Hurricane IRENE - East Coast Impact Coverage

Haha ABC's Weather Graphics never fail to impress do they! The only ABC weather graphics that aren't to bad is KGO-TV in San Francisco.

At least some seem to be able to take things in their stride ...

A brief look at State of the Union on CNN and they have taken the Hurricane graphics off leaving the normal graphics slap bang in the middle of the screen.

Did a channel flick earlier.

Is CNBC the only channel not running any ads?

Good, if so.

(Don't watch the US channels that often, so don't know!)

CNBC is still simulcasting, currently it's Meet The Press with David Gregory.

That's normal, it usually does.

Seems it's been downgraded to a Tropical Storm now. Looks like some channels are being slower than others at changing their captions

Looks like CNBC will be providing coverage of the hurricane/tropical storm until 2am, according to Sky's EPG anyway.

What intrigues me, is the focus on the USA. As I understand, this hurricane caused a lot of damage in Barbados, Turk & Caicos. I'd imagine there would be a few people holidaying there at this time of years as well....

Gone back to normal weekend programming now, although earlier there was mention of a special later this evening.

Well firstly hurricanes are far more common in the Caribbean than right up the east coast of the USA. Secondly the east coast of the US, in the course of the storm, has several large areas of population including major cities such as Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore. New York is one of the biggest and most important cities in the World and DC is the capital.

In news terms those 2 factors will always trump the same storm in some lesser populated, and in political and economic terms, less important islands

True enough. It's just the lack of mention of those islands, as opposed to scant mention, that surprised me. But hey-ho.