WLKY-TV 1995: Good To The Last Drop never ending severe weather coverage

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From 1995...the severe weather coverage that would not end brought to us by "32 For You". Long after the other stations had resumed regular programming, the tireless anchors, reporters, and weathermen at WLKY-TV in Louisville, KY hammered on with a round robin of reports that made no sense at all. They threw it to the riverfront where the sun was shining, they went to the newsroom not once, but twice to find out that "lightning was dangerous" and to be told that "there is a road closed". Wow, thanks for those breaking updates. In this last 7 minutes of coverage, there was no new information, and the meteorologist even tried to tell the news folks that the threat was over, but they weren't listening...we had to be reminded not once, but several times by the anchorwoman that they would "stay on the air until every warning had expired". I am somewhat certain that the folks at the weather service may have cancelled the warnings early just to get them to go back to network programming. This is an example of "weather overkill" and should be a textbook study case for all of those gung ho assignment editors and news producers/directors that think that being the last one to sign off is a good thing. Don't do it. Don't make yourself the laughing stock of the market. This particular station did an admirable job of providing the public with critical information during the height of the storms, but the last 6 or 7 minutes that I have posted here helped make that be easily forgotten. Anchors Rick Vanhoose and Vicki Dortch and meteorologist Kevan Ramer don't have anything new to say, and poor Liz Everman in the newsroom is reduced to almost begging for someone, anyone to rescue her from the misery of this torture. Rule of thumb for those in TV land...if you have nothing intelligent to say, go back to regular programming.

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Uploaded: November 26th, 2007 @ 10:06 pm
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