Who is running WSB in the morning?

[notalkallstatic]

Is there a jellyfish running the board in the morning? In the last several weeks, I’ve noticed that there are at least 2 pretty substantial mistakes per day in the morning. You name, I’ve seen it in the past several weeks on WSB in the morning.

It’s really turning me off from watching them. I would watch 11Alive, but there is something about Flip Spiceland I don’t like, and CBS 46’s morning show, well, we won’t even go there.

Maybe, I will try 11Alive again.

That is my two cents.

 

[ExNuYawker]

I was watching Brad Nitz on Sunday morning around 9am and he just froze up for 15 seconds and then they went to commercial for several minutes. He came back on and apologized for their technical problems and did the rest of the weather in front of a monitor. They need to clean things up and quickly!! I am mostly an 11alive watcher anyway in the mornings.

 

[tlyle]

I used to be a WSB news watcher until about 5 years ago. When WSB started having their reporters do live shots saying they were at a location, when in reality they were miles away; their credibility went downhill with me. Also, many of their reporters do not know the correct names of streets or how to say them. Also, you would think Glen Burns would know most of the towns in Georgia after being on the air for 25 years. Yet, when a major storm comes through, he reads the compuer and mispronounces the city/neighborhood name.

Lastly, I got tired of the sensational reporting. Someone from outside of Atlanta asked me what Atlanta News (WSB) was like. I gave them this analogy. In other cities, they report the facts. An example would be that they report someone "sneezed" today. It would be a simple fact. In Atlanta, they would report someone "sneezed", get an expert on "sneezing", talk to witnesses about the "sneezing" event, review the history of "sneezing", and discuss if a "sneez" could occur again. I know most of the Atlanta newsrooms do this, but WSB is really bad about it. They even tease you with this stuff.

I like 11alive best. Going to miss Wes Sargensen.

 

[JackieSteele]

Also, you would think Glen Burns would know most of the towns in Georgia after being on the air for 25 years. Yet, when a major storm comes through, he reads the compuer and mispronounces the city/neighborhood name.

Longform severe weather coverage turns your brain to jelly. I've done it for up to three hours straight on radio and it will make you absolutely stupid. You're hoarse, exhausted, and punch-drunk. (And on TV, you're also standing the entire time and pointing at a blank blue wall!). Add in the fact that you're trying to mentally process locations, radar data, and warning information... you stop THINKING about what shows up on the map and start just saying the first thing your subconscious mind processes based on the letters it sees. Nevermind that you've seen the area mentioned a hundred times before. "How-stun" county will come out as "Hyoo-stun" dang-near everytime. That's not even considering that a lot of the towns that pop up on storm-tracker-type radars are areas that aren't even on most maps. How many of you could drive me to Chalybeate Springs in Meriwether County? How about Viola in Heard County? Now... who knows how to pronounce them -- after three hours of blabbing -- when you don't live there?

Give Glenn a break. WSB is always the station we have our in-studio TVs tuned to when the skies darken.