This is what I mean by radio coming to the rescue when a city or town is hit hard. 

Speaking of this ice stormy day. I heard there was some technical issues at CTV London. So they did a regional newscast tonight from the CTV London studio with Carlyle Fieset. But from what I understand it was a pre-recorded newscast not live because there was no one in the control room. So the question is: How do you run everything on a newscast without someone running the slides and on screen graphics? 

Here is info from CTV Windsor.

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I've been up in the Kawarthas last couple days. Has there been much or any coverage of the significant damage done from 1-2 inches of ice accretion over a wide swath from at least as far west as Orillia/Barrie through well east of Peterborough, north from well south of Lindsay to well north of Haliburton area? (And maybe even beyond that?) I've seen very little actual coverage and people I know in Toronto tell me there's been next to none. Phone lines are down and power is out just about everywhere, with restoration in many places a week or more away. It's like thousands of low-level tornadoes struck the area, in terms of the consistency of trees and lines down within this area. Even in Peterborough! I saw multiple cases of people stranded in rural homes, unable to get their cars out due to fallen trees and clusters of wires. Cell service has also been surprisingly spotty and at times non-existant. That really surprised me, particularly because of the push to move everything online and digital, from payments to service provision. Both during the ice storm and in the days afterwards. It was meteorologically extreme up there; long-time locals telling me they'd never experienced anything like it. And I've certainly never seen anything quite like it. I drove yesterday from Kawathas to check on other properties north of Buckhorn in Trent Lakes and also in Peterborough, then drove back to TO last night through the latest round of freezing rain (I stopped through the worst of it for dinner to wait for the changeover to actual rain). Every ten minutes on the one, 680 News repeated the same generalized warnings about freezing rain eventually turning into rain without giving any actual details about impacts beyond Toronto and *parts* of the GTA. Even though they are a ticker-news format and the signal reaches well beyond Toronto. I could get no real sense of timing as to where it was snowing, or if it had switched to ice pellets/freezing rain, or to rain. With no cell service in places like Millford and Pontypool, I really could have used updates on the radio as to the current temperatures and what was falling in different locations, and what the timing would be like. What's really needed in intense situations that are live, is some kind of cooperative effort where a station like 680 can reach out even to just other Rogers stations for their own real-time updates. I didn't bother with 91.9 Lindsay or 101.5 Peterborough and such because past experience tells me their reports are very sporadic at best. Anyhow, regional and local governments up there declared a state of emergency. I'm curious - did that make the news in Toronto?