones off, unless you need to make a call, to conserve power in it, if a person loses power in their home and then can't charge their phone, if you needed phone and hopefully have cell service in your area you could at least make an emergency call.
I thought this might not be a great idea, better maybe to just leave it in stand-by mode and not mess with it . . . in other words don't take a picture or pictures with it, like of yourself eating a hamburger during the storm and trying to post it . . . you're wasting its battery power!
The OTA (Over The Air) TV stations I saw were doing a great job with their coverage, people in the studios, crews out in the storm before, during (being careful) and after all did an excellent job.
To all of you here in the radio-discussion group that live in the affected areas, I hope you, your family and friends did well during and are doing well after hurricane.
I been following it on DIRECTV.
DIRECTV during real bad weather shows the TV stations from the affected areas and switches between them. They put these TV stations on near The Weather Channel & AccuWeather Channels, around Channel 361.
I think you'd also be able to see the stations via the Internet on DIRECTV streaming service (if you subscribe) or maybe the TV stations have their complete signal on the Internet, don't know if a TV station does that?
During and after Milton DIRECTV showed (they still are showing them at 11AM (10/10) the day after Milton went thru area) the Tampa TV stations, the Orlando TV stations and the Fort Meyers TV stations, all covering the storm.
Nice feature they offer all subscribers during bad weather in an area.
It looks like the TV stations were on the air the whole time, they never said they were off the air or lost power at studio or transmitter, they also all promoted heavily that if a person loses power at their house and can't watch TV, to tune to the following radio stations, they'd then show a list of radio stations that are simulcasting the TV stations audio.
Don't know how radio did by staying on the air, anybody in area know?
TV stations also reported that power, cell phone and Internet service in areas was affected, some areas were OK, some not.
I also heard some TV stations tell viewers to keep turn their phones off, unless you need to make a call, to conserve power in it, if a person loses power in their home and then can't charge their phone, if you needed phone and hopefully have cell service in your area you could at least make an emergency call.
I thought this might not be a great idea, better maybe to just leave it in stand-by mode and not mess with it . . . in other words don't take a picture or pictures with it, like of yourself eating a hamburger during the storm and trying to post it . . . you're wasting its battery power!
The OTA (Over The Air) TV stations I saw were doing a great job with their coverage, people in the studios, crews out in the storm before, during (being careful) and after all did an excellent job.
More parts of Florida are reporting deaths from Hurricane Milton.
I just read on WINK TV’s website that because people listened when they were told to evacuate, there were no fatalities in Lee County.
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