Victorian radio stations to give bushfire warnings
Oct 27
The Victorian Government has reached an agreement with 30 regional and metropolitan Victorian commercial radio stations to provide official emergency warnings in case of bushfire danger for this coming summer.
Stations such as Melbourne-based Triple M, 3AW and Fox FM will join regional broadcasters from all parts of the state to provide emergency warnings at the request of the state government. This will mean that in addition to the ABC’s coverage of emergency events, another 47 radio frequencies used by commercial stations will be able to deliver emergency warnings and broadcasts.
The agreement means that broadcasters agree to interrupt programming to broadcast warnings and in some cases go to continuous coverage should an urgent threat exist.
This means that now the ABC television and radio services, Sky News and Victorian commercial radio will all provide emergency warnings. At this stage, no agreement has been reached with the commercial television broadcasters.
A list of all stations included is available in the Premier’s Press Release.
Discussion of the Victorian bushfire coverage and aftermath is taking place in this thread.
tamago_otoko October 27th 2009