If you’re a television station in Florida or Louisiana, you’d want to be known for your hurricane coverage. If you’re a television station in California, you’d want to be known for your coverage of earthquakes. And if you’re a television station in Oklahoma, you’d want to be recognized by your peers for your tornado coverage. […]
If you’re a television station in Florida or Louisiana, you’d want to be known for your hurricane coverage.
If you’re a television station in California, you’d want to be known for your coverage of earthquakes.
And if you’re a television station in Oklahoma, you’d want to be recognized by your peers for your tornado coverage.
Tribune’s NBC affiliate KFOR Oklahoma City has been honored with the national Emmy award for its spot news coverage of the Moore tornado in May of 2013. The award was given at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences National News & Documentary Emmy Award ceremony in New York Saturday night.
“The Moore tornado was devastating,” said Wes Milbourn, KFOR’s general manager.
“But we know that our severe weather coverage saved lives that day. Our team did everything possible to alert viewers to the danger.”
KFOR spent three days in continuous live coverage during and after the tornado.
“We were all deeply touched by what happened,” said Natalie Hughes, KFOR’s executive producer and acting news director.
“Our news and weather team worked tirelessly from tracking the tornado as it approached Moore through covering the stories of survivors, the post storm clean up and the rebuilding process.”
KFOR also won a national Emmy in 2006 for coverage of tornadoes in Oklahoma.
To read more about the Moore tornado and KFOR’s coverage it, click here.
KFOR received a Heartland Regional Emmy Award for a weather image promo related to its coverage of the tornado.
Here is a compilation of KFOR’s tornado coverage that was submitted for the Emmy and below that is the KFOR weather promo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpO2dM_v_s&feature=youtu.be
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