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severe weather in East Texas

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johnqdoe

KNUE went to the Ch 7 feed and was getting info out there....KTYL and KKTX did too I think. KYKS and KKUS were busy playing the hits. I heard Charlie O' do a break on KKUS talking about what the rich folks were spending on gifts. As a tornado was ripping thru Longview. KNUE stuck with the Ch 7 coverage as more warnings were issued and got the word out. 20 minutes later, KYKX was finally talking about the storm...but they just had random callers on the air saying stuff like "I saw some damage!" There were other tornado warnings being issued and they had "Joe from the trailer park" on the air. Obviously nobody has news depts anymore. At least KNUE had the TV audio. Piss-poor "coverage" by KKUS and KYKX .
 
On a related note, there was bad weather in Lubbock today.

In Lubbock there was heavy snow today, about 3 to 5 inches in the city but some people had snow drifts of a few feet. There was 6 to 8 inches on the northwest side of the County.

I was watching the TV stations this morning, I had to tell family to stay home for a couple days instead of driving up. On radio the "news-talk" stations brought different coverage. First, the "news-radio" station, 1420, never really has anything. But I was surprised that yesterday during Rush and today KFYO's weather seemed to be very dated. I'm guessing since Ron Roberts always advertises his website in his weathercasts on radio that it's some type of trade out and maybe not actually getting paid. So if he's out of town it doesn't matter much I guess. I was watching it pour snow in Lubbock and KFYO kept announcing that snow was going to stay north.

I was surprised to hear 950 had a live morning show with Klotzman and Douglass. They were talking about some of the power outages and road closures. I was up early this morning and heard them with updated weathercasts all morning. It's Christmas Eve, so not saying the stations needed to be doing live shows today, it's a good time for family. Every station in town is probably doing recorded shows or other features. But when people are stuck all across the region in snow it was surprising that 950 was the only station covering it.
 
I listened to KYKX as KLTV was reporting a tornado on the ground in Longview. The had absolutely no coverage. I finally heard Dru on the air giving reports about 30 minutes later. It was piss poor coverage at best. Sad that what KYKX likes to refer to as a "Tyler station" (KNUE) had better coverage than they did.

On another note...NBC 56 and CBS 19 did not cover the storms well either. KLTV was the only station doing any kind of long form coverage.
 
What did KTBB have to offer in the way of severe WX coverage? Did they go wall-to-wall with Dr. Bob Peters?
 
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