When Bad Weather Breaks Out, Your Station Breaks In
Even when your station is unattended, our system can immediately interrupt regular programming
for a severe weather bulletin in English, Spanish or both. Or you can have it wait until
whatever's playing ends, then air the bulletin next.
Or you can limit bulletin break-ins to every so often, such as 3-10 minutes.
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UnattendedWeather.com software is constantly monitoring the National Weather Service
for severe weather warnings and bulletins the counties you choose. When an alert is issued, you'll air
something similar to this:
"We interrupt regular programming on [your call letters and dial position] to bring you this Severe Weather
Bulletin from the National Weather Service.
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"A [tornado or other severe] warning has been issued for our area.
We now take you to the National Weather Service for the exact text of their bulletin.
[Synthesized voice gives exact word for word details of National Weather Service bulletin.]
"This has been a bulletin from the National Weather Service. A [tornado] warning in our area.
[If tornado] You are advised to take shelter in the center portion of your building in an area with no windows.
A tornado is possible.
"Stay tuned to [your call letters and dial position] for more details. We now return
to our regular programming. [your call letters and dial position] keeps you informed."
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Fully as important as this immediate on-air notification of your listeners,
UnattendedWeather also sends all your people text messages advising of the bulletin.
Your staff can decide whether
someone should go to the station or activate your remote broadcast capabilities.
Our bulletin will air every 3 to 10 minutes as long as the National Weather
Service has the warning
in effect, or any shorter period that you select. It can also automatically
include any other weather information such as current temperature,
conditions (rain, snow, severe thunderstorm, etc.) as part of this bulletin.
You select which alerts air and for which counties. You may choose to not
break into unattended programming for flash flood,
fire hazard, volcano alerts or certain other warnings.
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Setting up these bulletins is easy and our experienced automation techs will
talk you through setup. Our technology won't be obsolete any time soon. These
unattended bulletins play nice with the new CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) and IPAWS
(Integrated Public Alert and Warning System) that are forthcoming, as well as the
current EAS (Emergency Alert System).
For info about the nuts and bolts of our technology,
click here.
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