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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 01:01 am |
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| Here starts another year of this beep beep %$#^&. Bring back the well known Tornado Warning tone. The beep beep *^() is used at other "proactive stations" for a Watch not warning. Another example of executives with " used car salesmen" mentality. It worked for 40 years and they change it for the sake of change. Thank goodness they still cover as well as they do. But what about Texas Howell and Dent counties you reach 'clear' down there.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 03:09 am |
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| Thirty some years ago, I got pretty good at imitating the KTTS Tornado tone. Wonder if it was ever copyrighted!
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DB
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 03:54 pm |
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| I hope before that weather on April 8-10 gets here and todays afternoon storms KTTS get off their corporate inept butts and gets the real Tornado Warning tone working. Guess if I want anything done I will call Jerico he will get ur done.
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techpuppy
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 09:03 pm |
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DB wrote: But what about Texas Howell and Dent counties you reach 'clear' down there.
Might I be so tacky as to suggest that their Midland weather radio doesn't pick up warnings for those counties since the Texas, Howell, Dent county area now has it's own weather radio stations? Yep, I'm that tacky.
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 09:39 pm |
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| But most over the road drivers or folks from Springfield do not know the local stations listen to KTXR or KTTS because it comes in good. I was in Licking and hear them just fine. Just did not know I was in a warning. So they should keep up with where they can be heard they should be warned.
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techpuppy
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 10:17 pm |
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DB wrote: But most over the road drivers or folks from Springfield do not know the local stations listen to KTXR or KTTS because it comes in good. I was in Licking and hear them just fine. Just did not know I was in a warning. So they should keep up with where they can be heard they should be warned.
You're absolutely right. Not to mention that in the last round of severe weather not even all of the local stations bothered to make any announcements. KTTS used to be the place I turned for weather information and news. I didn't even know they were ignoring our county at first and as a result didn't know about some warnings.
I wrote a long article last year about how so many stations had "moved" to Springfield and all maximized their power which precludes many local towns and rural areas from having stations. The result is that many areas do not have any stations to turn to for current weather information, watches, warnings, or other emergency information. A lot of it can be blamed on media consolidation where the group owners want to maximize their potential audience. As far as public service and community involvement goes, most towns were better off with local ownership and operations.
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 10:19 pm |
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| The KTTS Tornado warning tone you guys mention was put together by Don Paul, our PD, just by acident one day when he was fooling around in the recording studio. It certainly had a distinct sound didn't it. I liked it. I'm sure no other station had that same sound and would doubt if anyone still has a copy of it. I agree, it beats the tiny beep...beeps they now use. Also, we always treated Warsaw, Harrison, Lebanon, Joplin as they were local during severe weather times...like we were "their local station". Right or wrong, it worked like a charm.
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techpuppy
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Posted: Fri Apr 4th, 2008 06:01 pm |
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I always wondered how the tone came about. I had just assumed that it was created for the station by some production company. It really was an attention-getter. Even people who weren't country music fans would tune in for a few minutes if the weather looked bad just to see if they heard the tone.
Wouldn't it make a great cell phone ring tone??
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Posted: Fri Apr 4th, 2008 06:40 pm |
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Now there is a way to make money. The "old" sounds of KTTS ringtones.
Everything was great for 40 years and you wonder why they have trouble keeping "execs" that can not make the bottom line. Perhaps they should reconsider the past.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11th, 2008 04:32 am |
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| One more thing. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed we do not give out counties on a Watch? Just counties north of I-44 are in a watch or the counties east of 65 highway? Is this not important Seems kinda lazy not to break down the counties and give radar. Or am I just too old?
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