Jess 1110 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I know there's a thread in the New York forum discussing the coverage, but given that the entire Boston-Washington megalopolis area will be affected by this, I figure one in General TV made more sense. So, essentially, we're getting a monster storm (I am not calling this Frankenstorm) that will merge with a nor'easter to create one massive superstorm - which some are comparing to the 1991 Perfect Storm. And the track? Well, it basically takes the thing directly over the Mid-Atlantic. Specifically, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Obviously, Sandy has been the major news story of the last few days here in Philly, and the stations are covering it accordingly. Sandy dominated every newscast here, and the coverage is what you'd expect from most stations. The best coverage? Well, obviously it's Delaware Valley's Leading News Program - which is what I am calling NBC 10 these days. Under new GM Eric Lerner and new ND Anzio Williams, NBC 10 has taken a direction that I haven't seen in local news - at least in a lonnnnng time. They've scrapped the fluffy segments, cut down on the use of graphical stings, and they've even eliminated in-newscast sponsorship plugs. Instead, they've made live reporting the centerpiece of the product. Not only do they have more people on the ground than even 6, they're emphasizing the reporters in their stories. Some seem to be given roles - Lu Ann Cahn has become their bulldog crime/court reporter, Rosemary Connors has been sent to pretty much every political event this year, Tim Furlong is the sunny lead reporter in mornings. They also now own breaking news stories. Previously, they were last to break in, and first to leave. Nowadays they'll break in before anybody else, they'll leave after everybody else, and in between they'll hand everyone else's ass to them. Which is basically what they're doing with this hurricane. While Sandy certainly comprised the bulk of yesterday's newscasts on all stations, NBC 10 was almost all Sandy. There were just reporters from basically everywhere. Aditi Roy down the shore. Doug Shimell in Delaware. Katy Zachry outside City Hall. Cydney Long in Ventnor, Lu Ann Cahn doing a story about potential effects on the Schuylkill Expressway. They checked in with Cantore. Oh, and Glenn Hurricane Schwartz was basically the third anchor for most of last night's newscasts. And they ran the 7pm on 10.1. Today was much the same - they broke in frequently, and ran a full 4-6:30 news block anchored by Denise Nakano and Dawn Timmeney. Interestingly, their coverage came from the former 10 show studio. Lots of reporters again - including sports anchor John Clark. Despite the fact that they have reporters all over the damn place, they've called in reinforcements! Ray Villeda is headed here from KXAS, while Julia Bagg from WTVJ is stationed in AC. I don't know when they'll start wall to wall, but it'll be sometime tomorrow (and even then it looks like NBC's making them take football on the main channel). No other station here has really come close to 10's level of coverage, though in fairness WPVI and KYW were stuck with college football and WTXF has to endure the World Series. Still, none of the other stations have dedicated themselves to this story as fully as NBC 10 has. 3 has Chris May and Kathy Orr in for their newscasts, but they could have done a bit more since they have Philly 57. 6 has the usual weekend team in (they're giving Cecily Tynan and Adam Joseph a day to rest - and then they'll be on the air for at least 72 hours), If you want to watch it, it's here, but the link will 404 unless they have a stream going. Basically check nbc10.com or their facebook and twitter - you will know when they're streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad 276 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Believe it or not, the stations here in New York haven't been on as much I expect that they'll be on throughout the day tomorrow with updates and probably remain on the air as the storm inches closer and closer to the area. I posted a topic in the New York forum in regards to this, but its not as active, it might as well be put here since it is a national event with several news stations in the country covering this potentially historical situation. This Sandy/Nor'easter Hybrid is the "perfect storm" that never happened essentially. That is happening now, 21 years later. The storm surge predicted here in Long Island where I am, will be of epic proportions, it will be something that a lot of us young folks haven't seen before in recent history. I've never seen it. As you mentioned HulkieD in 1991 we had the perfect storm, but it was concentrated out in the sea. n fact the storm is essentially going to transition itself to a "cold-core" storm and lose all of its tropical characteristics. Its funny the newly forming storm will actually stronger than the Hurricane that it is right now. So this is an epic situation on all levels, likely to be worse than Irene. The storm is expected to make Landfall at around Monday night at around 11:00pm into early Tuesday morning. And that is when the worst of it will occur. But of course most of us will have already felt the storm long before the center reaches here as the storm is expected to begin at around 5 am to 7 am Monday Morning in the Tri-State Area. Its not necessary the rain that will be the biggest impact, its the wind and more importantly how long this is all scheduled to last... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1812 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Shameless self-promotion alert!!! As the thing at the very top of the page says, our project TVNewsStreams has a lot of links to news streams in the area. If people find any more, please share! