Brian, Iowa Voic [1]e, has a story of some Broward County, Florida politicians who when given a choice between their emergency broadcasts, i.e. hurricane information, being heard on the area’s broadcast leader, or some other weaker station, opted for the weaker station, so they would not have heard of the same station as Rush Limbaugh [2]:
Can you imagine the outrage and the uproar if this were a Republican area and they refused to air hurricane information on a station that had Air America on it, simply because of the political differences? Yeah, it would be deafening…and rightfully so.
The dummycrats do not seem to realize that their emergency broadcasts would actuallly pre-empt Limbaugh. Then that is why they are lefttards.
H/T: Sister Toldjah [3].
Addendum: Bithead
Perhaps this story would be of greater value to omse of our readers to understand just what a difference in coverage between the two stations, we’re talking about.
WICO, [4] the station they want to move the emergency messages to, runs 1000 watts days into a non-directional antenna. They’re restricted to a total of only 28 watts at night. Which, on the ‘gravewayd’ channel of 1320khz, means they can get perhaps a few blocks away from the transmitter before the signal is seriously degraded.
Meanwhile, WIOD, [5] runs 5000 watts into a two-tower (only slightly directional) array, using the same radiation pattern both day and night. To give you an idea of how large a service area we’re dealing with, consider WBEN/930 in Buffalo, which runs similar power and directionality. They easily cover the city of Buffalo.
(The links on the station callsigns are actually links to the FCC’s database… examine the data for yourself.)
In short, WIOD’s coverage at it’s worst point, is far more effective than WICO’s coverage at it’s BEST point.
So, let’s say they have need in Broward to sound the alarm at night; Very very few people will be covered by the station that they want to move the emergency signals to. Many people would die as a direct result.
Well, look, we’ve already established that the left is willing to kill people off for the political purposes of saving a few miserable gallons of gasoline, via CAFE. What’s a few thousand more people when you can deal out political punishments to Rush Limbaugh?
Others Blogging this one: NewsBusters.org [6], Wizbang [7], Moonbattery [8], Macsmind [9], Iowa Voice [1], JammieWearingFool [10], The American Mind [11]