WCBS 880

[maestromaster]

You know the business has hit a new low when traffic and weather together on the 8's is running weather on Saturday morning from Friday afternoon.

 

[CentralFL]

Wow, that is shocking. Especially on what is still a successful station in terms of both ratings and more importantly revenue.

 

[Kemosabe]

I should hope the traffic report was not rerun from Friday afternoon. Was the forecast accurate?

 

[Larry]

Hopefully a one time mistake or emergency. A few weeks fire alarm went off in building that houses KYW Newsradio in Philly. They had to evacuate building unexpectedly so for 15-30 minutes (don’t remember) they were repeating a newscast from the day before.

 

[ajaynejr]

I will swear I heard a Friday weather forecast on Sunday up in New England more than once, It was either WFEA Manchester NH or WRKO Boston, or both. WRKO (and also co-owned same city WBZ from time to time) rehash the same news (news cuts) hour after hour. Perhaps we need to get rid of the alleged censorship by the media so we have more variety. Or stations should skip the entire newscast on the half hour and take another caller or play another song if there is no new news from the top of the hour.

 

[JoeyBagODonuts]

It's a new format.. classic weather hits!

 

[AceBiscuits]

I'm not sure how recently this has been a thing, but WCBS has dropped the music package it was using in favor of the WTOP package from Reelworld.

 

[secondchoice]

As my Dad once said: To err is human, It requires a computer to really foul things up

 

[bigdonho]

Here in south Florida it's been the same forecast for the last 4 months so it would be no big deal.

Come to think of it, the news has been about the same for the last 4 months, as well.

 

[Xale57]

It's a new format.. classic weather hits!

The New Jack AM on 880. Reporting any forecast we feel like!

 

[davideduardo]

Here in south Florida it's been the same forecast for the last 4 months so it would be no big deal.

In Puerto Rico when I had both an AM and FM fully automated much of the day, we only needed a small set of weather cartridges... temperatures over the 70 to 89 degree range, each with "cloudy" or "rain in areas". Those represented every possibility. Only if there was a hurricane watch or warning did we do actual hourly updated reports.

Your point is very significant, as in the areas of the US like South Florida, there are no extremes.

Or, going back to around '73 when I was going to ASU in Phoenix I heard one of the KRIZ jocks, on the first day it hit 100°, say "It's 100 degrees in the Valley of the Sun... I could record that and play it till September."