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5280 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 WABC's continuing to use the monitor backdrop for other purposes...there are even subtle flashes of lightning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceManNYR 223 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Here are links to live coverage from the NYC stations, WABC http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=8857235 (WABC is HD though their web video is 4:3) WCBS http://newyork.cbslocal.com/live-video/ WNBC http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Hurricane-Sandy-Track-Forecast-Coast-Flooding-New-York-New-Jersey--176096091.html WNYW http://www.myfoxny.com/category/237033/live-video-on-myfoxny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronQ 260 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Streams from Hartford, CT WVIT:http://www.ustream.t...nbc-connecticut WFSB:http://www.wfsb.com/...ws-livestream-1 WTIC/WCCT:http://www.ctnow.com...ews-Live-Stream WTNH:http://www.wtnh.com/...o/watch_us_live Streams from Boston, MA WHDH:http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive WBZ:http://boston.cbslocal.com/live-video/ WFXT:http://www.myfoxbost...ve-video-stream WCVB:http://livewire.wcvb...tts_New_England Streams from Providence, RI WPRI:http://www.wpri.com/...age-live-stream WJAR:http://www2.turnto10...ews/live_video/ (You will need Windows Media Player plugin in order to watch this stream) Streams from Norfolk, VA WAVY:http://www.wavy.com/...y-live-coverage WVEC:http://www.wvec.com/...Live-Video.html Streams from Baltimore, MD WBFF:http://www.foxbaltim.../newsroom/live/ WBAL:http://www.wbaltv.co...io/-/index.html Streams from Washington D.C WJLA:http://www.wjla.com/live/ WRC:http://www.nbcwashin...-175766311.html WTTG:http://www.myfoxdc.c.../live-newscasts NewsChannel 8:http://www.wjla.com/.../newschannel-8/ Streams from Portland, ME WCSH:http://www.wcsh6.com...ews_center.aspx WMTW:http://livewire.wmtw.../Tracking_Sandy WGME:http://www.wgme.com/.../features/live/ Streams from Albany, NY WRGB:http://cbs6albany.co.../features/live/ WTEN:http://www.news10.co...-streaming-live WNYT:http://wnyt.com/article/10469/ Stream from Salisbury, MD WBOC:http://www.wboc.com/...g-wboc-newscast Stream from Manchester, NH WMUR:http://www.wmur.com/weather/Watch-Live-WMUR-News-9/-/9859398/17186318/-/6cqmqnz/-/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 First, the streams from Philly: WCAU: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/NBC10-News-Newscast-Live-158473335.html WPVI: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/livenow?id=7129670 KYW: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/live-video/ WTXF: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/category/242043/breaking-news-video?clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass WCAU is the first station to go continuous. Coverage began at 2:30 and has lasted since. Since NBC presumably wants football airing in the #4 market, 10's coverage moved to 10.2 at 6:30. You can stream it online, which probably is better than watching it on the subchannel. (Though it was offline when I wrote this.) Their coverage has been exemplary. The other stations have not gone wall to wall. WPVI was taking the press conferences this afternoon, but didn't go continuous. They blew out World News in order to go a full hour. Tonight they're doing their normal PHL 17 10pm and an hour at 11, bumping off Eagles Football Frenzy. (Not that the game was worth discussing anyway.) KYW has been running most of its coverage over on WPSG-57. They did 90 minutes from 6 to 7:30 over there, and they're on with their CW newscast. They are doing at least one hour on CW, and since CBS Prime is going to 11:35/11:40, I would bet on them staying on until they can get over to CBS. WTXF, well... they've been doing what they can. Game Day Live was a hybrid Eagles preview/Sandy coverage newscast. They stuck in an extended report somewhere, but they're unfortunately stuck with the World Series. They'll do an hour after that, but their real coverage gets going All four stations look like they'll be going on the air at 4am. WTXF explicitly stated they were going continuous from that point; the others probably will. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if 10 was still on the air at that point. They are clearly in "cots in the newsroom" mode here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 10 will be on the air for the duration so that means at least til late Tuesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronQ 260 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 World Series is over and let see Fox 29's coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceManNYR 223 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Excluding FOX5 who started the newscast after the World Series, the NYC stations stopped coverage at 12am and most are going to resume at 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1343 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 10 will be on the air for the duration so that means at least til late Tuesday Wow. That's rather awesome. Nice way to make the competition look lazy, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 760 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Here's a stream from CityNews Channel in Toronto: http://www.citytv.co...ideo/liveplayer The track of the storm will eventually affect the eastern Canadian proviinces, including the Toronto area, this is the only station in that area that has a live stream (that I know of). As I'm writing this, the morning program Breakfast Television (which is simulcast on CityNews