Comments on: Local TV stations, Weather Channel scramble to cover flooding, including Jim Cantore’s thoughts

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» Solution for “Newsfail” Situations | outside.in blog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:53:07 +0000

[...] there was a significant lack of coverage on the terrible massive flooding in the Atlanta area and local TV stations were scrambling to cover the story. Such big, important news and no one seemed to have been on top of it in a [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:15:45 +0000

Great post, Rodney. Now put your radio hat back on and compare WSB 750’s coverage of the weather and traffic Monday to WGST 640 and WGKA 920. From what I could tell 640 did not do anything out of the ordinary Monday morning or evening, while WGKA did some special reporting in the morning but not in the evening.
As a resident of Gwinnett that uses Ronald Reagan Parkway, my commute Monday evening was a horror, and I need to vent a bit on WSB. It took two hours to get from 85 and Pleasant Hill to RRP and I did not hear on 750 for any of the first hour that RRP was closed at Pleasant Hill, when clearly it had to have been closed for a while for traffic to have gotten that bad. Finally, a caller to Mark Arum’s show mentioned it, and it was in some folowing reports.
Which also brings up the need in NE Metro (population 1-million or so) for a local AM or FM news-talker. WSB tries to cover the whole metro area and it seems is spread too thin.

By: atlBOY

atlBOY — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:12:46 +0000

way to go emergency crews, including the georgia national guard out there saving lives!!