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eskipper411

Woke up this morning and found a traffic map on WFAA-3. What happened to the radar?
 
As storms rolled through the DFW area this afternoon, the radar was back.

As of 10 PM, it's still there, although it's showing radar near Palestine for some reason. (There are some storms in that area, but I'm pretty sure Palestine is outside WFAA's coverage area ;) )
 
JHBrandt said:
As storms rolled through the DFW area this afternoon, the radar was back.

As of 10 PM, it's still there, although it's showing radar near Palestine for some reason. (There are some storms in that area, but I'm pretty sure Palestine is outside WFAA's coverage area ;) )
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They were doing what I call "the nightlight method" where they interrupt the traffic map and go to radar.
 
JHBrandt said:
As storms rolled through the DFW area this afternoon, the radar was back.

As of 10 PM, it's still there, although it's showing radar near Palestine for some reason. (There are some storms in that area, but I'm pretty sure Palestine is outside WFAA's coverage area ;) )
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Being from that area, Palestine (and Anderson County entirely) is technically considered by Nielsen to be part of the DFW Market, despite the fact that a majority of the Tyler stations put out a grade A signal that can reach into the northern part of Anderson County, and that cable companies in the county carry mostly the Tyler stations.

Unfortunately, Dish and DirecTV won't allow viewers in Anderson County the luxury of the Tyler stations, saddling viewers with the Dallas stations.
 
eskipper411 said:
They were doing what I call "the nightlight method" where they interrupt the traffic map and go to radar.
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I noticed they're back to traffic today. And the fact that Nielsen considers Palestine part of WFAA's coverage area (even though you'd need a heck of an antenna to pull it in OTA) explains why 8.3 was still on radar when storms were in that area.

I wonder, though, why they still give traffic priority over radar at 11:30 PM ::)
 
This bug'd me as well. Its just me but i would rather have a radar on full screen than just a half screen. I e-mailed in an ask'd what the deal was. This is the reply :
"Thank you for your e-mail.

We hear your concerns, and we are working to have the radar on 8.2 at all times either in the large window or in the small window when news programming is on. We know you need your radar! So please bear with us.

As for 8.3, we are transitioning to more programming on that channel. And our first step is to turn it into a 24-hour traffic channel.

Thanks for taking the time to comment and thanks for watching!"

Katharyn DeVille | WFAA Digital Producer
 
24 hour traffic? Who's gonna watch that?

They'd be better off doing some sort of ESPN ticker on 8.3 - or maybe ESPNEWS itself. After all, KXAS/5.3 airs Universal Sports network (mostly Olympic-style track and field, swimming, even ping pong!), so maybe give the folks without cable or satellite a bone and air ESPNEWS.

Personally, I'd rather have the radar, tho. Any chance KTVT-DT or KDFW-DT might consider a digital subchannel with radar?
 
At least (at the moment anyway while I am looking at it), 8.2 has weather radar, maps, and the forecast with "News 8 Now" rotating while 8.3 has the traffic map. A while ago they had traffic on both. An hour from now they may have changed it again.
 
Did NAVTEQ buy all the time on WFAA-DT 8.3? During tonight's storms, there was NO radar on 8.3. There was the typical scrunched radar on 8.2, but no tiny inset screen - it was a webcam shot of the exterior of Victory Park.

Whatever happened to "serving the public interest as a public trustee?" Sounds like we need to file a protest next time WFAA wants to renew its license. No matter how much KXAS sucks, at least 5.2 consistently shows the weather - and when their radar is working, shows it, too.
 
Well the radar on 5.2 and/or 8.2 didn't last long. Where's the weather map when you need it! Right now about 9:40 AM with lots of rain and lightning coming through, I can't find ONE local station showing radar. Ch 5.2 has some unknown "E/I' programming , WFAA has animals with Jarod Miller "E/I" programming on 8.2 and the traffic map on 8.3.
 
oops.. dammit.. duplicate again! Where's that coffee...
 
Megapsycle said:
Well the radar on 5.2 and/or 8.2 didn't last long. Where's the weather map when you need it! Right now about 9:40 AM with lots of rain and lightning coming through, I can't find ONE local station showing radar. Ch 5.2 has some unknown "E/I' programming , WFAA has animals with Jarod Miller "E/I" programming on 8.2 and the traffic map on 8.3.
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Well, as I understand it the FCC requires 3 hours per week of educational/informational programming on each subchannel. But I think they could still schedule their E/I programming at different times so they could have the radar up on one channel or the other all the time. And if that means the radar replaces the traffic map on 8.3 while 8.2 does their E/I programming, I doubt anyone would have a problem with it.
 
Why can't they show "Bull Crap with Jarod Crapper" on 8.3? Because that's all they show is bull feces.
 
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