It wasn't short notice. The NWS Storm Prediction Center was already issuing alerts for tornado conditions on Wednesday 12/8 and ramping up the urgency by Thursday. News and weather organizations had at least 48 hours notice.
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No cable news / Weather Channel coverage during Midwest tornado outbreak
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It wasn't short notice. The NWS Storm Prediction Center was already issuing alerts for tornado conditions on Wednesday 12/8 and ramping up the urgency by Thursday. News and weather organizations had at least 48 hours notice.
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And if severe WX hits New York City. About all that TWC cares about nowadays, especially in the overnight period. Ever since NBCUniversal bought them out, they have been a shell of their own self.
Dr. John Hope and Dave Schwartz are rolling in their graves.
Makes me more blessed at the professionalism of local TV meteorologists even more. 10 years ago when Tuscaloosa's horrific tornado hit, James Spann (ABC 33/40) showed everyone in the TV industry how to report on a large EF4-5 tornado in your hometown. He is the example that all meteorologists should look up to.
Dr. John Hope and Dave Schwartz are rolling in their graves.
Makes me more blessed at the professionalism of local TV meteorologists even more. 10 years ago when Tuscaloosa's horrific tornado hit, James Spann (ABC 33/40) showed everyone in the TV industry how to report on a large EF4-5 tornado in your hometown. He is the example that all meteorologists should look up to.
Here are local news outlets covering their part of storm coverage.
Agreed at this point given that Cable News is not always a reliable place to go to in an emergency. However getting a streaming feed from local news channels that's a different story.
This feed was on top of things.
I agree, which is why I said earlier that people interested in the tornado should stream various local TV stations. The Nashville stations were in the middle of the action, and all four were streaming full coverage as the tornado marched across the state of Tennessee into Kentucky. The stations are owned by three top owners: Scripps, Gray, and Nexstar. They all had the most advanced tracking technologies, and very professional meteorologists. If it had been a weekday night, I'm sure some of the cable channels would have stuck around to cover. But not on Friday night.
Per other discussion threads, The Weather Channel was purchased relatively recently by Byron Allen. He's a comedian and basically got his start as a presenter on the TV show Real People. Months ago, he filed a lawsuit against Charter and Comcast that lost and was ruled against by all 9 justices on the Supreme Court (when is the last time you saw all the Supreme Court justices agree on anything) and just about a week ago, his multi-million $$ lawsuit against McDonald's was dismissed. That in mind, I wonder what the current executive leadership of The Weather Channel looks like and what their priorities are?
The Weather Channel has drop the ball a lot with severe weather outbreaks, and this goes all they way back to the NBCUniversal days of the channel, i think now, things are getting worse with TWC and the severe weather coverage, last night should have been a night of non-stop wall to wall special coverage when the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK declared it was gonna be a "Moderate" risk day (Moderate being the second highest level of severe behind high risk).
at this point when it comes to severe weather, always stick to WeatherNation, Fox Weather, Accuweather Network, or you local stations when severe weather hit your local area and they are in Wall to Wall mode.
during the DFW area severe weather outbreak in October, i was following the Dallas-Fort Worth Channels as my main source for weather coverage in my area for the storms as they do a better job than the weather channel as well as WBAP & them having Brad Barton do live severe weather coverage (as well as activating the EAS) as he has been in this market for a long time working for KRLD and KTVT CBS 11 in the 90s before his tenure at KRLD started in the late 2000s.
at this point when it comes to severe weather, always stick to WeatherNation, Fox Weather, Accuweather Network, or you local stations when severe weather hit your local area and they are in Wall to Wall mode.
during the DFW area severe weather outbreak in October, i was following the Dallas-Fort Worth Channels as my main source for weather coverage in my area for the storms as they do a better job than the weather channel as well as WBAP & them having Brad Barton do live severe weather coverage (as well as activating the EAS) as he has been in this market for a long time working for KRLD and KTVT CBS 11 in the 90s before his tenure at KRLD started in the late 2000s.
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Even local TV affiliates owned by Allen Media have done a better job covering the tornadoes than even Weather Channel.
Apparently Allen's Media's priorities are directed at local TV Stations.
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Same with Weather Underground,AMHQ,Weekend Recharge and so on. Know if a Major Hurricane or Blizzard.
Doesn't occur to you some have loved ones in the warned area?
Where I live in Alamo, TN we only got strong winds and I was watching You Tube and didn't know how serious things were only a few miles away in areas like Newbern, and Tiptonville where my wife has family. I don't know about on live TV or radio but I never heard any EAS warning on my personal or work phones. Just this week I got amber alerts for missing children from all across the state, so I think they dropped the ball in my area of West TN.
From what I've seen on the national news, although there was serious damage in parts of NW and North Central TN the focus was more on Kentucky, especially Mayfield, who had it even worse. Local stations definitely did a better job in my area.
From what I've seen on the national news, although there was serious damage in parts of NW and North Central TN the focus was more on Kentucky, especially Mayfield, who had it even worse. Local stations definitely did a better job in my area.
I would hope they would be taking cover and not watching TV.
Nobody has mentioned covid has greatly reduced resources. With so many tv/radio reports coming from personal homes is it really surprising coverage is lacking? That said I noticed David Muir on the ground for abc on a Sunday night. Kudos.
True too!
Remarkable how freely armchair quarterbacks spend someone else’s money without the knowledge of their balance sheet.
And let’s say I have a loved one on the area—ok, the Weather Channel (or CNN et al) isn’t going to be my biggest concern or first place to look. Well into the 21st century, we have ample ways to find timely information.
And let’s say I have a loved one on the area—ok, the Weather Channel (or CNN et al) isn’t going to be my biggest concern or first place to look. Well into the 21st century, we have ample ways to find timely information.
What's remarkable is the excuse-making for national media organizations that dropped the ball. If the local channels are supposed to cover it, then The Weather Channel, with "weather" right in it's name, might as well not even bother trying, turn out the lights and go home, is that it? That's kind of like saying Spotify plays music so why should radio stations bother trying to compete?
Or maybe some people here are invested in the companies that failed, and find it in their own interest to shrug it off like it's no big deal. Dunno.
Or maybe some people here are invested in the companies that failed, and find it in their own interest to shrug it off like it's no big deal. Dunno.
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