After 47 years, the National Weather Service's daily TV broadcast to Alaskans will end. Unreliable internet means many will go without critical information.
or fails to operate at a high enough rate to enable video streaming. Earlier this month, an undersea communication cable was severed, triggeringcan be a big burden for Alaskans,In much of rural Alaska, there is also no local news offering weather broadcastsTV channels, compiled and distributed byOn one of those stations, a partnership between Alaska Public Media and NWS ensured that “Alaska Weather” aired each day at 5:30 P.M.
. Emergency alerts, like storm warnings, will be relegated to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration radio broadcasts, which don’t cover the whole state, per Alaska Public Media.Officials from the state-owned, non-profit media organization say that money problems are to blame. Putting together and distributing “Alaska Weather” has cost Alaska Public Media $200,000 annually, and the network can’t afford to do it anymore, according to Linda Wei, APM’s chief content officer.
“We’ve been doing this, without support, for about four or five years, and we’ve made that known to NOAA,” said Wei to WaPo. “It just got to the point where we couldn’t continue.” Wei says she’s hoping there’s a possibility of getting “Alaska Weather” back on the
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