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The second transmitter is probably irrelevant, especially since WICD is pretty much a total satellite of WICS now with no original content other than ids and maybe some ads. The "Code Red" is just worthless fear-mongering, that worsens the relationship between the viewer and the meteorologists. It puts an undue burden on the meteorologists to hype up a weather event that may not live up to its potential harm, and can make the viewer less-trusting of them when it fizzles out or isn't the "eye candy" that it was hyped up to be. And in the era of pissed-off viewers venting on stations for cutting into their programming, it only makes it worse when they have to. I'm just waiting for Boris to chime in on this, bonus points if he brings up the "terrorism alerts" that were used during the 9/11 era.... Here's the bottom line (see what I did there?) JUST LET THE METEOROLOGISTS DO THEIR JOB!!! They know the weather (at least the good ones do), and work in the best interest of their viewers to provide usable forecasts and potentially life-saving information. While it's not technically required, most stations that can put out a forecast will be on-air covering a life-threatening weather event for the affected viewers, or at the very least, have the warning up on the screen through maps, graphics, or at the very least, and EAS alert.

My gosh, that WRAL site is really good... http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/news-people-action-news-people-image-promo-from-1978/?from=533 WRAL's "News People" promo A December 1978 newscast with a teletype sound open: http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wral-action-news-5-newscast-dec-12-1978/?from=225 http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/bloopers-with-bobbie-battista-and-charlie-gaddy-circa-1979/?from=225 This blooper reel has the ticker bed once used by WBMG... http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/premiere-of-the-hour-long-action-news-5-newscast-at-6pm/?from=225 First hour-long 6pm Action News 5 (1982) http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/action-news-5-promo-image-promo-1982/?from=533 From the same year, an image promo "Get the action live on Action News 5" http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/action-news-5-600-pm-newscast-january-7-1985/?from=225 Can't say I've seen this particular theme mix before (January 1985) http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/sky-5-the-place-to-be-promo/?from=533 Mid-80s chopper promo using VTS The Place to Be http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/we-mean-a-lot-to-each-other-image-promo/?from=533 "We Mean a Lot to Each Other" song, produced for WRAL by VTS and sung by Lee Greenwood and Roberta Flack. Unlike a lot of VTS work, this was recorded in LA. http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wral-news-coverage-of-switch-to-cbs/?from=225 Charlie Gaddy explains the CBS affiliation switch to viewers http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/media-assets/wraz-50-goes-on-the-air/?from=225 A news story ahead of the launch of WRAZ in 1995

Mind blown. How could the FCC have thought that way back in the day, especially since denying people the access to life-saving information slaps in the face of a station operating in the public interest! Then again, this was the days before doppler radar, computer satellite imagery, and even qualified meteorologists at the local level in many places. I remember the days when all you would see on the screen would be the "W" graphic...then came the weather icon graphics with "WATCH" and "WARNING", and later, the county maps with the appropriate watches or warnings in different colors. And eventually, the "polygons" began to focus on affected areas within and encompassing counties. Plus, even in the era before VCRs, DVRs and on-demand television, if a show was pre-empted, you were truly SOL.

Almost all stations have a switcher that isn't sufficient to have every feed coming into the building available on it. A small market may only have a handful of sources, but probably has a small switcher. A large market station may have a hundred sources but a switcher that only supports 50. Most stations I've seen rely on having a block of switcher inputs (I'd say on average 10) designated for remote sources (which can be satellite feeds, microwave, bonded cellular, and in some cases infrequently used hookups within the building itself) that are fed from the facility's router, and usually these run through framesyncs to ensure they're synchronized with the switcher. Since KGO was in the middle of a show, they would already have had the remote shots they were using routed in. It's possible that they already had CNN Newsource routed to the switcher for something else that was being fed on it (Newsource fed a murder trial verdict from Southern California less than an hour prior to the crash, at the time of the crash, Newsource was offering two feeds from a House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the Mueller report). It's possible NewsOne was feeding something else and couldn't feed WABC immediately, or in a rush to get on-air, WABC wasn't feeding NewsOne. My guess is a producer, either in the booth or in the newsroom, saw the alert come down from CNN first, and at that point their priority was to get Newsource on the air because they knew that this was being covered on it.

At the time WABC may not have been feeding CNN or uplinking the feeds yet to ABC News One. We’re they taking a simulcast or just footage? ABC and CBS subscribe to CNN NewSource so they can take anything they want that isn’t embargoed - even if it’s a competitor station. Say KGO has footage from a car chase from KABC but KCBS has a better angle/PQ they can take that.

Hey, here's an old ABC 7 News, This Morning talent bump from '99! Took years to find this but there ya go!

WABC also is broadcasting live, why not use their own sister station?????? Note the only NYC station that is not covering this live is WNYW FOX5. CBS2, NBC4, ABC7 and PIX11 are all live. I guess Fox values Dish Nation higher than breaking news.

24994J, I'm OBSESSED with your new avatar. That is all. Thank you.