Studios surrounded by water
Bundaberg’s Hitz939 and 4BU have finally commenced regular
programming after nine days simulcasting emergency and flood recovery
information to the Wide Bay region.
A rotation of on-air announcers have been broadcasting live 24/7 as
the floods peaked and the clean-up effort commenced. As well as on-air
updates, the stations utilised social media to update residents, and
almost doubled their Facebook likes in the space of a week. Some staff
cut off from the studios by road were using the internet to keep
Facebook pages up to date.
Station GM Trish Mears says “We had many of our
own staff cut off by flood waters and it made sense to use those who
were available on rotating shows by combining both stations to add to
our efforts.”
Emergency broadcasts began after a number of tornados swept through
the region, followed by a catastrophic 9.5m flood peak for the Burnett
River.
Staff continued to broadcast even though the studios were in an
evacuation zone, and were prepared to broadcast from a new location if
required.
(Source : radioinfo.com.au)
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