When your city is covered in 3/4" of freezing rain/ice, which will bring down all sort of trees, power lines, phone and cable and all that...the media takes over all the local TV channels with wall to wall coverage while almost all radio programming continues on as usual.
Practically everyone has a battery powered radio, and practically no one (except me!
) has a battery powered TV. So with a million people in the dark, who is watching all that TV?
We do have one clear channel AM station here, WSB, and they are all news. Everyone knows when the crap hits the circulator that's where you go for info. But it still amuses me that all that TV coverage is going out when so few actually have a working TV to see it with.