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Post by kenglish on Jan 14, 2013 12:36:47 GMT -6
Anyone know if there is a single-source, or county-by-county source (that might be aggregated somehow), to receive school closure information, on days like we had Friday?
I see to recall seeing something on a couple of other states' broadcaster-association website, that do something like that.
Seems like, with a way to see all of the counties at once, and one-county-at-once pages, we could make a decent "news-ticker" type of crawl for TV, and have a way for radio stations to monitor their local areas' closings.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 15, 2013 23:22:45 GMT -6
I'm not sure RSS is the best way to go. I would think a static webpage that's updated as new reports come in would be the way to go since that type of closure doesn't happen very often. KSL already does that of course, as do others. Was there something in particular about RSS that you were looking to utilize?
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Post by kenglish on Jan 19, 2013 11:13:25 GMT -6
The morning news programs, like the Today Show and CBS This Morning, use an RSS feed on their character generators, to create the news-ticker crawl. I figure that an rss would be easy enough to implement, and if there were different ones for each county, plus a statewide one, it would be something that could be handled easier....TV could ude the state-wide, low-powers and local radio stations could use the counties of their choice. An rss might also be easier to add to RDS and HD Radio text files, and to the station's websites.
Right now, it's just people calling the stations, and passing the word. Then, the news departments have to call master control, who has to type in the info and try to monitor the crawls. Plenty of room for fraudulent "closures", too.
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