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Tornado Coverage

"KYM" is her correct spelling,and she is the sweetest and non-egostical person you ever want to meet in the business. A gracious lady.

Speaking of Brad Barton, traffic reporters were NOT to report on wet roads,high wind,snow conditions as part of their reports despite information from the "traffic tip line" . One night a "Blue Norther" was coming through dropping temps 30 degrees in one hour, with rain changing to freezing rain,etc. Brad as part of his "curent conditions" was literally giving a traffic report. That didn't sit well,so the traffic reporter,went ahead and talked about high winds reported on I-35W,and SycamoreSchool Road, and Ice being reported on I-35 and 380 in Denton "based on trucker reports".Brad never said a word,he even mentioned the traffic reporters name during his next update. Although according to the producer ,he was fuming a little. Later on restrictions were lifted on traffic reporters describing road conditions.
 
TheLaffer said:
There is a woman on WBAP on weekends between 6am to ? that is just Baaaaad. I'm tellin' you this hurts 'Bap.

Monty Cook is good on WBAP. The overnight news person on KRLD and WBAP are decent, but that truckin show and Levin...get'em out of here!!!! KLIF has somebody on in Mornings and afternoons that sound real good. But the newspeople on KLIF nights all nights just awful! If Cumulus is paying the traffic guy on KLIF well why can't they bring in good seasoned newspeople on nights and overnights on KLIF?
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Wish I knew the person to whom you were referring to on 'BAP traffic on
the weekends. I'll have to (ugh!) listen, I suppose. ;) Thing is, Metro,
Traffic.com, Clear Channel, and basically all traffic services are NOTORIOUS
for getting young whipper snappers right out of college, or still going to
college and working on their communications degrees. Why? Simple.
THEY CAN GET THEM CHEAP!. They'll be lucky to make 10 bucks an
hour, but hey! they can be a star on a radio or TV station!. Woo Hoo!
It's pathetic, but it's true. They are nothing but fill material and very
expendable. Their mentality is who cares? when they're only on for
30 seconds (if that). Problem is, that's all it takes for tune out.

The services don't take the time or training to inform the reporters of
common slowdown and accident areas, or worse, how to pronounce
roads and cities. Or if they do resort to giving alternates (cringe!), they
give an alternate that puts commuters 10 to 20 miles outside of their
driving area. Another problem (I'm on a roll) is many reporters don't know
how to read a traffic report for broadcast, ad-lib, or inject some
personality. They read verbatim from the computer screen and might as well
sound like a robot or "Perfect Paul" from NWS.

There are some good ones out there. Monty, Laura, Michael Scott, and Bill
Jackson are ones I've had the pleasure of working with, and all are true
professionals.

Regarding Bill and KLIF, unless things have changed dramatically (and they
rarely do) his paycheck is still signed by Traffic.com. KLIF news was/still is
being done by Metro. A situation I always thought was goofy and well,
not right. Traffic from one source, news from the other. And both compete.
Why? MONEY! The little bird sings.....cheap, cheap, cheap ;D

Gone are the good old days of the exclusive news reporter, or the
exclusive traffic reporter working for one station. Brad and Jim Ryan
are the rare ones that come to mind. It's sad.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
All in all DFW is back to its normal weather pattern after 2 years of exceptional drought. That means every 4-5 days we will likely have Thunderstorms on the average.
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Wow, all your other talents, and you're a meteorologist too!!! :D
 
OK Gang,

How did BAP and RLD do with last night's storm coverage? Lots of funnel clouds were spotted, and wind speeds were clocked at 100 MPH in some areas.

R
 
It was still the Delkus and Dungan show on 820. OVERKILL!!!

Brad Barton actually did a much better job than last time. Heck, even news director, Rick Hadley got in the "johnny on the spot" phone interviews. Not bad at all.
 
Ok....now I'm confused. When WBAP didn't do ANYTHING....we ripped them to shreds. Now when they go wall to wall with Delkus and Dungan....it's OVERKILL?

Can anyone explain to me???? Thanks
 
I think that is the point... not doing anything and "going wall to wall with Delkus and Dungan" is the same thing. This is a radio station, not a TV feed. ;)
 
IN short WBAP die their reporting during their reg.scheduled time,the rest was a WFAA feed,so WBAP didn't do much. KRLD once again did very well,and with this third severe weather event in a couple of weeks,it appears KRLD is the station to turn to. Joel Halstead,Harold Taft are certainly rolling in their graves.
 
plx wrote: IN short WBAP die their reporting during their reg.scheduled time,the rest was a WFAA feed,

Sean writes: Au Contraire, Mon Frere. The Wednesday night coverage included live phone in reports from Rick, Bob, Ellie, Lance, Jim, Steve the sportsguy and extended conversations with Steve McCauley. There wasn't very much simulcast... there was much more EAS activation and real-time reporting from multiple sources, and a dedicated meteorologist. And when I tuned to KRLD, I heard commercials.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
IN short WBAP die their reporting during their reg.scheduled time,the rest was a WFAA feed,so WBAP didn't do much. KRLD once again did very well,and with this third severe weather event in a couple of weeks,it appears KRLD is the station to turn to. Joel Halstead,Harold Taft are certainly rolling in their graves.
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PLEX were you listening to WBAP? They went wall to wall before 6:00 PM and stayed with it until at least 8:30 PM. They had multiple reporters in the field, extensive interviews with meteorologist Steve McCauley from WFAA along with a meteorologist from the weather channel and took calls constantly from listeners all over the metroplex.

