• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

DFW TV Station Delays Tornado Warning

Boy gotta argue everything...

No, not "argue." You argue over opinions. Your claims were factually wrong. If you want to post factually wrong stuff, go to Facebook :)

Actually it is legal to stream the game. NFL does all prime-time and local FREE!

The NBC affiliate is not allowed to put the NFL game on their livestream.

Is your defense PDS vs Emergency?

I'm not defending anything. I'm pointing out where you were factually incorrect.

They should have been on the air.

Which is the point we've all made from the get-go :)
 
If you ask me, this "policy" was an attempt by NBC Universal to drive folks to install their app, while maybe also cutting down on a few complains about interrupted programming. It is worth noting that KXAS NBC5 is one of 12 stations that NBC Universal actually owns directly. What surprises me is they implemented this "policy" in spite of a heavy investment in weather. NBC5 has it's own S-band radar, a mobile X-band radar, and 2 fully equipped chase vehicles. They also have 6 meteorologists on staff. Getting a rap of not breaking in for a PDS Tornado Warning kind of goes against that investment. Of course NBC Universal also invests heavily in broadcasting the NFL.

Very interesting. I work (as a technical director/video editor) for the NBC affiliate here in Madison and we have (and have had since long before I started) a wall-to-wall ON AIR policy for any time there is a tornado warning in effect for any part of our market area.
 
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That's probably a bit too far in the other direction :) If you don't trust your weatherperson, get a real meteorologist. Let them make the call.
 
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