Re: Station Disaster Programming - Florida Firestorm

["Shel Swartz" <shel@lotsofun.com>]

>As the nation is aware, we're having a big problem with wildfires.
>Here in Jacksonville, our leading news=talk station WOKV 690 (former
>WAPE - 690) became a great fountain of information concerning
>evacuations, fire locations, highway closures etc... even giving
>information to those in Volusia, Flagler counties and St. Augustine and
>Palatka as well. They're the only station on AM here in Jacksonville
>that can reach clear down to North Palm Beach with thier 50kw NDA stick.
>When things were getting crazy, they even pre-empted Rush Limbaugh. WOKV
>has come a long way from being mostly an all-bird to a great source of
>local/regional news and talk. My hat's off to them.

Sorry, but you can't receive WOKV much-further south than Orlando during the
day.  At night, they're lucky to get outside of Jax.

:) shel
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