Does the government prevent the on-air radio people from hearing the weather alerts?

People in a studio are isolated (understandably) from extraneous noise. Some emergency broadcasts are achieved through the on air broadcasters being handed bulletins to read aloud over the air, but there are also alerts transmitted automatically through seizing the bandwidth over which the station normally broadcasts in order to save time. Those in the isolated sound proof studio would have no idea that this is happening unless someone listening on a radio rushes in with the news.

^^^Right. It isn’t a conspiracy.

@stanleybmanly That sounds like an excuse, if that is the reasoning they are giving. Would you post your source?
@Dutchess_III I didn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. The people working at all the radio stations, are part of the audience members. The alert affects them too. Why would they be prevented from the info????

In addition to what @stanleybmanly said, you’re probably listening to a program recorded in the past or earlier that day.

@DoNotKnow Please read my response. It doesn’t matter if it’s a rerun or not.

If it was recorded earlier, then there are no humans in the control room to not hear the warning.

@flo – Not only could it be a rerun, but these programs are recorded in one state and often broadcast nationally.

I’m not even sure what your question is here or what you’re getting at. NPR and radio in general is not a source for weather alerts. You get them delivered right to you on your phone from the national weather service. It would be inappropriate for old media like this to be suddenly broadcasting redundant regional weather alerts. If I was listening to NPR and we had an interruption to tell me about a flood alert 3000 miles away last week, I’d be furious. It would speed up the process of old media’s death.

@flo do you understand that NPR is ( National Public Radio ) ? ?
The operative is NATIONAL. The studio is not an omniscient and omnipresent place. They may be located in NYC and the flood warnings were for mountain streams and rivers in California.

@flo I don’t think you fully understand what I’m saying. The government is NOT withholding information from those in the studio. ANYONE with a receiver, including those inside the sound proof booth can pick up the transmission. The problem is that you will NEVER find a radio in one of those rooms because in addition to the problem of extraneous noise, tuning the radio to the broadcast emanating from the studio results in a “feedback loop” of distortion. This phenomenon is the reason why when you call in to an on the air talk show, the first words from the other end of the phone are “turn down your radio.”

NPR is, by and large, a collection of previously recorded programming. Even if the programming is live, there’s no telling where if is broadcast from. I was listening to an NRP station in Missouri last week and the news was playing from Australia. I often hear news from the BBC, but I think that’s on a local station broadcast out of a guy’s basement in a nearby town. Good radio always makes you feel like you’re listening live.

Have you heard “The Car Guys” on NPR? They quit recording original programming years ago. One of the brothers had Alzheimer’s disease, then died within the past year. The surviving brother had a hilarious, moving, tribute show.

Pretty much all radio programming is recorded, and a lot of it’s re-broadcast at some point. The broadcasters wouldn’t want holes where the weather service broke in, so TWS just over-rides whatever is being broadcast.

When you listen to National Broadcasts they are either pre-recorded, or they are being broadcast from a city on the other side of the country. The broadcasters, if it IS a live broadcast, can’t hear your local weather or news because it isn’t in their local feed. I listen to NPR all the time, on Friday nights there is a show called Science Friday. It is usually live and being sent out nationally from a studio in New York City. If you are listening to that in a small town on the Texas panhandle and your weather report is saying you are under a Tornado warning, that weather report and local news is being broadcast from the station you are listening on and, Ira, the host of Science Friday, doesn’t hear it because he is sitting in a studio in New York City. Does that make sense? Ira is going to keep going with his interviews and questions and segments of his show because it is being broadcast over the entire nation. He also doesn’t hear any of the ads or local fund drives. When they broadcast, they break for a standard number of minutes so that all the local stations, be they in Colorado, or Southern California or up in Maine, can do their weather and news reports and local identification… like ‘You are listening to Science Friday on WKTB, serving the greater Boulder Colorado area.’ But Ira is sitting in New York City and those 6 minutes of news and weather reporting you just heard at the top of the hour, he has NO idea, he just knows that he had a 6 minute break where he could drink some water and go to the toilet.

You’re are helping me make my point.

@flo: “You’re are helping me make my point.”

Which was…......?

I thought your point was that the government was trying to prevent the on-air people from hearing warnings and such. Or did I miss it?

It’s a conspiracy, the don’t want people in the studio to know that .01 % of all the people somewhere in the whole USA have a flood warning ~ ~ ~ ~ JK

My point is that it makes no sense, it is messed up that they wouldn’t know what is going on on.

They are not in the booth broadcasting when the alert goes out. The show has been pre-recorded. They are on the outside, hanging out, doing whatever they do, probably listening to the radio station they work at, so they get the alerts just like everyone else.

@flo: “My point is that it makes no sense, it is messed up that they wouldn’t know what is going on on.”

Re-read the responses. You’ll find that what we have all said is that it makes perfect sense, there is no “they” to not “know what is going on”.

To summarize in a way that should be nearly impossible to get confused by…

Take “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross. She records an interview with Louis CK on say April 25th. Louis CK is in a remote studio in NY speaking to Terry, who is in Philidelphia (?). Anyway, she records this interview, and an edited version of it is broadcast on April 28th on local NPR stations across the country. On April 29th, it arrives on my phone. On April 30th, I decide to listen to it on my commute. On May 15th, it plays as a rerun. And on July 30th, my friend listens to it on his commute.

Where does local weather fit into any of this? Not only is it completely irrelevant to the content of the programming – it would be of use to nobody and would make as much sense as interrupting the Louis CK interview to explain that there is a disabled vehicle Oak St in Amherst, MA.

@flo the guys in New York don’t care about your local weather. NPR does have a national news feed, so unless your local mess is big enough to make national news, they don’t hear about and don’t give a shit. (I should know better than try to explain things to flo… it’s just frustrating.)

Okay then, that clarifies things.

…Not.

Obama

This is equivalent to asking why the singers on the radio don’t stop singing when there is a weather alert.

I just missed my favorite part of a Johnny Cash song on the radio due to a severe weather alert. Couldn’t he have just waited until the alert was over??

Flo..could you restate the question, then, please? And could you send a source that claims ”And if it’s not a fact then why are the radio people saying that they don’t hear it?”

Thank you all. I got the answer.