On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 23:52, Terry Knab <te...@knab.org> wrote: > Try living in tornado alley and considering radio dead. Far from it. You > can't find out what's going on in a tornado zone on XM/Sirius or Pandora. > Not gonna happen.
Depends on the quality of your local radio station. On the Sunday of Labor Day weekend last year, there were at least four major wildfires within 20 miles of downtown Austin, all in populated areas, including one that was at least partially within the city limits. In the 2-hour drive home from the event I had been at, there were precisely four stations on which I heard any reference to the situation whatsoever. (Our NPR affiliate, a news-talk AM station, an automated station that was parroting the EAS activations being sent out by weather radio, and one DJ that mentioned the major road closures without explaining why the roads were closed.) The TV stations got some public criticism for doing crawls and occasional cut-ins rather than wall to wall coverage and someone at one of the stations pretty much admitted that they don't have enough money to afford a big enough staff to simultaneously gather news and produce a live news broadcast on a Sunday afternoon. -- David J. Lynch djly...@gmail.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
