As far as is public broadcasters have to buy new EAS boxes to replace their old ones. This is a laugh as they were replacements that would be fully upgradable. We should not buy any more SAGE units.
Broadcasters have for years been the cornerstone of severe weather coverage. Anyone can buy a Sine unit to from a phone break in from anywhere in any broadcast chain radio or television. The reason we don't have coverage is that people are too lazy or too complacent in their attention to what goes on the air.
Even the big TV stations overlook some towns when the storm goes out of Indianapolis. Other times they go nuts for things irrelevant. This is a part of being plugged in. Know who your audience is and listen more than talk to hear yourself.
During severe weather recently we lost CSI Miami and another big show on NBC. This isn't the end of the world. I was wondering why they were breaking in for storms in Terre Haute and Princeton when these markets have their own network affiliates. This is when warnings were in the respective market Arbitron metro areas. Not a crawl y'all, this was time consuming my voice needs to be crystal clear because I like to hear myself speak bravado that was presented in mind dumbing detail, then completely repeated for those who couldn't hear their voice and marvel at it the first time (also equally loooooong and seemingly as Garret Morris, making sure to enunciate for the hearing impaired and those with feeble minds). Did I mention that Doppler 9000 was used extensively and that the entire broadcast was in HD....with Indiana's most thoughtful and accurate radar. Because it was X vision we got to see Indianapolis, Illinois, and Kentucky radar track these storms!? They also have neighborhood alerts for cell phones.
Then the guy wrapped up by repeating the whole thing for those who tuned in late, were lost, got tired of Channel 8's coverage or got the info and didn't like their network programming which resumed, mistakenly listened to Channel 6 coverage (they don't have a helicopter or a fancy radar) and then briefly (when I say briefly I mean the time it should have taken to do this in the first place and still be long and boring?) recapped the warnings in Terre Haute and Evansville markets...
Then when the warnings went out of the area (as in on the other side of Indy) you people are on your own. By then we missed the last part of any network programming I can appreciate.
It might be me. I remember Ron Jordan and at another time Tim McGee and Bruce Munson using a handgun to shoot out a CRT television ala Elvis. I was finally trying to find a clip. I was wondering if the 22 38 45 or 30 caliber would work best and create the least amount of mess. This wonder started at 5 minutes in and I think he continued live while the storm tracked from Terre Haute to our market. Have you driven I7 0 from TH to Indy? This is worse than the drive. Wait, it would wake all the people who fell asleep. Reliving it gives me hives.
If I had an HDTV in Brazil in the "Storm Track" and continued with the most excellent coverage I might expire from this torturous effort of "living through the storm coverage" or physically die before the warning in it's most blessed entirety was given with the Super Doppler X vision this is better than any other radar report was given. How about " Go to a safe place?"
If I was the General Manager I might tell Chris Wright a thing or two. I might have a hotline to Master Control. "Jim this is Biff the Manager. I sign your checks. Make sure the studio is patched to all monitors, go to the big voice rejoin and switch the network on at any point in the next 20 seconds. Continue to act like you are live until he finishes." "Tell Chris he sounds great when he is done."
It isn't often that I even have a television on for anything other than background. I wouldn't see Bob Gregory do this. He got the information out, made it crawl, and was more concerned about the viewer and their time. It isn't old school, it is brevity. Surely they got complaints?
I know they watch each other (8-13, 59-8,13 6-8,13,59) to make sure their coverage goes longer. I might then suggest that when the weather from an Indy bound storm enters the St Louis Metro we break in and maintain coverage until it passes. Additional radio benefits.
We have too many sources of information. We are such an independent country they even study it. A group of fish swimming is shown to a US group. The USA folks watch the one fish swimming ahead of the pack. Every other country on the planet where this is shown the populace watches the pack and no the single fish. From this we could speculate neither group would watch swimming fish for the 90 mile trip from Terre Haute.
Our country is falling apart in many ways. This contest between multiple stations to be the best and latest and blah blah blah takes a toll and we are all left ready to just go to the internet to watch my ustream account. BTW no EAS equipment on ustream.
