Blizzard of 07

[RonH]

I have 25 people coming over to specifically watch the UW v OSU game in HD.  They are going to be disappointed if it is changed to SD and mini-sized, might as well get out my 19"er from the basement in that case.

When do we have to start calling CBS58 to make them drop the weather crap prior to 3pm?

[jeffski]

In my opinion, all this weather hype gets blown way out of proportion. It's Wisconsin, it snows, deal with it. If I would watch ONE newscast that didn't have the words BREAKING NEWS,  THAT would be breaking news.:bang:



GO BADGERS!!!!!!!!!!


added note: If fox 6 could go thru one WHOLE newscast without referring to or covering American Idiot...er Idol ....that TRULY would be breaking news.

American Idiot : Junk television has reached it's low point


btw, this isn't even news...yet people continue to watch the garbage

[techguy1975]

In my opinion, all this weather hype gets blown way out of proportion. It's Wisconsin, it snows, deal with it. If I would watch ONE newscast that didn't have the words BREAKING NEWS,  THAT would be breaking news.:bang:

You're right...this is Wisconsin, it does snow here, but it is rare we get up to 20" in one weekend.  Now, yes it looks like that is not going to happen after all, but for awhile it looked pretty bad.  I would say that qualified as breaking news.

[Tom Snyder]

I feel bad for the local weather guys... they looked like they had their Armageddon... an actual BLIZZARD warning from the NWS. It was so bad, so ominous, and so immient that Portia Young at channel 12 yesterday actually admitted that "This time we MEAN it!."

[Bigdog]

Along those lines, how well does, satellite  tv work in snow storms like these? Do you lose signal and have to go out and clear off the dish?

[Matt Heebner]

Didnt lose Directv signal all weekend. Also didnt have to brush off the dish. Sometimes I have needed to but not in the last few years. As a matter of fact, I can only remember losing signal last summer for about 3 min. while a major thunderstorm rolled through.....

[digdugm]

^^^dido (this is the rest of my 10 characters)

[kjnorman]

My satellite feed did not break up (at least on anything that we would record), but strangely our OTA feed did break up.  I though OTA was supposed to be immune to rain/snow?

[Mark Strube]

I though OTA was supposed to be immune to rain/snow?

Not if it's going through a lot of trees that get blown in the wind or saturated with water/snow. Also, the towers can have plenty of their own issues in bad weather. There have been some occasions where OTA was unavailable due to a tower outage, while you could still get the channel from cable thanks to their fiber link.