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Who had the best Ike Coverage?

Considering the majority of Houston couldn't understand it, nor did they tune over there... I disagree.
 
I thought KBXX did a good job.
 
KTRH did a very good job of covering Ike. It reminded of the time when Hurricane Alicia hit in 1983. KUHF also had good coverage. During this time of radio stations with slashed budgets along with minimal staff, it's difficult to do the job that we broadcasters expect.

KNTH covered the hurricane until lost power at the transmitter around 3AM Saturday and did not get back on the air until late Sunday afternoon.

My vote goes for KTRH.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
KTRH did a very good job of covering Ike. It reminded of the time when Hurricane Alicia hit in 1983. KUHF also had good coverage. During this time of radio stations with slashed budgets along with minimal staff, it's difficult to do the job that we broadcasters expect.

KNTH covered the hurricane until lost power at the transmitter around 3AM Saturday and did not get back on the air until late Sunday afternoon.

My vote goes for KTRH.
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Chuck I couldn't agree more. I was able to listen to KTRH in New Baunfels, and they were on top of it. As I said in the "Ike" thread, thanks to all of the Houston media for the coverage. My vote is for all who tirelessly covered the storm and its aftermath. Thank you all.

poops
 
KTRH on the radio side, as they kept up to date with what was going down from the first storm bands till it left. I also nominate KHOU-11 on the TV side, we were able to see the simulcast of KHOU on 8.2 digital up here in Dallas and I found it more informative than what the local stations up here were farming out, esp NBC5, which was basically just Jay Grey putting in NBC feed reports.
 
Univision did a terrible Coverage of the storm! The that guy Muneco was talking like this! " Umm, umm, Im not sure about who has power, um im not sure about this. Im not sure about that. This guy wasent sure of anything!
 
The Beaumont CC cluster led by KLVI has done an admirable job as well, covering information in the Golden Triangle as well as Crystal Beach/High Island/Winnie areas. I've been listening from the Dallas area.
 
KTRH did a fantastic job and Jack (i think) who were broadcasting Channel 11.

Hope everyone is ok. We got power Sunday at 1:30 or so and full-on water about 6pm.

cheers!

dave.
 
Houston should be proud. KTRH did a good job and most of the TV stations were stellar and well prepared. I sat with my family, hunkered down in our house looking at the 2" TV screen on the portable TV after we lost power at 10:30. All this with the 80-100 MPH winds blowing outside. We were never out of touch. Just when you thought all was lost with the Houston media, they come through. On the TV side 11 & 13 were hands down the best. 2 was adequet and 26 of course brought up the rear. On the radio side I only listened to KTRH so I cannot comment on any other station.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
My vote goes for KTRH.
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I would have agreed with you until yesterday morning's interview with former FEMA head Michael Brown. The "newsman" (and I need to use that term loosely here, hence the quotes) lined up softball after softball, framing the interview in such a way that Brown could rewrite history regarding his performance during Katrina. This wasn't a news interview, it was partisan political hackery, right down to the interviewer editorializing as he asked the questions. Perhaps the morning guy at KTRH was auditioning for Fox News, but it was shameful. It pissed me off so much I haven't listened to them since.

I do give Cox credit for putting their morning shows on during the storm. At 12:30 in the morning when I couldn't see outside and it sounded like my windows wouldn't hold, it was nice to hear something that wasn't TV audio when I was sick of TV and couldn't sleep.

I didn't hear anyone giving out secondhand info while I flipped around... everything seemed well sourced.

As for TV, I watched 13 most of the time, and 11 occasionally. The only quibble I had with anything on TV was once I lost power and was down to a 5" B&W battery TV set, it was hard to read the radar maps because you couldn't tell between some of the shades of grey. Oh well, that sucker will be useless next year anyway...
 
adguy said:
Houston should be proud. KTRH did a good job and most of the TV stations were stellar and well prepared. I sat with my family, hunkered down in our house looking at the 2" TV screen on the portable TV after we lost power at 10:30. All this with the 80-100 MPH winds blowing outside. We were never out of touch. Just when you thought all was lost with the Houston media, they come through. On the TV side 11 & 13 were hands down the best. 2 was adequet and 26 of course brought up the rear. On the radio side I only listened to KTRH so I cannot comment on any other station.
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I only receive KRTK here in College Station (Through Suddenlink), and I think they did a superb job. Even as I type, they are rolling news in and out. I didn't feel like running out to Radio Shack to buy Bunny ears to follow up on KPRC, KHOU, KIAH, and KRIV. Just sat back, opened up a cold one, and enjoyed the day off, heck, I even played a little Football during the late part of the storm! Too bad many Houstonians are still out of power and are running low on supplies.
 
I was here in waco and watched khou . HONESTLY I THINK THEY DID A FANTASTIC JOB AT THE COVERAGE. IM POSTONG THIS FROM MY CELL PHONE SO FORGIVE ME IF THIS ISNT PERFECT
 
KRBE did a good job the past few days with updating info on the aftermath, sacrificing their time they could use to play top 40 music.

Kudos to the Conroe cox stations, Country Legends and The Point, for their simulcast of KHOU on Saturday. I was up in Madisonville without power and a battery operated radio. It sounded like they were simulcasting on all their stations at once after the storm because they would give out multiple IDs on the hour.

And, of course, KTRH.

CC stations did not do a big portion of information but I did see some a Mega 101 van at a pod on Sunday so I guess that was their way of helping out the community...as long as they did something.
 
cc isnt very good at doing anything other than automation, huh
 
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