[BC] The end of small town radio

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Scott:

I think you really have to announce school closings.  For one thing,  
not everyone has a cell phone, and not everyone receives texts.  If  
you want to ensure my wife won't get a message, send here a SMS!  Her  
parents are worse.

I will bet your county has an e-mail and text messaging system that  
sends out a lot of information.  My county does.  I get the really  
important stuff, evacuations and road closing, sent to my iPhone via  
text.  Everything else that I am subscribed to gets received as e-mail.

You should subscribe to the school closing part of it and you will  
know within moments of the kids.

--chip

On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:52 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 11
> From: "Scott Bailey" <wmroradio at bellsouth.net>
>
> Harold,
>    My 13 year old niece is faster "texting" than I am. Back in the  
> 80's, when the snow came, kids always called the local AM station  
> wanting to know if Sumner County Schools will be closed today,  
> tomorrow, etc. We would (and still do) announce it on the air.  
> Today, we get "O" calls about schools being closed.
>
>   Today, the kids know way before I do, thanks to the machine I'm  
> sending you this message on and the TV Stations in the Nashville  
> Market start local newscast at 4:30 AM, every morning before my  
> station can go to day power. We have just about gave up on  
> announcing about school closings here. Like I said, the kids and  
> parents get the info faster than we do from the school board.
>
> Scott Bailey
> WMRO Radio, Gallatin, TN