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Weather Channel covers plains tornado warnings

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searadiofreak

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Well, perhaps The Weather Channel is starting to understand what it is there for. Wall to wall coverage of the tornado threat in the central plains this afternoon. However, they are repeating many of their "live" reports. This while they are working very hard on imaging their coverage as "being with you all night". Frankly, if I lived in this area, I would depend on my local stations more than The Weather Channel. Gary England, at KWTV Oklahoma City, is one of the best at this kind of coverage. I caught a little of him on-line yesterday.

I'm sure once this weather passes, TWC will go back to its "Storm Stories", and other new weather documentaries such as Ice Pilots, and Coast Guard Alaska.
 
What did you say it was called the Weather channel??? Funny, haven't seen much weather on this NBC station in quite awhile. It's sickening how much they've declined. Once the storms are over so will coverage of the weather.
 
I didn't see any of the Weather Channel's coverage, but from what I understand, they were far behind the local stations.

Oklahoma City stations spend a lot of money on storm coverage, and they all do an excellent job. Gary England is just so matter-of-fact and plain-spoken in his delivery, probably because it seems like England has been doing this since the dawn of television itself. "That tornado's fixin' to come down," or "large, destructive tornado has hit Woodward... anything you want to add, Marty?"

Wichita does a fine job too, but they don't have the same budgets as the Oklahoma City stations. None have helicopters. Only KSNW was streaming online last night. They don't have chasers in the field with hot spots and streaming video. They aren't paying to use professional chasers either. With the exception of sending photos to Twitter and Facebook, severe weather coverage in Wichita hasn't changed much since the 1990s.
 
TheRob said:
I didn't see any of the Weather Channel's coverage, but from what I understand, they were far behind the local stations.

Oklahoma City stations spend a lot of money on storm coverage, and they all do an excellent job. Gary England is just so matter-of-fact and plain-spoken in his delivery, probably because it seems like England has been doing this since the dawn of television itself. "That tornado's fixin' to come down," or "large, destructive tornado has hit Woodward... anything you want to add, Marty?"

Wichita does a fine job too, but they don't have the same budgets as the Oklahoma City stations. None have helicopters. Only KSNW was streaming online last night. They don't have chasers in the field with hot spots and streaming video. They aren't paying to use professional chasers either. With the exception of sending photos to Twitter and Facebook, severe weather coverage in Wichita hasn't changed much since the 1990s.
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Yes, you are completely correct. I am a weather geek so I will seek out on-line broadcasts. OKC, especially KWTV is the best. When things switched to Wichita, I noted that local stations tried hard, and did a good job, but nothing near the OKC presentation. Gary is the best tornado anchor in the country. (I suppose he is in the right place, central OK) He stays calm, but at the same time gives warnings at an increased vocal demeanor.
 
TheRob said:
Wichita does a fine job too, but they don't have the same budgets as the Oklahoma City stations. None have helicopters. Only KSNW was streaming online last night. They don't have chasers in the field with hot spots and streaming video. They aren't paying to use professional chasers either. With the exception of sending photos to Twitter and Facebook, severe weather coverage in Wichita hasn't changed much since the 1990s.
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I was able to get coverage from KWCH-CBS last night, but I had to go to their weather page and click their .2 streaming link to get it with the usual L-barred weather observations, but the video from the main KWCH channel. KAKE was completely down (overwhelmed, power outage? Not sure).
 
w00t said:
The best at tornado coverage, hands down, is James Spann at ABC-33/40 in Birmingham.
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I like James too. Watched him during the tragic Tuscaloosa tornado last year. Great weathercaster!

-crainbebo
 
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