Channel from the channel's parent Citytv) is providing some coverage of Sandy, ahead of the storm's expected track into Southeastern Ontario on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1343 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 All four of the major Boston stations (WBZ, WCVB, WHDH, and WFXT) have had continuous since at least noon (which is when I turned the TV on). I imagine they were on all morning, too. WBZ bumped CBS programming to WSBK and WCVB bumped ABC programming to 5.2. I wonder where WHDH is putting NBC programming (both WLVI and ThisTV have their regular programming). Meanwhile, WMUR went back to regular ABC programming at 1:00pm, but it wouldn't surprise me if they resume coverage earlier than the usual 5:00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronQ 260 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 For those who have Directv, Directv have once again provided local coverage from Sandy on channels 325 and 349 https://www.facebook.com/directv/posts/452617131447821 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 760 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Here are links to live coverage from the NYC stations, WABC http://abclocal.go.c...enow?id=8857235 (WABC is HD though their web video is 4:3) WCBS http://newyork.cbslo...com/live-video/ WNBC http://www.nbcnewyor...-176096091.html WNYW http://www.myfoxny.c...ideo-on-myfoxny Adding to that, here's a stream from WPIX: http://www.wpix.com/...estream5pmnews/ Don't let the fact that it has "5pmnews" in the domain name fool you, this link works for other regular live newscasts (and is useable for the Sandy coverage) as well. WPIX has recently switched to the JWPlayer (different from the streaming players used by Tribune's other stations), which does not come with volume controls, making monitoring different live streams from various stations in the storm's path a little difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1343 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 WFXT's morning news anchors, Gene Lavanchy and Shannon Mulaire, handed off to Mark Ockerbloom and Maria Stephanos. The morning team's coverage over the previous ten hours was recapped with a video montage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Wow. That's rather awesome. Nice way to make the competition look lazy, too. Keep in mind that before that, they had a 4-6:30 news block on Saturday when the other stations couldn't, and they were actually wall to wall starting at 2:30pm yesterday afternoon. They moved to 10.2 when 10.1 cut for Nightly News, and simulcast on there for the duration of the football game. Everyone else started continuous at 4am. Yeah, 10 is making the competition look lazy. I'm saying that about a lot of things lately. (Seriously, watch their stream.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammy9 26 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 WUSA's live stream on Sandy. http://www.wusa9.com/video/breakingvideo.aspx This is not going to be fun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Horn 78 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 This can't be overstated. WCAU is executing some of the best natural disaster coverage we've seen in years. Seriously. Also, Terry Ruggles. God, he's the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderJay27 27 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 This can't be overstated. WCAU is executing some of the best natural disaster coverage we've seen in years. Seriously. Also, Terry Ruggles. God, he's the truth. Could you imagine what they would do if they had their own radar and live network? This has been the best I've seen 10 at in a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Could you imagine what they would do if they had their own radar and live network? This has been the best I've seen 10 at in a very long time. They have their own radar. It's based in Mt. Holly. They just don't whore it out like 3 and 6 do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5280 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 As someone on the outside looking in, relying solely on Chicago programming and online streaming, I've mainly been watching WABC (well-done as always), but I have been very impressed by WCAU. I tried watching some of WPVI, but I couldn't take it...something about it is bugging me. On the Chicago side, WMAQ has done something awesome - they have live radar on their window/monitor wall behind the anchors...in all it's full-color HD glory. :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 On the Chicago side, WMAQ has done something awesome - they have live radar on their window/monitor wall behind the anchors...in all it's full-color HD glory. :drool: That's actually pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderJay27 27 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 They have their own radar. It's based in Mt. Holly. They just don't whore it out like 3 and 6 do. But is it live and have all the features 3 & 6 have? I thought that it was a radar used by NWS and updated every 3+ minutes, whereas they used to have LD 10,000 that updated every minute on scan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 But is it live and have all the features 3 & 6 have? I thought that it was a radar used by NWS and updated every 3+ minutes, whereas they used to have LD 10,000 that updated every minute on scan? Yeah, and even more than them. They picked it up when they switched to TruVu Max last summer. 6 uses TruVu Max for everything but radar. They use a Barons system for that and 3 is still using Titan which is pretty dated these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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