Four weeks of worthless warnings leading to...

[kjnorman]

Originally posted by The Law
As far as locals going over the top to promote their "teams".  I've said it before - it's all cheeseball "doppler storm action crisis covering live latebreaking tune in at 10 to avoid near certain almost chance of thinking about death weather system 3d 4000" crap.

If only google could do a popup killer for this.

LOL :rofl: :rofl:

[Bebop]

Incase one couldn't get enough.

http://themilwaukeechannel.premiumweather.com/landing.asp?area=PPM_LANDINGPAGE&pageid=landing&host=WISN&c=ibs-wx-storm04&trackid=ibs-wx-storm04

[Joseph S]

And..how come it is...that same minority who complains about weather coverage never complains about the WAY to excessive coverage about the Packers during football season??

Hey, I was against the bogus simulcast ESPN Sunday night football coverage on WI$N with nothing more than a Wi$N green logo and also the pathetic christmas box and news years crap they plastered on the screen this year..

On the Sunday occasions they don't show the Alias HD program and don't provide an alternative just like during the finale yesterday. Next year, this will happen again and there will be ZERO Alias Repeats in 2005 for them to note.

I love how their Boston station has a mobile HD studio and these folks claim they can't afford a DVHS and make the janitor to run the "switch." Not buying it at all.

WI$N's GMs were great for lying about their noncompliance and plan to myself and others who inquired what was going on in 2002-3.

[borghe]

techboywi -

1. no comment.

2. they can provide an audible signal also.. I was just giving an example.. but there is a difference between an audible and visual cue to turn channels and interrupting broadcasts for almost an hour.

3. no, you only watched half of the simpsons.. the other half was weather bulletins.

4. first part, again it could just as well be an audible warning as a visual one. as for multi-casting, it is the lesser of two evils.. never have I said I hated them telling me there was a tornado.. I just don't agree that they should have preempted programming, especially during sweeps, especially during season finales, to show us CONSTANT coverage of a storm moving IN REALTIME.. You know how a storm moves in realtime? Slowly.. but they wanted to make sure you knew where every raindrop landed.

As for being in the minority.. normally you are right... but there has been a LOT of talk in the area about this one.. just at work alone.. more people were complaining about missing some or all of one of their shows across all of the networks than were talking about the weather... heck, even on the radio this morning there was a blurb about the "controversy" surrounding Sunday night's preemption. Certainly doesn't sound like the minority in this case, now does it.

And you know what? That's all that bothered me... I don't care about weather interruptions.. they happen. It's fine.. but cut in, tell the news, and then cutout.. you don't need to sit here for 5 minutes, and certainly not for 45 god damn minutes, keeping us up to the storms movement inch by inch. That is just irresponsible.. and I whole heartedly agree with an earlier post.. one station went to constant coverage (likely WISN), and the rest followed so as not to be left out... well, to the others I say congratulations... whereas one station could have been left with a boatload of complaints about such inexcusable behavior, now all of you get those complaints instead.

I also can't imagine the networks themselves are happy about this. I imagine jobs will be lost, and rightfully so IMHO.

P.S. As for the ESPN simulcast, it has nothing to do with local stations preempting national programming.. It is just a fact of life that a station in a teams DMA will secure rebroadcast rights with ESPN to air a Sunday night game. Unlike ABC, CBS, and FOX, ESPN is a pay only service.. The other difference is that when such reairings occur, they are scheduled, generally weeks in advance, at a set time. Normally this would be a minor inconvenience at best. In today's day and age of the DVR, it isn't even that...

With this weather interruption, who knew what time anything was going to be on.. In the case of AI (don't care) or Simpsons and Malcolm, it meant they weren't going to be reaired at all.. Alias would be on sometime, but unless you knew specifically when and set your DVR, the guide wouldn't reflect the change and record...

huge difference.

[oz]

I noticed that they didn't cut into the Simpsons half-hour slot during any commercial breaks – only during the show. Give me a break. I know you've wasted millions of dollars on a weather system that's wrong half the time, but USE IT WISELY!

And to devote 90+ minutes to showing a computerized weather map in an attempt to scare the hell out of people – that was STUPID! During the "tornado warning" in Waukesha, people in my nationhood were outside looking at the sky, while the talking heads screamed "take cover immediately!"

[akitakoi]

^I noticed that too, they played the comercials and just cut into the show.


I was watching extreme makeover home edition, missed most of the unvailing. Put on channel 7 out of Chicago, untill they did the same thing.
If I wanted to know about the weather I could have looked out the window or tuned to the weather station.

[mrmike]

Originally posted by akitakoi
^I noticed that too, they played the comercials and just cut into the show.

Of course, make-good's on commercial time cost money.  Pissing off your consumers is rarely a blip on the radar because most of them are sheep and will be baaaaack next week.

[kjnorman]

I notice that Crispin has a piece in the piece in the Journel Sentinal today on this as well.

Kerry