KETV (Cox Channel 9) unveiled a new "Traffic to Go" feature on its website, KETV.com, this week.A link from the home page provides site visitors with a capsule look at traffic troubles in several categories, including "accidents," "construction," "disabled vehicles," "congestion" and "police/fire activity."
"We know a lot of people are checking both their TV and their computers in the morning, so we're now in a position to offer up-to-the-minute reports online in the morning like we always have on TV," said KETV.com Webmaster Shiloh Woolman.
The Traffic to Go link is only available on KETV.com for the morning drive, Woolman said.
7 comments:
Does Omaha really need a traffic report? Are you kidding me?
First News is a joke now.... I long for the days of Oakey, Bredow & Severe...
While I agree that Omaha is not a blazing metropolis with bumper to bumper traffic every morning and evening, there are times when it is beneficial to have traffic reports--particularly when I-80, 480 or 680 have huge accidents which close down all or most traffic in a particular direction. However, when such accidents occur, I would be much more likely to be listening to the radio--not watching TV or surfing the internet--to find out which roads to avoid. If TV stations want to have traffic information, I think it is more logical and realistic for them to report road construction information. Then they wouldn't have to use a traffic service and/or an in-studio person to do the reports.
KETV will never be more than the local trailer park news until there is a house cleaning of the management.
mTm
Bless their hearts. Those folks at KETV keep trying don't they.
WOWT has had "DriveTimeSaver" posted on their website for several months, if not a year or more, so I don't know why KETV adding traffic reports to its site is such "breaking news."
When WOWT unveiled a traffic feature for its website, a story was published in the print edition of The Reader.
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