KRLD did a good job too. Barton had problems with his ISDN from the 1080 weathercenter (his home?) and filed several reports via telephone. I listened to both and from what I heard WBAP out-bodied KRLD with reporters in the field start to finish of the storm while KRLD has the advantage of an on-staff meteorologist. What I heard was WBAP only going to Delkus and Dungan in short bursts of no more than a minute or two while their anchor lined up EAS announcements.

But for you to dismiss what WBAP did as reporting during their regular schedule is complete bunk. You obviously weren't tuned to WBAP or have a strong bias against them.
 
OK. I will concede. I heard some some stuff sent to me.but when I listened I heard syndication,etc. Yeah Barton lost his feed,but it was short. No I don't have a bias against wbap.They once had a great committment to News and with Tyler at the helm I had hoped they would get back to doing more news. Perhaps after the preceeeding 2 severe events, this last one will be the catalyst to bring them back to news prominence.
 
I listened to both and from what I heard WBAP out-bodied KRLD with reporters in the field start to finish of the storm while KRLD has the advantage of an on-staff meteorologist. What I heard was WBAP only going to Delkus and Dungan in short bursts of no more than a minute or two while their anchor lined up EAS announcements.
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Yep, KRLD has an advantage, alright. I think the reporters in the field are usually the weakest link in the coverage--on both KRLD and on WBAP. They're useful after the storms have moved on, because they can report on damage. But during the storm, you really just need to hear the play-by-play (if you will) of the various warnings and of which communities are in the direct path of the strongest areas of the storm(s). And Brad Barton is SO good about getting funnel reports and large hail reports right off of the ham radio scanner. He gets this info on the air before the National Weather Service can turn it around via the EAS system.

If a tornado is on the ground in Dallas area--and storm spotters can see it or Doppler can sense it--Barton will warn you first. I don't think any other radio station can say this.

Obviously I'm loyal to KRLD during storms. That won't change. But let me say that it would be a win-win for Dallas-Ft. Worth listeners if WBAP spruced up its staff with a meteorologist. The vast majority of listeners probably have no idea how long it takes to get a tornado warning on the air on 99 percent of the radio stations in town. 10 to 20 minutes could pass--easily--from the moment a tornado is confirmed by spotters or radar... to the time the EAS ticker info reaches the jock or anchor and is voiced on the air. Talk about a false sense of security! So I'm all for more stations getting serious about severe storm coverage.
 
DoogieDown1 said:
I listened to both and from what I heard WBAP out-bodied KRLD with reporters in the field start to finish of the storm while KRLD has the advantage of an on-staff meteorologist. What I heard was WBAP only going to Delkus and Dungan in short bursts of no more than a minute or two while their anchor lined up EAS announcements.
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Yep, KRLD has an advantage, alright. I think the reporters in the field are usually the weakest link in the coverage--on both KRLD and on WBAP. They're useful after the storms have moved on, because they can report on damage. But during the storm, you really just need to hear the play-by-play (if you will) of the various warnings and of which communities are in the direct path of the strongest areas of the storm(s). And Brad Barton is SO good about getting funnel reports and large hail reports right off of the ham radio scanner. He gets this info on the air before the National Weather Service can turn it around via the EAS system.

If a tornado is on the ground in Dallas area--and storm spotters can see it or Doppler can sense it--Barton will warn you first. I don't think any other radio station can say this.

Obviously I'm loyal to KRLD during storms. That won't change. But let me say that it would be a win-win for Dallas-Ft. Worth listeners if WBAP spruced up its staff with a meteorologist. The vast majority of listeners probably have no idea how long it takes to get a tornado warning on the air on 99 percent of the radio stations in town. 10 to 20 minutes could pass--easily--from the moment a tornado is confirmed by spotters or radar... to the time the EAS ticker info reaches the jock or anchor and is voiced on the air. Talk about a false sense of security! So I'm all for more stations getting serious about severe storm coverage.
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Personally I think CH.8 does a much better job than most radio station. They've got reporters everywhere and they now have CONTINIOUS coverage instead of breaking in every 20 minutes. I also think the anchors on Ch.8 explain it better. Ch.5 and especially 11 or awful. Howver i will say the older dude on Ch.11 is pretty damn good but that Khristina and her helpers are awful.
 
I wasn't impressed with Kristine when she was on 8 and have no idea what KTVT was thinking when they hired her! They should have brought Bob back instead of making him suffer out there on 33!
 
gpzyzyzf said:
Ok....now I'm confused. When WBAP didn't do ANYTHING....we ripped them to shreds. Now when they go wall to wall with Delkus and Dungan....it's OVERKILL?

Can anyone explain to me???? Thanks
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People at this site will bitch, moan, and complain no matter what happens. There is no way to please them.
 
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