LA's Much Maligned 'Storm Watch' Coverage Gets Emmy Recognition
The recent media backlash over Carmageddon included many potshots aimed at LA’s calamitous coverage of winter rainstorms (including one from yours truly). Thanks to the latest round of local Emmy Awards handed out Saturday at the TV Academy, KTLA has the soggy last laugh.
The station won Best “Live Coverage of an Unscheduled News Event” for “Storm Watch.” It’s debatable whether the report qualifies as an unscheduled news event, since typically days of preamble precede local TV live coverage of any December-through-February raindrops.
Mercifully perhaps, the Emmy committee did not single out any KTLA reporters by name for these undated Storm Watch efforts.
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