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Weather on 6/4

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What is everyone’s opinion of the radio weather coverage on Saturday? Granted, this did not involve any tornadoes in the immediate Oklahoma City area (at the time of this post).

As usual, Citadel did quite a good job. Most of their FMs gave updates and WKY simulcast KWTV for a long time.

Clear Channel at least had the EAS going to mention when the tornado warnings were issued for Grady County and KTOK gave numerous updates.

I listened briefly to “The House” (on 99.7) and was impressed with their attempts to at least cover the weather, unlike so many of the other stations in Oklahoma City.

Renda did poorly, as usual. Randy Renner did a good job on KOKC giving updates during the baseball game. I couldn’t believe on KOMA-FM when Buzz Barton mentioned the tornado warning for Grady County, he failed to mention any specifics, such as the fact that the tornado was on the ground and approaching Marlow. All he said was "The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Grady County until 7:30pm".

Just after 7pm, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Oklahoma County, yet it was not mentioned at all on KOMA.

I’m sorry, but I think having Renda as KFOR’s weather partner is a liability, rather than an asset anymore for KFOR.
 
> What is everyone’s opinion of the radio weather coverage on
> Saturday? Granted, this did not involve any tornadoes in the
> immediate Oklahoma City area (at the time of this post).
>
> As usual, Citadel did quite a good job. Most of their FMs
> gave updates and WKY simulcast KWTV for a long time.
>
> Clear Channel at least had the EAS going to mention when the
> tornado warnings were issued for Grady County and KTOK gave
> numerous updates.
>
> I listened briefly to “The House” (on 99.7) and was
> impressed with their attempts to at least cover the weather,
> unlike so many of the other stations in Oklahoma City.
>
> Renda did poorly, as usual. Randy Renner did a good job on
> KOKC giving updates during the baseball game. I couldn’t
> believe on KOMA-FM when Buzz Barton mentioned the tornado
> warning for Grady County, he failed to mention any
> specifics, such as the fact that the tornado was on the
> ground and approaching Marlow. All he said was "The National
> Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Grady
> County until 7:30pm".


He should have read the entire warning.

Just my experience, but you cannot trust a DJ to cover the weather when it is bad.

And I do not mean all jocks, just some.

Two things: many jocks just don't care, and others are just too busy with their on-air work to keep close tabs.

Finally, you don't know what a music station's policy is as far as covering severe weather. When I started in the '70s, many tiny FMs simply igonored weather especially the old automated stations.

A news person or weatherman should be in charge of severe weather coverage. If they are in the studios, they should be called in.

However, although I don't live in OKC, I have heard that KOKC's coverage of news, weather and everything else is horrible -- rock bottom.



> Just after 7pm, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for
> Oklahoma County, yet it was not mentioned at all on KOMA.
>
> I’m sorry, but I think having Renda as KFOR’s weather
> partner is a liability, rather than an asset anymore for
> KFOR.
>
 
Channel 9/WKY had the best coverage hands-down. You cannot compete with Gary England in OKC.



> > What is everyone’s opinion of the radio weather coverage
> on
> > Saturday? Granted, this did not involve any tornadoes in
> the
> > immediate Oklahoma City area (at the time of this post).
> >
> > As usual, Citadel did quite a good job. Most of their FMs
> > gave updates and WKY simulcast KWTV for a long time.
> >
> > Clear Channel at least had the EAS going to mention when
> the
> > tornado warnings were issued for Grady County and KTOK
> gave
> > numerous updates.
> >
> > I listened briefly to “The House” (on 99.7) and was
> > impressed with their attempts to at least cover the
> weather,
> > unlike so many of the other stations in Oklahoma City.
> >
> > Renda did poorly, as usual. Randy Renner did a good job
> on
> > KOKC giving updates during the baseball game. I couldn’t
> > believe on KOMA-FM when Buzz Barton mentioned the tornado
> > warning for Grady County, he failed to mention any
> > specifics, such as the fact that the tornado was on the
> > ground and approaching Marlow. All he said was "The
> National
> > Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Grady
> > County until 7:30pm".
>
>
> He should have read the entire warning.
>
> Just my experience, but you cannot trust a DJ to cover the
> weather when it is bad.
>
> And I do not mean all jocks, just some.
>
> Two things: many jocks just don't care, and others are just
> too busy with their on-air work to keep close tabs.
>
> Finally, you don't know what a music station's policy is as
> far as covering severe weather. When I started in the '70s,
> many tiny FMs simply igonored weather especially the old
> automated stations.
>
> A news person or weatherman should be in charge of severe
> weather coverage. If they are in the studios, they should
> be called in.
>
> However, although I don't live in OKC, I have heard that
> KOKC's coverage of news, weather and everything else is
> horrible -- rock bottom.
>
>
>
> > Just after 7pm, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued
> for
> > Oklahoma County, yet it was not mentioned at all on KOMA.
>
> >
> > I’m sorry, but I think having Renda as KFOR’s weather
> > partner is a liability, rather than an asset anymore for
> > KFOR.
> >
>
 