Broadcasters have for years been the cornerstone of severe weather coverage. Anyone can buy a Sine unit to from a phone break in from anywhere in any broadcast chain radio or television. The reason we don't have coverage is that people are too lazy or too complacent in their attention to what goes on the air.
Even the big TV stations overlook some towns when the storm goes out of Indianapolis. Other times they go nuts for things irrelevant. This is a part of being plugged in. Know who your audience is and listen more than talk to hear yourself.
During severe weather recently we lost CSI Miami and another big show on NBC. This isn't the end of the world. I was wondering why they were breaking in for storms in Terre Haute and Princeton when these markets have their own network affiliates. This is when warnings were in the respective market Arbitron metro areas. Not a crawl y'all, this was time consuming my voice needs to be crystal clear because I like to hear myself speak bravado that was presented in mind dumbing detail, then completely repeated for those who couldn't hear their voice and marvel at it the first time (also equally loooooong and seemingly as Garret Morris, making sure to enunciate for the hearing impaired and those with feeble minds). Did I mention that Doppler 9000 was used extensively and that the entire broadcast was in HD....with Indiana's most thoughtful and accurate radar. Because it was X vision we got to see Indianapolis, Illinois, and Kentucky radar track these storms!? They also have neighborhood alerts for cell phones.
Then the guy wrapped up by repeating the whole thing for those who tuned in late, were lost, got tired of Channel 8's coverage or got the info and didn't like their network programming which resumed, mistakenly listened to Channel 6 coverage (they don't have a helicopter or a fancy radar) and then briefly (when I say briefly I mean the time it should have taken to do this in the first place and still be long and boring?) recapped the warnings in Terre Haute and Evansville markets...
Then when the warnings went out of the area (as in on the other side of Indy) you people are on your own. By then we missed the last part of any network programming I can appreciate.
It might be me. I remember Ron Jordan and at another time Tim McGee and Bruce Munson using a handgun to shoot out a CRT television ala Elvis. I was finally trying to find a clip. I was wondering if the 22 38 45 or 30 caliber would work best and create the least amount of mess. This wonder started at 5 minutes in and I think he continued live while the storm tracked from Terre Haute to our market. Have you driven I7 0 from TH to Indy? This is worse than the drive. Wait, it would wake all the people who fell asleep. Reliving it gives me hives.
If I had an HDTV in Brazil in the "Storm Track" and continued with the most excellent coverage I might expire from this torturous effort of "living through the storm coverage" or physically die before the warning in it's most blessed entirety was given with the Super Doppler X vision this is better than any other radar report was given. How about " Go to a safe place?"
If I was the General Manager I might tell Chris Wright a thing or two. I might have a hotline to Master Control. "Jim this is Biff the Manager. I sign your checks. Make sure the studio is patched to all monitors, go to the big voice rejoin and switch the network on at any point in the next 20 seconds. Continue to act like you are live until he finishes." "Tell Chris he sounds great when he is done."
It isn't often that I even have a television on for anything other than background. I wouldn't see Bob Gregory do this. He got the information out, made it crawl, and was more concerned about the viewer and their time. It isn't old school, it is brevity. Surely they got complaints?
I know they watch each other (8-13, 59-8,13 6-8,13,59) to make sure their coverage goes longer. I might then suggest that when the weather from an Indy bound storm enters the St Louis Metro we break in and maintain coverage until it passes. Additional radio benefits.
We have too many sources of information. We are such an independent country they even study it. A group of fish swimming is shown to a US group. The USA folks watch the one fish swimming ahead of the pack. Every other country on the planet where this is shown the populace watches the pack and no the single fish. From this we could speculate neither group would watch swimming fish for the 90 mile trip from Terre Haute.
Our country is falling apart in many ways. This contest between multiple stations to be the best and latest and blah blah blah takes a toll and we are all left ready to just go to the internet to watch my ustream account. BTW no EAS equipment on ustream.
if anyone's watching a set they might be streaming from the internet and don't bother turning down that fancy 7.1 Dolby system to notice if the local sirens are going or not.