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KPRC A Disaster Expert, But Pandemic’s Different

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KPRC in Houston is no stranger to calamity. The Graham Media-owned NBC affiliate has weathered hurricanes and flooding, its building always ready for a lockdown and housing staffers riding out a storm.

“We have got those plans in place,” says VP and GM Jerry Martin. “But I don’t think we ever contemplated what a pandemic would look like. The last one we had was in 1918, so, yeah.”

Now that the coronavirus has forced the station, like all others, to make a fast-evolving plan, Martin says the tenor is different than KPRC’s past dances with disaster.
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https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/246860/kprc-a-disaster-veteran-but-pandemics-different/

Here is a profile on KPRC-TV's handling of COVID-19 coverage.
 
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