You know how this drill goes. Angry fans get incensed with overzealous local news stations interrupting their live sports coverage with endless breaking weather reports that often don’t amount to anything. Local news people get upset with those angry fans because they’re trying to save your lives. The battle lines have been drawn for all eternity.
But this is by far the most ridiculous example we’ve encountered of a local news station butchering a sporting event with an insipid weather update. WTOC in Savannah broke into coverage of a playoff at Harbour Town right when Jim Furyk was standing over a potential tournament winning putt. He made it, but those fans didn’t get to see it. Instead they got to hear that a flash flood watch was canceled. Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZ5_FcKfwY
You’ve got to be kidding me. That station couldn’t wait another 30 seconds to see if Furyk made the putt to tell its viewers that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WAS HAPPENING. That’s the height of either stupidity or complete disregard for their viewers. Maybe you break into the pivotal moment of a sporting event if there’s a killer tornado or a hurricane or the rapture is happening. But to ruin the entire tournament to tell viewers a watch had been canceled? Good grief! Maybe for their next trick they’ll break into the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl to tell viewers that they’re suffering from partly cloudy skies.
H/T Deadspin
