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Monday, February 8, 2010

Another major snowstorm is heading to the Northeast, and radio is getting ready

Just when Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey radio stations started to dig out from “Snowmageddon” over the weekend, a new Nor'easter is on its way for early Wednesday. Wilmington, Delaware’s WILM-AM (1450) PD Mark Fowser tells Radio-Info that after Saturday’s over two feet of snow, another six inches or more is on its way. They’re planning expanded news and weather reports. You can listen to WILM here. Ocean City, New Jersey’s WIBG-FM (94.3) was off the air Saturday, as were a majority of Atlantic and Cape May County stations when more than 20 inches of snow and 50 mph. blizzard winds cut power in the area – Discuss it. New Jersey’s Millennium Radio VP/News & Network Programing Director Eric Scott tells Radio-Info “We added an interactive blog. The interactive component allows listeners to talk to us directly, and the real-time info enhances our ability (through our statewide network) to cover the snow, with expanded 24-hour news, traffic and weather.” You can listen to WKXW-FM (101.5) here. While the Saturday snow didn’t impact New York City much, this new snow and the potential of 12-18 inches is heading there, and both CBS-owned all-news WINS-AM (1010) and WCBS-AM (880) are getting ready. You can listen to “1010 WINS” here.

Tags: WILM, WIBG, WKXW, WINS, WCBS

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