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Severe Weather coverage after 7PM

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MsMusicRadio

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I was like driving home from Citrus Park Mall yesterday like after a gruelling day of shopping . WWRM was like giving regular updates on the incoming storms. I got home at 6:30 and the electricity went out. OMG! I had no TV and no internet. I did have battery powered radios. Of course I didn't stay home to stare at the walls as that is sooo nowhere, so I went back to shopping and dinner. But back to radio-----as far as I could tell, nobody gives the weather after 7PM period. Please tell me if I am wrong? I'm guessing maybe QYK and MNF. AM doesn't count because it begins to get really so full of static during a storm. Beside, who really listens to that stuff?

Thanks
 
After hours you are probably stuck with EAS alerts. There are two stations in the Tampa area designated primary stations or LP1 and LP2. I dont know which stations are the LP1 and 2 in the Tampa market. All other stations are supposed to monitor the primary stations and relay messages. It might pay to find out who are the primary stations and listen to them, as the activations may be more reliable. With stations not manned any more at night this is all you have to listen to. Maybe WFLA does something but I dont know any more.
 
That's why God made weather radios with the feature S.A.M.E! :)........ oh and people do listen to A.M. radio; although I don't listen to WFLA AM; some people must as they are always in the top 5 in the 12+ ratings. (yes, I'm aware that there is no live weather on WFLA after 7pm as a rule, but if they are one of the primary EAS stations, then you might have a prayer of getting emergency weather info after 7pm and overnight.....maybe......perhaps :) )

drt
 
I guess, but you should know a girl wants the weather, music, and to be sooo entertained. Is this too much?
 
sbe1 said:
After hours you are probably stuck with EAS alerts. There are two stations in the Tampa area designated primary stations or LP1 and LP2. I dont know which stations are the LP1 and 2 in the Tampa market. All other stations are supposed to monitor the primary stations and relay messages. It might pay to find out who are the primary stations and listen to them, as the activations may be more reliable. With stations not manned any more at night this is all you have to listen to. Maybe WFLA does something but I dont know any more.
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The only thing that I could find is in this link that says that WMTX is the LP1 for Tampa.

http://dev.sbe39.com/home/eas/wmtx-100.7-eas-schedule.html
 
'FLA is pretty much automated in the evening. Its traffic and all are farmed out.
I'd be surprised if there was anyone in the building on Gandy at that time of the day. No one listens to radio anyway, so they think.
 
Well, MsMusicRadio had a grueling day of shopping during an electrical blackout just a few short weeks after a day sprawled out across the sandy beach working on her delicious tan. Tough life.

She obviously has plenty of time on her hands and apparently spends lots of money too, therefore we can assume she has a MrMusicRadio to pay her bills and he probably listens to AM radio for the weather on 970 WFLA, which is a the primary EBS activated station for the Tampa Bay region, even after 7 P.M.

It is also the highest rated NewsTalk radio station in the state and central Florida's news hub from which dozens of other stations are fed news and traffic statewide, which means 970 WFLA is staffed 24/7/365.

As 970's motto goes, "knowledge is power" and now you have some. Go forth and be fruitful.
 
Sorry, but MS MusicRadio is D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D . I got the house and he got the snow. Snow closings are more the thing where so like is.
 
Sorry, but to deal with the previous point-----does that mean if I drive my little ole car down to Gandy at night and knock-knock----somebody answers? :p
 
NO... if you drive your little 'ole clunker down to CC/Tampa and knock on the door some smart staffer who clearly knows everything will recognize you as a FM music freak and send you back to your clunker to drive back to your own little hell. Go shopping or tanning instead.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
I was like driving home from Citrus Park Mall yesterday like after a gruelling day of shopping . WWRM was like giving regular updates on the incoming storms...
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Like, we got a valley girl in our midst... Far out! ;)
 
naughtytalker said:
It is also the highest rated NewsTalk radio station in the state and central Florida's news hub from which dozens of other stations are fed news and traffic statewide, which means 970 WFLA is staffed 24/7/365.
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Sure can't tell by the on-air product.

Nice bragging. Does CC give you a bonus for promoting the company you work for online?
 
