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Weather bulletins

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vchimpanzee

I can't recall if we have a topic about making weather updates into a commercial for the 11:00 newscast and airing them during the breaks, provided there's no real, immediate emergency. Which in our current weather situation there isn't. But I was pleased to this actually done over the past severl days.

Crawls usually work for the basic information unless you need maps and detailed descriptions. But several shows I watch had these during shows with subtitles. One station has solved this problem: crawls run at the top. But if your show is about a culture where an older family member understands but still refuses to speak English, or a show about conflicts between different ethnic groups, or it is a hidden-camera or home video show where it is sometimes hard to understand what a person is saying, you need subtitles.

I was dealing with two of the three this week. I don't think the show I watch which falls into the middle category has had crawls that ran with the subtitles on the screen, though they do have a news operation.
 
I was told by the Weather Bureau that the TV station gets the 'crawl' at the bottom of the screen and the Weather Service/FEMA gets the 'crawl' at the top of the screen. So you can tell the source.
 
I don't know if any of that's true. The station that has a crawl at the top of the screen has a sponsor there.

One station was doing two crawls at once. One was closings and had a sponsor between each closing. The other was a weather bulletin, with a sponsor on he right. Both were at the bottom of the screen.
 
Unregistered said:
I was told by the Weather Bureau that the TV station gets the 'crawl' at the bottom of the screen and the Weather Service/FEMA gets the 'crawl' at the top of the screen. So you can tell the source.
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At best this would be dependent on the specific Emergency Alert System box the tv station had whether the crawls were on top or bottom. But these days, the EAS box doesn't put any weather alerts directly on the air, that is done by a separate overlay system. They do this so the graphics look uniform with their news programming.
 
in 1995 i remember wyff doing a split screen during a nfl playoff game for a winter storm that was not in my area it was in sc
 
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