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WMAC weather coverage

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Bengalsfan

After seeing some friends' Facebook posts about severe storms and looking at channel 13's radar online, I thought I'd call up WMAC to see if they were simulcasting WMAZ and listen to some weather coverage.

Boy was I wrong.

WMAC is currently running a repeat of Boortz with the occasional EAS alert.

And the company that owns WMAC is only getting bigger so I assume to pay down the debt they are about to take on, even more cuts to public service will happen. I tell all my friends to not depend on the media anymore for service in times like this. If you live in an area that has frequent severe weather, get a NOAA weather radio.

Good to know that, should a tornado wipe out your neighborhood, you can still listen to the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth while you pick up the pieces.
 
On a weekend, I doubt there was anyone on hand to monitor the situation and join a simulcast. Broadcasting in the public interest is so passé. If you were to contact WMAC with an inquiry, I predct all you'd get in reply is a form letter telling you that the station is cooperating with GEMA and whatever other -EMA you have in that area; and that you can depend on WMAC for the most up-to-date information, news, etc. ad nauseum (M-F, during regular business hours).

I'm getting hand cramps from programming NOAA receivers and giving them as wedding gifts, etc. I urge any of you, who are inclined to do to so, to follow suit. Even as I type this, my own NOAA radio is steadily chiming its alert signal and bringing the news of severe weather close by. I'd turn on the radio, but why?
 
From what I heard traveling in my car once the sirens went off Macon radio stations in general were pretty usless for weather information. If you are not at home near a TV set you are out of luck. But, I guess thats what radio has come to. Too bad.
 
Steve Malone said:
From what I heard traveling in my car once the sirens went off Macon radio stations in general were pretty usless for weather information. If you are not at home near a TV set you are out of luck. But, I guess thats what radio has come to. Too bad.
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TV is well and good, until you have to go to the basement!

On one hand, I'm really kind of surprised that somebody could not get to the studio in order to at least set up a simulcast with WMAZ or something. Then on the other hand, after coming through Macon one Sunday last summer and hearing 5 minutes of Fox News and no local report, I'm not surprised.

I guess it's like you said, Witchlover. serving the public interest is so last century.
 
Where I live, there is a news/talk station, local in AM drive, syndicated the remainder of the day. They do have local news breaks throughout the day, at least on weekdays. Recently, we had a major crime. Atlanta TV covered it mostly live, with extended coverage on the web. The radio station mentioned it, perhaps once or twice during the afternoon. That was it. No reporters on the scene, no first hand knowledge of what was going on, only an AP reader every now and then. I worked in the the radio news business for decades. I'm sad to hear it deteriorate before my ears.
 
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