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WAKM Flood Coverage

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spew

Flipped around the dial at around 6pm during the flood disaster in Nashville Saturday and WAKM 950 was about the only station on the air covering the story. The Nashville stations all just doing same ol same ol...WSM carrying the Opry lameness, WLAC with its syndicated whatever...and on FM everybody in the box.

Thank you WAKM!!!
 
Broaden your horizons, Spew....... 99.7 was talking about the conditions, taking calls from people out in it all, etc. from yesterday afternoon thru the evening.
 
spew said:
and on FM everybody in the box.
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may I respectfully suggest you wouldn't know the difference between live and VT if it bit you on the ass.
thank you.

please flame on.
 
Kudos to the TV stations for their excellent coverage!
 
Sunday 10AM...the disaster hightens...major interstates closed...rescues underway...flooding getting worse....just heard a promo on WTN for its flood coverage but no coverage...flipped around the AM/FM dial in Nashville...nothing. Sad.
 
Because of the power outtages many people have no t-v. This is Nashville radio's big chance and it is blowing it, caught with its pants down and news budgets gone.
 
Kudos to my staff.. John, Suay, Mike and Leon for staying on top of it in Maury and south Williamson Counties.. Thanks "Duckmen".. "Skip"
 
I was in Nashville for a funeral yesterday and was happy I wasn't still an 'air guy' anchoring or reporting. It felt good to sit around with friends afterward and wait for the rain to quit and go home.
 
Our daughter echos this thanks to WAKM. She was in Nashville trying to get back south and couldn't find anyone doing anything except WAKM. There isn't a station in Nashville that shouldn't have been all over this. People died. Danger existed everywhere. Weather records were set.

We all know why the big corporate stations didn't respond, but that doesn't excuse them. I guess in today's radio, the ability to talk lenders into mind-boggling amounts of debt excuses you from having to serve the public.

How low will it go? Some say people are going to have to die before it changes.

Do you seriously think it will change anything at the station with the big owners that start with a "C"? Or a "G"?

If so, I'm covering all bets.
 
I don't think there necessarily needed every station going wall to wall per se. For the cluster stations for example (Cumulus and Clear Channel). Take one station, have them do all the coverage, than on the other stations within that cluster, have them announce regularly, "For news & information on the storm, tune to WXYZ".
 
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