feedback.pdxradio.com Topic: Severe weather - AM radio reacts

jimbo on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

jimbo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:51:57 +0000

"What you hear on 87.75 MHz is the actual channel 6 sound carrier; it is not a simulcast, as many people seem to think. " Anyone who doesn't know that probably shouldn't really be posting here.

Alfredo_T on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

Alfredo_T — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:08:13 +0000

<blockquote> I don't know why more of the AM channels don't cover the TV news like KOIN has at 87.8 or wherever that is. </blockquote> What you hear on 87.75 MHz is the actual channel 6 sound carrier; it is not a simulcast, as many people seem to think.

Darktemper on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

Darktemper — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:47:03 +0000

92.3 just had an emergency severe weather warning located 20 miles North of Detroit. Sounds pretty bad down here, I wonder if it will head our way?

missing_kskd on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

missing_kskd — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:21:27 +0000

<blockquote>Well, we're doing it again.</blockquote> +5 "Go Get Em!" @ hwidsten

jr_tech on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

jr_tech — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:09:53 +0000

"KOIN has at 87.8" That will be gone next Friday when KOIN-TV turns off its analog transmitter...

Waynes World on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

Waynes World — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:21:15 +0000

I don't know why more of the AM channels don't cover the TV news like KOIN has at 87.8 or wherever that is. its the logical solution for a station that is not doing well. someone at work could hear the news on his radio or on his car on the way home.

hwidsten on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

hwidsten — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:45:07 +0000

I think it is great that there are Portland area stations and those smaller market stations outside the metro that broke away from regular programming to warn their listeners about the storm situation. I think it is too bad that anyone had to write anything here about stations that did not. Reporting breaking news/weather events first is something that once belonged exclusively to Radio, and somehow we let the TV guys begin to take that position away from us in some markets. The thought that a News or Talk station has to simulcast with a television station during severe weather makes me crazy. In the last several months we've been doing a lot of self-examination to see what things we can do to raise our profile in the community. We've decided that one of those is to go on the air as soon as we can when there is a fire reported, bad weather getting close, etc. In other words, we're going back to the old days when stations broke into programming immediately, and then billboarded the event until a reporter got there and had a chance to do a live report from the scene. It is shades of Gordon McClendon's News philosophy, and it sounds great. I have a good friend who, when reminded about something his stations did for a long time and then stopped, has this saying: "It worked so well, we stopped doing it." Well, we're doing it again.

motozak3 on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

motozak3 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:14:03 +0000

Okay, I need to fix up my old radio and put it back on the bike....... I was running a delivery downtown (Vancouver) on Wednesday and got caught in the dust storm just before the rain started......horrible for my asthma so I had to get indoors. So I pulled in to the Red Lion at the Quay and had lunch (late lunch; it was about 4:30 or so by then) and had to call my cousin to come and get me and my bike. NOT going to ride back to the flat when it is thunder and lightning out! Damn me for being so stupid tho!!

skeptical on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

skeptical — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:16:21 +0000

Here's something to think about . . . when the weather went wacko, we turned on our TELEVISION set! Didn't even think to listen to the radio -- something I might have done 10 years ago. Sad, eh?

MarkAndrews on "Severe weather - AM radio reacts"

MarkAndrews — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:09:07 +0000

As someone who has had NWS training and certification as a storm spotter, and since such a weather event in Oregon is a rarity, this is NEWS... I'm just thankful to hear that stations rose to the occasion. Radio is usually at it's best when something is breaking "now"...All that simulcasting going on was to make sure short-staffed stations could get the word out to their respective audiences. When I lived in Portland, I remember seeing three lightning flashes and hearing five thunderclaps. The talk at work the next day was "Hey, did you get a load of that thunderstorm last night?" "YEAH! That was really something, wasn't it?" Down here in the desert, it's a little different. Some places will get a short shower, and others will get a royal downpour...very hit and miss. And we do the same thing: "Did it RAIN at your house last night?" "Well, no, but I DID smell it!" (Sometimes you smell the rain, but it evaporates before it hits the ground.) The TV weather wizards go nuts, too. But that's what we get for having hot summers and maybe 7-1/2 inches of annual rainfall... Just be grateful that Oregon doesn't normally get weather like Oklahoma...Now THOSE are thunderstorms and then some! When tones sound on radio or TV in advance of a weather warning, EVERYTHING stops and you pay attention...Your very survival through a violent spell of weather could depend on it.