Hurricane Matthew coverage/contingency

[bixpchiphead 105]

How many stations can route an ENG( live truck) receive site directly into the station transmitter? How many stations have bad-assed engineers that can pull that off in an emergency?

 

95% can't or don't know they can...or how to do it.

Do mid-west stations do this ever?

 

A simple a/v switch with a is all it takes. Nobody remembers simple procedures anymore.

 

Not quite a weather event, but in 1980 the James Hoskins hostage situation at WCPO in Cincinnati,

 

"Channel 9 viewers awoke that morning to evening anchorman Al Schottelkotte reporting from the parking lot via a mobile TV truck owned by Dayton’s WHIO-TV, a fellow CBS affiliate then.

 

At 1:45 p.m., nearly 12 hours later, police finally entered the station and found Hoskins dead on the newsroom floor from a self-inflicted gunshot."

[Eat News 4745]

Not quite a weather event, but in 1980 the James Hoskins hostage situation at WCPO in Cincinnati,

 

"Channel 9 viewers awoke that morning to evening anchorman Al Schottelkotte reporting from the parking lot via a mobile TV truck owned by Dayton’s WHIO-TV, a fellow CBS affiliate then.

 

At 1:45 p.m., nearly 12 hours later, police finally entered the station and found Hoskins dead on the newsroom floor from a self-inflicted gunshot."

 

Perfect example.

[Weeters 1915]

WVEC posted a story about their backup studio at their old building/transmitter and their annual "Hurricane Test".

 

www.13newsnow.com/entertainment/television/13news-nows-backup-hurricane-facility/334947537

 

Seems like they should do that before hurricane season...