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motorcy90

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In a breaking news, severe weather situation, no one is going to bother tuning to kwwl any more. They just ceded the territory.
I would bounce between them and KCRG all the time up there. coverage will suffer because of this move.
 
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In a breaking news, severe weather situation, no one is going to bother tuning to kwwl any more. They just ceded the territory.

It’s too bad. They typically covered the northern part of the territory better than KCRG and KGAN. But I guess we’re going to have to rely on the internets now.
 
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Been snowing all day in CR. Maybe an inch or two accumulation on average. The bigger "issue" was that with the deep cold pool we have been in the salt/brine did not work as the roads were very cold soaked.
 

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I completely agree and I hope this doesn't become the norm but I believe it will be. Pay is **** and due to it there are next to no applications in most of these smaller markets when there is an opening.

So now in the CR/IC/ALO market you have one station with no mets now, one with at least one weatherman who although he has decades of experience does not have a meteorology degree and the rest are mostly (other than Joe) young mets that are very much still learning the presentation side of things. Then you have KGAN that is regularly a dumpster fire with at least one non-met with little broadcast experience on top of it.

Bring on IE but I would also suggest that they network out to mets around the state to help build up that side of things for severe weather coverage and whatnot that know the different areas a little more intimately than just one person.
Gray and Tegna have also done some hubbing of weather too. Hope they don't go as extreme as Allen has. It's a shame. Makes me worry about my long term viability in the industry.
 
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It’s too bad. They typically covered the northern part of the territory better than KCRG and KGAN. But I guess we’re going to have to rely on the internets now.
I imagine KGAN and KCRG will pick up the slack. Most people north of Waterloo would probably tune into KWWL for severe weather so no reason to go overkill, especially if there were multiple areas of severe weather.
 

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It’s still snowing. 3 inches is my guess
 

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Florida weather just playing a little game of 'Just the tip,' just seeing how it feels.
2/3 of the way down the peninsula here. (Basically straight E. of the northern edge of Lake Okeechobee.) Yesterday was horrendous. 40 MPH winds and rain "pellets" all day long in varying degrees of intensity. In 14 years of coming here this is the worst week of weather I've experienced. Haven't seen the sun or moon in about a week.

I know you're all "You poor baby!" but it really was pretty bad. Think of those windy cold rainy days in JTS in November and you have a pretty good idea.

By Sunday or Monday it should be back to more pleasant temps
 

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Allen Media is trying to unring the bell.

Sounds like they're backtracking on their decision to drop local mets.
This will go down exactly like it did when IHeart backtracked on the KXNO lay offs.

They'll keep it as it is for a couple years, and then slowly start to knock people off one at a time until one day you wake up and they're all gone.