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If a tornado hits during a Reds night game, will we hear about it on the radio?

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brian65

Just curious if arrangements have been made in advance about cutting into a Reds broadcast to provide storm coverage.

I am talking about providing information to people in the greater Cincinnati area, say for example Moscow in southern Clermont County.

If a tornado hits about 8pm in a weeknight....will Dave Ramsey help us? Marty? the Cowboy?

Once the power goes out, usually so does any TV information.
 
In the past, WLW has interupted Reds broadcasts with severe weather information. That came from its studios with the newsman on duty reporting the information rather than from the pressbox by one of the play-by-play announcers. This interuption on WLW was only heard on that station and the rest of the stations on Reds network still received the game coverage.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
In the past, WLW has interupted Reds broadcasts with severe weather information. That came from its studios with the newsman on duty reporting the information rather than from the pressbox by one of the play-by-play announcers. This interuption on WLW was only heard on that station and the rest of the stations on Reds network still received the game coverage.
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If I recall, Reds took their radio network production in house a few years back. That being the case, the games are not produced at WLW's studios anymore, they are produced at the studio in Great American Ballpark. WLW is just another affiliate now, like every other station. There's no reason they cannot break in for any kind of news coverage and inturrupt the feed for the game. They just have to have the manpower to do so.
 
I know in the past they provided the Audio from Channel 5 I think.

That seemed to get the info out pretty well.
 
I remember trying to find information on the radio during Hurricane Ike back in 2008, and getting frustrated because WLW had a Reds game on and only occasionally broke in to give updates. I remember thinking that if they simply couldn't/wouldn't interrupt the Reds or Bengals games, they could at least break in on WKRC, because I doubt anyone would get upset that they couldn't hear their favorite gardening/home improvement/investment show.
 
brian65 said:
Just curious if arrangements have been made in advance about cutting into a Reds broadcast to provide storm coverage.

I am talking about providing information to people in the greater Cincinnati area, say for example Moscow in southern Clermont County.

If a tornado hits about 8pm in a weeknight....will Dave Ramsey help us? Marty? the Cowboy?

Once the power goes out, usually so does any TV information.
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Yes, the arrangements are called "The Emergency Alert System".

WLW is the LP1 EAS station for southwest Ohio, and an important relay station for the state as well as Kentucky and Indiana. You can bet they will relay the tornado information.

Now..will they go wall to wall to interrupt the Red game? Maybe/ maybe not. I'd say probably so.


And BTW- the IBOC delay is only 8 seconds. That's not a big deal. It will probably still beat TV. ;)
 
almaniac27 said:
I remember trying to find information on the radio during Hurricane Ike back in 2008, and getting frustrated because WLW had a Reds game on and only occasionally broke in to give updates. I remember thinking that if they simply couldn't/wouldn't interrupt the Reds or Bengals games, they could at least break in on WKRC, because I doubt anyone would get upset that they couldn't hear their favorite gardening/home improvement/investment show.
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Yeah. The Ike situation was very frustrating. I think because there was widespread loss of power.....and hardly any info coming out of the only 2 AM stations I can reliably pick up.

Since then I've bought a small portable TV (lasts about 3 hours) and a generator.
 
Darryl Parks did say in retrospect, WLW should have bumped the Reds game and gone wall-to-wall much sooner. Once they did their coverage was excellent. WHIO was on it wall to wall by the 4pm hour if not sooner, and dropped 2 days worth of syndicated shows for continuous coverage. Cox does an excellent job.

I thought WLW was shutting off the iBoc during Reds games for the benefit of fans in the stadium with radios. (Bat cracks...then cracks in your ear in 8 seconds...would be annoying). I do remember running the board at a Reds affiliate in the 70s and they sent weather alerts down the network line.
 
almaniac27 said:
I remember trying to find information on the radio during Hurricane Ike back in 2008, and getting frustrated because WLW had a Reds game on and only occasionally broke in to give updates. I remember thinking that if they simply couldn't/wouldn't interrupt the Reds or Bengals games, they could at least break in on WKRC, because I doubt anyone would get upset that they couldn't hear their favorite gardening/home improvement/investment show.
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Reds or Bengals? I was driving back from a Bengals' game when Ike was blowing across the area. I was very surprised to hear WHAS covering the storm.
 
I've slept since then as I recall the Reds were still on WLW, even though the Bengals were playing and on WEBN. This was the second week of September. A casualty by the way was WXEG's X-fest.
 
The Bengals home game was on both WCKY and WEBN while WLW had the Reds game at Arizona on Sunday, September 14, 2008 when the high winds came. The Reds game went ten innings, but as I remember, their post-game programming was shortened so the news and information on the storm could be aired on WLW.
 
Even when a station is the flagship of a sports team they have the ability to interrupt for severe weather... Sports programming originates out a separate studio and is up-linked to satellite for the network stations... so it would be possible for the local flagship to go on air from their studio -- bypassing the network feed and airing their own local programming (even if they are the originators of the network --

I don't know of any current major league sports networks that just "up-link" the on air feed... (since the networks have to take out the legal ids, local commercials etc..) -- usually sending up "silence" or "crowd noise" on the network feed to the affiliates.
 
When Gary Burbarnk was syndicated, Reds day games went out on WLW and Gary Burbank went out to his affiliates. If Burbank did a local bit (All My Bengals for example), the net got a recorded Gilbert Gnarly or Senseless Survey. Splitting the feed is no problem
 
Bengalsfan said:
almaniac27 said:
I remember trying to find information on the radio during Hurricane Ike back in 2008, and getting frustrated because WLW had a Reds game on and only occasionally broke in to give updates. I remember thinking that if they simply couldn't/wouldn't interrupt the Reds or Bengals games, they could at least break in on WKRC, because I doubt anyone would get upset that they couldn't hear their favorite gardening/home improvement/investment show.
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Reds or Bengals? I was driving back from a Bengals' game when Ike was blowing across the area. I was very surprised to hear WHAS covering the storm.
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IIRC the late Francene is the one to thank for WHAS' coverage of Ike. She was in the studio doing some show prep, saw what was happening, and went live covering the event.
 
jry said:
Delayed, of course, thanks to IBOC.
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I was in Cincy a couple of weeks ago. I don't recall the IBOC being turned on; am I mistaken?
 
KyDXIn said:
IIRC the late Francene is the one to thank for WHAS' coverage of Ike. She was in the studio doing some show prep, saw what was happening, and went live covering the event.
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That is what she told me. And indeed had she not just so happened to be in the studio that day, we would have been treated to reruns of Dave Ramsey while the rest of the world around us was being blown away.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
The Bengals home game was on both WCKY and WEBN while WLW had the Reds game at Arizona on Sunday, September 14, 2008 when the high winds came. The Reds game went ten innings, but as I remember, their post-game programming was shortened so the news and information on the storm could be aired on WLW.
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That's plausable. I recall listening to just a few minutes of the post game show until I realized something was going on. Just so happened to land on WHAS and they were surprisingly covering the event.
 
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