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"News" stations?

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rbrucecarter5

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Give me a freakin' break. Severe thunderstorms for the first time in 222 days, thousands of people without power, street flooding. Still satellite syndicated programming and 2 minutes of traffic. Then back to coverage of hurricane Irene, political tirades, mindless sports, take your pick of stations. All useless for news. Thankfully the electricity came back on - so I could get some NEWS.

NEWS on a NEWS station. What a concept. Maybe somebody will get the idea one day.
 
KTRH's slogan now is 'Ignorance is Bliss'.

Other markets have top billing, all news stations. In some caes, all news stations on FM, and I'm not talking about pubic radio or NPR. When will Houston be saved from this mediocrity?
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
Give me a freakin' break. Severe thunderstorms for the first time in 222 days, thousands of people without power, street flooding. Still satellite syndicated programming and 2 minutes of traffic. Then back to coverage of hurricane Irene, political tirades, mindless sports, take your pick of stations. All useless for news. Thankfully the electricity came back on - so I could get some NEWS.

NEWS on a NEWS station. What a concept. Maybe somebody will get the idea one day.
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I was starting to wonder where you were Bruce!
 
What exactly were they supposed to report? "We now bring you continuing coverage of DeathRain 2011!!!"

Sure, it rained, but it wasn't exactly a huge weather event. The National Weather Service only issued two severe thunderstorm warnings the entire night. KTRH broadcast both of them.

I was driving across Houston on I-10 when this was all happening. The storms weren't anywhere near severe enough to merit wall to wall coverage. If they had posed a significant threat to life or property, the NWS would have been going nuts with watches and warnings. They weren't.

If the National Weather Service didn't think it was that important, why should the stations?
 
Give me a freakin' break. Severe thunderstorms for the first time in 222 days, thousands of people without power, street flooding. Still satellite syndicated programming and 2 minutes of traffic. Then back to coverage of hurricane Irene, political tirades, mindless sports, take your pick of stations. All useless for news. Thankfully the electricity came back on - so I could get some NEWS. NEWS on a NEWS station.What a concept. Maybe somebody will get the idea one day.

Seems to me you didn't need a radio station to tell you it was raining and that your power was off. What more did you need to know? Do you need some radio announcer to tell you to stay indoors and avoid the streets that always fill up with runoff every time it rains? Anybody who spends any time at all on Houston streets knows which streets I'm talking about.

Why does a radio station need live team reports to waste perfectly good air time telling their listeners what they already know? I can understand extended news and live reports during hurricanes and severe weather, but spending more than 30 seconds on ordinary rainy weather is time wasted and a tune-out for me.
 
FilioScotia said:
Why does a radio station need live team reports to waste perfectly good air time telling their listeners what they already know? I can understand extended news and live reports during hurricanes and severe weather, but spending more than 30 seconds on ordinary rainy weather is time wasted and a tune-out for me.
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Amen. If I can look out the window and figure out what's going on, I don't need someone to break in and state the obvious over and over ad nauseam. Save that for an actual emergency.
 
We'll see what you all have to say when the hurricane hits and you're cursing the lack of information being given to you about what's happening by Limbaugh, Beck, Vanity, or the local wingnuts. Maybe your portable tv will even be functional where you don't need radio. Good luck!
 
stan said:
We'll see what you all have to say when the hurricane hits and you're cursing the lack of information being given to you about what's happening by Limbaugh, Beck, Vanity, or the local wingnuts. Maybe your portable tv will even be functional where you don't need radio. Good luck!
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Don't see that happening. KTRH went wall to wall coverage when Ike hit, just as they should have, and I suspect they would do the same when the next one hits.
 
Listen to 1010 WINS in New York for some fond memories of what KTRH was like years ago before it was ruined by Cheap Channel. Their hurricane coverage is a sad reminder of we once had here.
 
stan said:
Listen to 1010 WINS in New York for some fond memories of what KTRH was like years ago before it was ruined by Cheap Channel. Their hurricane coverage is a sad reminder of we once had here.
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Oh, so what you're saying is KTRH used to be a boring radio station?
 