> Channel 9/WKY had the best coverage hands-down. You cannot
> compete with Gary England in OKC.

In my opinion, Gary England should have been put out to pasture ~10 years ago. I have seen KWTV actually run 10+ minute old radar images where there was a tornado warning for Oklahoma County (back when Valley Brook was hit with a small tornado in 2000)! On the average, KFOR has the better product during severe weather. However, the declining quality of their radio partner is their worst liability.
 
> > What is everyone’s opinion of the radio weather coverage
> on
> > Saturday? Granted, this did not involve any tornadoes in
> the
> > immediate Oklahoma City area (at the time of this post).
> >
> > As usual, Citadel did quite a good job. Most of their FMs
> > gave updates and WKY simulcast KWTV for a long time.
> >
> > Clear Channel at least had the EAS going to mention when
> the
> > tornado warnings were issued for Grady County and KTOK
> gave
> > numerous updates.
> >
> > I listened briefly to “The House” (on 99.7) and was
> > impressed with their attempts to at least cover the
> weather,
> > unlike so many of the other stations in Oklahoma City.
> >
> > Renda did poorly, as usual. Randy Renner did a good job
> on
> > KOKC giving updates during the baseball game. I couldn’t
> > believe on KOMA-FM when Buzz Barton mentioned the tornado
> > warning for Grady County, he failed to mention any
> > specifics, such as the fact that the tornado was on the
> > ground and approaching Marlow. All he said was "The
> National
> > Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Grady
> > County until 7:30pm".
>
>
> He should have read the entire warning.
>
> Just my experience, but you cannot trust a DJ to cover the
> weather when it is bad.
>
> And I do not mean all jocks, just some.
>
> Two things: many jocks just don't care, and others are just
> too busy with their on-air work to keep close tabs.
>
> Finally, you don't know what a music station's policy is as
> far as covering severe weather. When I started in the '70s,
> many tiny FMs simply igonored weather especially the old
> automated stations.
>
> A news person or weatherman should be in charge of severe
> weather coverage. If they are in the studios, they should
> be called in.
>
> However, although I don't live in OKC, I have heard that
> KOKC's coverage of news, weather and everything else is
> horrible -- rock bottom.

The lights are still on in Oklahoma's Largest Radio Newsroom", but no one is home. For a spoken-word formatted station, KOKC's news commitment is a JOKE. Now that I think about it, KOKC in general is a joke. It's a 50,000 watt light bulb someone forgot to turn off.


>
>
>
> > Just after 7pm, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued
> for
> > Oklahoma County, yet it was not mentioned at all on KOMA.
>
> >
> > I’m sorry, but I think having Renda as KFOR’s weather
> > partner is a liability, rather than an asset anymore for
> > KFOR.
> >
>

If I were KFOR I'd stop even bothering to mention them until they could be relied on to carry their weather coverage. To me it would be highly embarrasing to drive listeners headed to "their safe place" to only discover the station the TV station told them to listen to was too busy with other programming to give them the information to save their lives. I would think less of both the TV station and the radio station for not caring enough to make sure I could get the information I needed. Then I'd tune to WKY and know that Gary and WKY care enough to make sure I got what I needed. In fact, I DID listen to Gary that night. He was keeping advised.


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