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WRGT meteorologist calls out "Bachelorette" fans

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Ccook55

As tornadoes tore into Ohio's Miami Valley Monday night, Jamie Simpson from Fox affiliate WRGT broke into regular programming on his station and ABC duopoly station WKEF to alert viewers about warnings and to take cover. The broadcast bumped ABC's The Bachelorette, prompting fans of the show to take to social media to demand the show go back on.

Simpson's reply and diatribe can be seen here.
 
Ccook55 said:
As tornadoes tore into Ohio's Miami Valley Monday night, Jamie Simpson from Fox affiliate WRGT broke into regular programming on his station and ABC duopoly station WKEF to alert viewers about warnings and to take cover. The broadcast bumped ABC's The Bachelorette, prompting fans of the show to take to social media to demand the show go back on.

Simpson's reply and diatribe can be seen here.
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Great to see that the TV station has his back on this. Well said and well done. And well deserved to fans of shows like "The Bachelorette," who might just need a few tornadoes to thin out their numbers and help improve the gene pool for future generations.
 
I believe something similar happened earlier this year in Georgia when a station
had to break-in with weather alerts and interrupt The Masters.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I believe something similar happened earlier this year in Georgia when a station
had to break-in with weather alerts and interrupt The Masters.
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Same goes for golf fans as goes for Bachelorette fans. I see future generations getting smarter by the minute if those twisters cooperate!
 
Some people are just entitled morons, especially caring about a dumb-ass reality show when there are lives at stake.
 
I really do get it. I've been the guy on the radio with weather bulletins and people don't like it any more on radio. But I've also been that guy who wanted to watch Sunday Night Football when there was a tornado warning on the fringes of my market.

I do wish broadcasters would use more nuance in deciding whether continuing coverage is necessary. Certainly what was going on in Dayton warranted continuing coverage.

But here in the midwest we often get storms which might put down an EF-0 tornado for 5 minutes, which then dissipates. Those scenarios generally do not warrant continuing coverage. Similarly, I recall watching tape of the coverage of the tornado which destroyed Greensburg, KS vis KSNG a decade or so ago. That storm was moving at a glacial 10 miles an hour over rural Kansas farmland. KSNG dropped in and out of coverage a few times until the storm got very close to Greensburg, which seems absolutely sufficient to me.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I believe something similar happened earlier this year in Georgia when a station
had to break-in with weather alerts and interrupt The Masters.
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That was Atlanta's WGCL which actually did a split screen with their weather coverage on the left and Masters coverage on the right. Having the audio of the Masters coverage muted seemed to irk some folks here. I'm thinking that Augusta's WRDW probably had some alerts as the line of storms approached late in the tournament.
 
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