KTRH is Houston’s only 50KW News Talk radio station.
It is the station the city relies on during emergencies. No other radio station comes close.
Edouardo is a tropical storm churning less than 400 miles away in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
It came to life in the same spot that another storm, Alicia did in 1983. No one expected that one to do much but it did.
Houstonians don’t fool around when it comes to Gulf storms. They understand the danger.
A state of emergency exists in Galveston in preparation for the storm as I write this.
Something has happened to Houston’s great news station. During storms past they would be going full blast covering the storm from every angle.
The mission was always to make sure the population was throughly prepared.
But not this time.
This afternoon Sean Hannity is nattering on about Barrack Obama as he always does. Same old daily dose of partisan politics.
KTRH is providing news and weather updates on the hour and half. But that’s it.
Ten minutes from now the Houston Astros pregame will begin.
Three years ago Houston narrowly missed a direct hit by Hurricane Rita. KTRH did a brilliant job covering that storm.
The city has grown enormously in twenty years. Many people have never been through a tropical storm let alone a hurricane.
This is the time for a station like KTRH to hold the hands of the city’s citizens and lead the way through the storm.
Put Hannity on hold. Move the baseball to KPRC. Bring reporters in from sister stations.
There is no excuse for a news giant like KTRH to sleep at a time like this. We’re not talking about a few thunderstorms, but perhaps life and death.
Shameful.
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