Complete Coverage Of Total Eclipse Across Radio, TELEVISION
With records from RBR+TVBR in Dallas, Toronto, Los Angeles and Boca Raton, Fla. Across Monday, April 8, from Mazatlán, Mexico, to Dallas and onward to the northeast to locales such as Dayton, Ohio, and Niagara Falls, numerous Americans were witness to one of the most fantastic overall eclipses seen in a generation.
Broadcast and cable television service did their component to cover the historic occasion, while over-the-air radio stations did their component, too, throughout the country, to share coverage of the eclipse with their corresponding target markets.
From the 9am hour onward in Los Angeles, Novena Carmel, host of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, crafted a playlist mostly concentrated on eclipse-themed choices. Across town, Audacy’s all-News KNX-AM & & FM was airing online cut-ins from a public event attended by local politicians. As this was transpiring, a full eclipse, without clouds and various other obstructions, was seen in the Pacific shore city of Mazatlán.
While Noticias Univision and Telemundo’s broadcasts were devoted to what was being seen there, and Univision celebrity journalist Jorge Ramos was posted in Mexico City at the Monument to the Revolution, Scripps News was also sharing the scene in Mazatlán as component special insurance coverage seen throughout the company’s owned-and-operated program TV terminals, including WPTV-5 in West Palm Beach.
The Scripps News insurance coverage preempted NBC’s coverage of the eclipse in the West Palm Beach DMA, as network coverage from CBS News aired on Sinclair Inc.’s WPEC-12 and ABC News/National Geographic joint insurance coverage showed up on Hearst Television’s WPBF-25. At Scripps-run and Gray Television-owned FOX affiliate WFLX-29, a”FOX Weather “feed provided to FOX Television Network affiliates permitted the FOX News Channel to provide its very own, special insurance coverage of the eclipse.
Cable tv all-news networks were also heavily focused on the eclipse, probably pausing from political talk, as CNN and CNN en Español signed up with One America News, Nexstar Media Group-owned NewsNation and NewsMax with coverage. NASA TV coverage might be seen on the Palm Beach County neighborhood gain access to channel in the 2pm hour.
Surprisingly, in the Miami Valley location that’s home to Dayton, Cox Media Group’s WHIO-7 was sticking to CBS’s national feed. Down in Dallas, where “completeness” was occurring at 2:40 pm Eastern, WFAA-8, a Scripps station, went an action additionally than using Scripps News insurance coverage by going deal with its very own North Texas insurance coverage.
AUDIO INTELLIGENCE As lots of were seeing television or going outdoors to see the eclipse themselves, WLW-AM 700 in Cincinnati lunchtime host Bill Cunningham was reviewing the occasion and its effect on traffic with listeners of the top-rated station.
In Toronto, CHBM “Boom 97.3” chose an eclipse-themed playlist timed to coincide with completeness.
As one would certainly expect, Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 chart-topper”Total Eclipse of the Heart”broadcast precisely at 2:24 pm Eastern, right away adhered to by “Here Comes The Sun”The Stingray-owned Adult Hits terminal that can be listened to in Niagara Falls, which had a significant group of visitors on the Ontario side of the river waiting for the eclipse. And, it heavily promoted its special eclipse-themed playlist across social networks leading up to Monday afternoon.
At 3:19 pm Eastern, crosstown CIND “Indie 88” interrupted programming as the eclipse reached its totality in the GTA with The Dirty Nil’s cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
Cumulus Media gained nationwide recognition for a solar eclipse promo at its WZYP-FM in Huntsville, Ala.
. For the previous 2 weeks, the Top 40 station handed out about 1,000 solar eclipse glasses. Before WZYP had actually the glasses made, the terminal held a listener competition to come up with smart phrases to publish on the glasses. The winner? “I’m getting mooned with WZYP.“
Cumulus/Huntsville Operations Manager Steve Smith, who also acts as WZYP Program Director and Afternoon Host, stated, “It’s been so amazing to bond with listeners who are as excited about the eclipse as I am. I’ve liked seeing all of the households and kids appear to get them. Personally, I’ve been waiting for this since I saw the last eclipse in 2017. I’m so right into the eclipse that I’m taking a trip to the course of completeness. Huntsville will only have around 90% completeness, so I’m heading to whatever warm location I can discover in the straight path.”
With reports from RBR+TVBR in Dallas, Toronto, Los Angeles and Boca Raton, Fla. Cable television all-news networks were also heavily focused on the eclipse, probably taking a break from political talk, as CNN and CNN en Español joined One America News, Nexstar Media Group-owned NewsNation and NewsMax with protection. For the previous two weeks, the Top 40 station offered away approximately 1,000 solar eclipse glasses. Personally, I’ve been waiting for this because I saw the last eclipse in 2017. I’m so into the eclipse that I’m taking a trip to the course of totality.
