[BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?

[Broadcast List USER]

Well, there you go, and this is a real indictment of radio today.

With MANNED operations, the PEOPLE in the station can be the filter.   
They can give out the important weather information without clogging  
the air with repeated automated repeats of the same information for  
multiple counties.

The public is properly informed, yet the air is not filled with frog  
farts.


Look at TV broadcasters carried widely on cable systems.  Most do a  
pretty good job by shrinking the screen, putting audio beeps on the  
air, and using maps and crawls in the top and left side margins  
created by shrinking the main programming video.

In the past, with manned stations, the announcers could filter the  
massive amounts of location specific information, making it more  
general, and PROPERLY informing the public.

I just cannot see NOT informing the public about dangerous weather.   
Sometimes, that may work out.  But, once rescue workers start dragging  
out dead bodies out of the wreckage, things go downhill fast.

"Why didn't Wxxx let us know what was coming?  I was listening to them  
and we had our house flattened.  My family was killed because we  
didn't go into our tornado shelter."

--chip

On Oct 9, 2009, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 22
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From: towers at mre.com
> Subject: Re: [BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?
> [big snippage ...]
> While I agree that stations {{{should}}} relay call to action messages
> (Tornado, Flash FLood, and Tsumami, Evacuation), there is a point of
> diminishing returns and/or excessive congestion. Our stations only  
> relay
> TOR and FFR for the county in which the CoL is located and select  
> adjacent
> counties. But for the really wide coverage stations, it doesn't make  
> sense
> except for their home county and may first adjacent counties.
>
> MM