"Shopping Hell"-------wow. Maybe that could be a show on TLC
 
Severe Weather coverage after 7pm

I remember a newspaper editorial a long time ago regarding this topic. It may have been after the no-name storm. The writer noted that she did what the NWS and others told her to do: head for cover with her battery powered radio. Of course all she heard was music, no weather warnings, nothing from government agencies updating the "situation", no "all clear". She was not happy! I believe Ferreri was interviewed for the article as were some other radio people. Perhaps he can tell the story better.

I also remember a time when Bay News 9 was simulcasting on someones AM signal. Can anyone fill in the blanks on which station that was, how long they did it, and why they stopped? If the Wx looked ugly and I was in my truck, I would flip them on anytime and they had their typical wall to wall coverage.

And naughtytalker, if you wanted to know if MsMusicRadio was married, just ask her. Baiting her with that "MrMusicRadio" thing was a little old school. Even if she is a wmnf-er now, she not only knows who John R is but actually listened to him back in the day. That makes her OK in my book. Alas, I am married....... ::)
 
Nostalgia said: It may have been after the no-name storm. The writer noted that she did what the NWS and others told her to do: head for cover with her battery powered radio. Of course all she heard was music, no weather warnings, nothing from government agencies updating the "situation", no "all clear". She was not happy!

Interestingly, during the hurricanes of 2005 (I think) when several brushed Tampa, all I heard on radio was weather information, station after station. After hearing the same weather information over and over again, I really wished at least one of the stations would have played some kind of entertainment. We lost power, and sitting there in the dark hour after hour listening to the same old weather information, we would have really welcomed some kind of entertainment.

I guess everybody looks for something different from radio.
 
Sooooo... lemme get this right?

Nobody home at 4002 after dark to update the weather forecasts that run through the night? Soooo, if I'm not listening at the exact random time an EAS alert airs automatedly, I won't hear about an impending tornado from the best news station in the market? I'll guess I'll just have to listen all the live-long night just in case a random EAS message should pop up. Silly me for wanting to check in at the "top and bottom of every hour" for News, Traffic & Weather.

But what a way to boost them TSL numbers in the overnight! Everybody keeps listening, just waiting for them EAS chirps!

Good thing I know not to listen for an EBS announcement. I'd be waiting a real long time.
 
In 2004 , WSJT and Q105 carried the sound from Bay News 9 during the Hurricanes. That is good, but what about fast moving and dangerous storms that are not hurricanes?

But thanks Nostalgia for the John R reference. The show gave me goose bumps. And I loved the commercials too for Ernie's Record Mart. On that note, I actually listened to the WCFL flip to Top 40 in 1965. I read about it in Billboard ( where I got my radio groupie fix before this place and Radio&Records Online ever existed ). In 1965 I was hanging like you know on the Strip around "It's Boss" and grooving like on Boss Radio. If I learned to talk like , you know, a Valley Girl, I learned it in the Valley. Back where I was born, it was all dem, deese, dose, and younzers up da wazoo.------it was just soooo Sopranos ya know! Like nuttin but Stillers till a girl just got sooooo tired unless Franco took off his shirt-OMG.
 
570 am ( i forget what call letters they were using then) used to simulcast with bay news 9 years ago, for at least 6 months or close to a year or so...
 
True, when "the big one" happens most stations seem to go wall to wall with either their inhouse staff (lets see how that works for them this year!!) or through their "media partners". CBS and many others went with BN9. But that is not what I was thinking about. THANK YOU flwfg for setting my mind at ease, I didnt think I was imagining that.

Someone in the know correct me, or discuss furher, my belief that only warnings issued by the state warning point, or the White House! get the full EAS treatment. Its the local severe weather alerts from Ruskin that I think most people are referring to in this thread. I know of some stations who have added a NWS receiver to their EAS system. These could activate locally with the SAME codes for Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, ect but I personally have never heard one go off on any station I was listening to.

And yes dwtpa97 it did seem to get a little stale after awhile. With no real new news they rehashed the old news ad nauseum. I think some stations didnt want to be criticized for going back to entertainment, but I recall a local station back in Ohio during some severe flooding many years ago keeping everybody informed, but playing a record when there was nothing else to say. Of course they could do that since there was a real live person behind the mic and they kept the flow of information coming as it became available. I wonder what the newspaper media critics would say about that now.
 
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