Springfield tornado coverage

[That annoying kid]

Well they did finally send someone. Better late than never I guess.

 

[Kenny Atkinson]

Boston has been on the air since 3-3:30, covering every minute of these storms.

Providence didn't provide ANY information of these nearby life-threatening storms until the newscasts. Even during the newscasts their coverage was spotty at best. It was pathetic. It's as if they were unaware that there were vicious, tornadic storms just on their doorstep.

I beg to differ. WJAR started cutting in during the 4 PM hour and then was live from 5-7:30, preempting Nightly News. They then had another update during the 7:30 hour.

And besides, the majority of the severe threat was not in the Providence DMA. The majority of that coverage was focused on Worcester county and Springfield. They're even field anchoring from Springfield at 11 tonight.

I did see some WWLP-22 reporters on WJAR newscasts with filed reports saying NEWS22 or whatever it is.

 

[radiolives]

I did see some WWLP-22 reporters on WJAR newscasts with filed reports saying NEWS22 or whatever it is.

I would have figured WPRI to be using WWLP as both are owned by Lin TV, while WJAR is Media General.

 

[bg02445]

It's probably the NBC affiliation that allows WJAR to use WWLP reports.

 

[Wbzfm2010]

funny thing is wbz kept saying there affiliate but wouldn't wshm be there affiliate since its cbs???

 

[Schuyler]

With relatives in Wilbraham and Monson (neither affected, luckily), I was watching WWLP online in one room and all the Boston TV news channels over the air in the other, dashing back in forth and making calls to my relatives with new info, since neither had power for their TVs and had only johnny-come-lately WHYN-AM (and its CC FMs) to listen to, with just about no useful information until AFTER the danger was over.

I'm a die-hard OTA viewer, with reception of 25 to 30 channels (counting sub-channels) from my "Greater Fitchburg Metroplex Hilltop Observatory." WHDH 7 broke away from coverage to carry the Bruins at 8 pm, but when they cut from that to the governor's press conference at about 9, with minimal DXing I found the Bruins on WCSH 6 from Maine, coming in like a local. WHDH 5's signal dropped off the cliff at about that time (as did WSBK 38), but WMTW 8 was gangbusters, if I wanted ABC. And 6.2 and 8.2 are both weather feeds. These unusual catches happened just after one of the storm cells passed my area (taking its mothball-sized hail, high wind and torrential rain with it).

I continued to channel-surf for tornado news until after midnight. By that time, 6 and 8 were beginning to break up and by morning they were gone. While I still prefer now-extinct analog snow to pixellated or absent digital video signals, it's good to know an antenna is by no means obsolete, especially in an emergency. I wonder if the general public knows that many viewers still have that option if the cable goes out or the dish blows off the roof.

(And for future reference, Boston reporters, it's "MUNNsin," not "MAWNsun."

 

[vibe]

i thought the tv coverage (in MA) was VG. If one was in a car there wasn't much warning w all the syndicated/unmanned stations. Great going WTAG and WHYN to name several-you really served the public...

 

[KML0224]

It's not television in this instance, but I know WAQY-FM 102.1 (Rock 102) in Springfield was talking calls about the tornadoes soon after they happened last Wednesday afternoon/evening, preempting Nights With Alice Cooper. That was nice of them to do that, no offense Alice!