Local Breaking News Waits On No One

By: Star Com Media
 
COWLINGTON, Okla. - May 13, 2014 - PRLog -- On May 6th, 2014, events unfolded at a near by community college, namely Carl Albert State College in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, regarding a bomb threat. Though KKRP covered the story more extensively than our area full power radio and TV counterparts, this particular event showed KKRP and the entire Star Com Radio Network that we had a severe handicap in not being able to do a "Live" broadcast. Our investigative team had to rely on call backs from law enforcement, the college and others. This delayed our coverage for as much as one hour.

Another simular event took place just 6 days earlier in Poteau, Oklahoma, involving the Elementary and High School. This incident started the initial discussion, however no one expected two such events in less than 1 week and merely miles from the KKRP studios.

Community radio stations like KKRP are vital to the broadcast industry because these tiny stations focus on events that occur in their community and about their citizens. Be it a natural disaster, a late breaking story, government meetings, local events, to incidents like what happened May 6th and late in April. Only a small community station can cover the story and give it the proper coverage it deserves because unlike a full power station, which leaves the area to cover other stories for their large listeners and viewers, community radio stations stay with the story from start to finish because these stories and events affect that community and those listeners.

This is where you can help. A fundraising effort has been started and we need your support. The money generated from this fund raising effort will be used in getting the mini-van, equipment, Wi-Fi connection and other necessary material to do "Live" news break-ins when and where these events happen and do it within minutes, not hours later. Simply go to https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/5lRN6 and make a donation.

Help us become the primary source of breaking news for these communities. The donation you make today could easily save a life tomorrow.

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