got weather?

[Donna Halper]

>Steve wrote--
>I think it comes back to a thread on this board when Princess Diana 
>died...how does a station justify the cost of keeping a news dept. staffed 
>24/7/365 just to "be there" for these events that happen only a handful of 
>times a year?

Well, if they have positioned themselves as "news/talk", don't they have an 
obligation to have somebody on call, even via a remote hookup of some 
kind?  Technology these days makes it easier to have somebody reporting 
from the comfort of their home...