It’s commonplace for sports activities followers to get bent a bit out of practice when real-world information preempts dwell protection of a significant sporting occasion.
Viewers of Memphis CBS affiliate WREG who had tuned in to look at Florida play Auburn within the Last 4 on Saturday discovered themselves in that very state of affairs.
With tornadoes threatening that space, twister warnings continued to pop up on the station and even lower into the audio through the recreation.
That didn’t go away some followers too pleased, however WREG chief meteorologist Tyler Eliasen didn’t need to hear the complaints and issued a scathing assertion based on Geoff Calkins of The Each day Memphian.
“I don’t want to hear one more comment about why we’re covering up the volume of the game,” Eliasen stated on the dwell broadcast. “You may see the sport. You’re going to must cope with my voice after which simply cope with it once more as a result of we misplaced a number of individuals. A number of individuals died Wednesday evening and probably that is saving somebody’s life in Dumas proper now.
“This is still not in that path, not there yet, I should say, but it is a significant tornado, a confirmed tornado and it was very violent going into New Albany, Mississippi. So we’re going to track this. It is what it is. Send me some emails later and we can chat more but this is what it is right now. Deal with it.”
It isn’t the primary time that twister warnings particularly have angered viewers.
In 2019, through the NBA Finals, followers felt the wrath of a Virginia ABC-affiliate WSET weatherman who was unapologetic over his station’s protection of twister warnings throughout Recreation 7.
Fox 45’s Jamie Simpson additionally went viral that very same yr for going off on followers of the present “The Bachelor” after twister protection in Dayton, Ohio interrupted their viewing expertise.