Did you find their hurricane coverage and information boring? It sounded like they had a full, competent news staff covering the various aspects of the storm. If there is a hurricane that hits our area, what news staff is left at KTRH to cover the event? Perhaps they can press Michael Berry and Walter and Johnson into service as 'reporters'.
 
stan said:
Did you find their hurricane coverage and information boring? It sounded like they had a full, competent news staff covering the various aspects of the storm. If there is a hurricane that hits our area, what news staff is left at KTRH to cover the event? Perhaps they can press Michael Berry and Walter and Johnson into service as 'reporters'.
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I find all news stations to be boring in general.

Clear Channel is a big company with big resources. Did the fact that The Weather Channel doesn't have dedicated staff and studios in every major community touched by Irene keep them from covering it? No - not at all.

Z100 New York obviously isn't a hard news station, yet it kept it's listeners appropriately informed. Somehow a Clear Channel cluster that includes only music FMs managed to pull that off. Somehow, I think KTRH would be able to do the same. Heck, Clear Channel has the infrastructure in place to deliver programming to the KTRH transmitter site via satellite if their studios are destroyed.

Can 1010 WINS say that? There's more to running a modern radio station than having a roster of local news readers.
 
Z100 played music during the storm, if the New York board is to be believed. Is that appropriate coverage? Maybe so, for those who are bored by news.
 
stan said:
Z100 played music during the storm, if the New York board is to be believed. Is that appropriate coverage? Maybe so, for those who are bored by news.
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Z100 stopped the music and did hurricane coverage for a few minutes twice an hour. I listened to some of their coverage on XM.
 
Another Cheap Channel Cheerleader

radiogooroo said:
stan said:
Did you find their hurricane coverage and information boring? It sounded like they had a full, competent news staff covering the various aspects of the storm. If there is a hurricane that hits our area, what news staff is left at KTRH to cover the event? Perhaps they can press Michael Berry and Walter and Johnson into service as 'reporters'.
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I find all news stations to be boring in general.
There ya go, that's why there is an up/down button to change the station


Clear Channel is a big company with big resources. Did the fact that The Weather Channel doesn't have dedicated staff and studios in every major community touched by Irene keep them from covering it? No - not at all.

Clear Channel is a big company with big resources, who spends zilch on their local stations.
The weather channel obviously has a full staff that knows their shit, and owners and programmers that actually invest their resources on creative, yet information based programming

Z100 New York obviously isn't a hard news station, yet it kept it's listeners appropriately informed. Somehow a Clear Channel cluster that includes only music FMs managed to pull that off. Somehow, I think KTRH would be able to do the same. Heck, Clear Channel has the infrastructure in place to deliver programming to the KTRH transmitter site via satellite if their studios are destroyed.

Z100 isn't a hard news, or a soft news station, it's a Cheap Channel owned contemporary hits station that sucks now, when Malrite owned them they were halfway cool.
Clear Channel can pipe in programming from faraway lands if the transmitter fires or drowns, or farts, or hiccups, and so can any closet with uplinks.

Can 1010 WINS say that? There's more to running a modern radio station than having a roster of local news readers.

You must be REALLY bored by all news radio who never listens to 1010WINS, because they have local, regional, national and worldwide correspondents. They were the first All News station, and their delivery hasn't changed since April 1965, when they dropped the rock n' Roll format. They have been on top of NY ratings often, and in the top 5 consistently since then, and it's because of the delivery of news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They don't bullshit the listeners, the way just about every other station in the country that reports as a news station, that carries a full shit load of Hannity,Limbaugh, Ingraham, and Savage... that ain't ****ing news
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If all news in Houston with a big, expensive staff of reporters is such a great idea, why don't you guys talk to one of the signals for rent, assemble a staff and have a go at it?

I'm sure you'll make buckets of money.
 
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