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I fail to see the use case for street by street emergency or weather broadcasts. The weather forecast is unreliable enough at city level, let alone street level
by davb 9y ago
I fail to see the use case for street by street emergency or weather broadcasts. The weather forecast is unreliable enough at city level, let alone street level. And what emergencies would be so serious as to warrant turning on TVs on just my street or in my area? Seems like a thin veil for giving broadcasters more control over end user devices.
- vim_wannabe 9y agoProbably a byproduct to sell the idea to regulators. From another comment: >Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc last month called the new standard “the Holy Grail” for the advertiser because it tells them who is watching and where.
- cylinder714 9y agoThe National Weather Service offers localized weather down to the neighborhood level. My experience has been that it's pretty reliable as I live miles away from the weather station that gathers the official data for my city. And what emergencies would be so serious as to warrant turning on TVs on just my street or in my area? I live very close to the evacuation zone for the recent Napa-Sonoma fires, close enough that we were on an evacuation alert: we didn't have to leave, but we had to be ready in case the situation worsened.