RE: Conalrad

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@bbnplanet.com>]

I remember that in the 80s when we had hurricane warnings up,
that one of the music stations shifted to news and information
for 30 minutes out of the hour until it was past, then billed
itself as the "hurricane information station".  Wish I remember
what the call was...

- -Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Shel
> Swartz
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:18 PM
> To: John Bolduc; boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Conalrad
>
>
> >I understand that in New Hampshire this past Wednesday, the EAS was test
> >was not run because the the who was responsible for intitiating the test
> >had dozed off. Does anyone have info on this.
> >
> >John
>
>
> This reminds me of a question I've always wanted to ask.   It
> seems that the
> highest-rated stations, on the whole, are music stations.  These same
> stations tend to run news content only during AM Drive, and if they could
> get away with it,  there would be nothing but music.  So I ask this group:
>
> In the even of a natonal emergency, how much credibility would music
> stations have?  And do you think that even if they had news of an
> emergency-type to report, would the stations' listeners switch to a
> news-talker, as a matter of credibility?
>
> :) shel
>
>

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