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Kudos to WDEL for LIVE storm coverage.

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Listening to WDEL tonight via their mobile app, the coverage by Brian Smith and Alan Loudell was superb. Using sister station personnel, CBS reporters and state & local officials was exactly what I needed to stay up to date from afar
. Weather too of course. Sure it's what we used to expect, but in this media economy and on a weekend no less,give them their due credit.
 
I agree totally, GREAT job WDEL. I scanned the dial, WWTX and WILM were on the bird carrying their usual programing. I don't know if WDOV did any coverage for Kent County. So WDEL has become the ONLY Wilmington station to count on in a real emergency.
 
I just checked out WDOV and WGMD online, and clicked on the listen live button for each station and they are airing their normal programming too. Now maybe WILM, WDOV, and WGMD were doing some sort of reporting earlier in the evening (It's 12:30am, but WDEL is still going strong with coverage).
 
WGMD hasn't run anything off the satellite other than top of the hour news since Coast ended on early Saturday morning. Live 24 hours. Even overnight.
 
WGMD hasn't run anything off the satellite other than top of the hour news since Coast ended on early Saturday morning. Live 24 hours. Even overnight.

When I checked out the online WGMD there was a telephone talk show airing, talking about something that didn't seem related to the hurricane, so I assumed it was the normal programming. Thanks for the upgrade.

So it would appear that WDEL upstate and WGMD in Lower Delaware, were offering local wall to wall coverage. Apparently CC Delaware (WILM/WDOV/WWTX) were missing in action in that respect. Of course, for those who didn't want to hear storm coverage, the CC cluster offered their normal programming. It would be intersting to see the numbers for WDEL vs WILM/WWTX during the storm hours. I don't think WDOV is much of a player in Sussex County, so WGMD probably doesn't have any news/talk competitors (that I know of).
 
Clear Channel out of Salisbury ran simlucast of WBOC channel 16. 16 also offered their coverage to other stations as well.
 
The problem we face in New Castle County is that we only have one radio station with a news staff. WILM/WDOV is one person in Wilmington and one in Dover. And those two apparently had no interest in working a weekend shift (no money for overtime). WWTX has no staff at all. There would be no one available to go on air with info, even if they had someone to gather the info.

The staff at WDEL did an outstanding job. Of course, they always do. But we need to remember that one day, they could be like WILM with a bare bones staff and no one who really gives a hoot because they aren't being paid to care. Without a good advertisor/revenue base, WDEL could be in the same condition. I pray that doesn't happen in my lifetime.
 
One thing that might happen down the road a piece, would be for WSTW to go back to being WDEL-FM and become the news/talker with AM 1150 simulcasting from the FM and online as will be the case in Philly with 94.1/610 WIP FM/AM for Sports Talk and already is the case for WPEN FM/AM 97.5 /950 the Fanatic. For now though it appears that both WDEL AM and WSTW-FM are making money separately, but as music formats seem to be dieing off as the younger demo's turn less to radio even FM, 93.7's eventual path may be News/Talk 93.7 with 1150 simulcasting.
 
Dont forget the DBC stations in central de. Eagle 97.7 Cool 101.3 and la extoisa we all live 24/7 throughout the whole storm from what seemed very early Saturday morning, Interested to see yet again the great scott stations the beach big oc 104 were all of the air again over the weekend. just like they were during the snow storm, which was very funny as in OC last week there was a piece in a magazine about how great scott prides themselves on local radio. They are a joke.
 
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