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Originally Posted by EchoWars
Your post is a non-sequitur to me. Emergency? No AC power? Grab the damn portable radio. TV isn't the only source for information in a crisis.
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As has been mentioned before, not an option in many cases. Locally there have been blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, 10-car pile-ups on the highway, floods...turn on the radio and listen to the music because none of the local stations have a real news department and many are fully automated so that there is nobody to read a special announcement. Last year I had a tornado (a very small tornado) come right down the street where I work. I had no idea it might happen-there were 2 radios on in the shop and neither said a word, before or after. The guy who works down the street in a warehouse (which was nearly blown down by the twister) had gone home. Why? His wife was home watching the local news, yep, on good old analog, and called to warn him.
Different, perhaps, in the city where there are news/talk stations and such. The old-style community broadcasters are gone for the most part.