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KIRO-TV ON SUPER ALL DAY MARATHON OF SNOW NEWS!

Bongwater

Bongwater

Did anybody watch KIRO-TV today?

(My hat is off to the live and local radio personnel, wherever you are, who showed up bright-eyed and bushy tailed regardless of the hell they had to go through to get to their stations....)

But anyway, I have kept the TV on KIRO-TV all day long (I'm currently in Burlington and I'm feeding off antennae and a local translator.) Since 4:00 AM, and it's STILL going live and strong, KIRO-TV (main, 7.1) has aired wall to wall snow coverage and NOTHING else. Few commercials (all the regular CBS daily programs temporarily moved to KIRO 7.2)

This is EASILY the most MAMMOTH local TV weather related broadcast I have EVER witnessed.....

Was it really this bad?
 
I know the "big three" all did all-day coverage.
I was most impressed by a FaceBook post from KING showing a stack of Pagliacchi pizzas in their newsroom mid-afternoon!
All the way around a bunch of pro's who stepped up to do an awesome job today.
 
Though I live in Phoenix, I watched the streaming live coverage all day yesterday on KING5.com and KIRO7.com! Great job by Seattle journalists!
 
I watched quite a bit of KIRO, from about 9am-7pm last night, before going to CBS primetime at 8. All regular programming was pre-empted to 7.2 (RTV), which I did NOT see Entertainment Tonight on, because at 7 they show a repeat of the 6pm news! KOMO was on until about 1pm, and KING had live coverage until about 7pm as well. JEERS to KCPQ, I saw regular programming until 4pm (not good for a snowstorm) when they showed their 5pm newscast 1 hour earlier. Today however with all the freezing rain KOMO, KING and KIRO are back with live coverage through the morning (right now preempting The View, Today and Price is Right, which moved to 7.2), and KCPQ has coverage preempting Jerry Springer (that's the first time during this storm that they have continued their morning newscast past 10am)

-crainbebo
 
How do you guys think radio is doing in all this? I've been practically glooed to KOMO the last few days and have found there coverage to be quite repetative.
 
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