What is the best way to disseminate emergency and health information for a radio station? Again, the panels turn to the ongoing dialog trying to figure out the “correct” model to optimally use the internet. PSAs, live remotes from vaccine events, and interviews with health officials may be options to get the information out on air as opposed to the internet. As the industry seems to be currently, a mix of both the social and new media and traditional methods may be the best.

Mass texts, such as those used by Oakland University might overload the system if too many people use the tower at once. Any system is going to have a finite number of texts or emails at once… this gives the choices of increasing the bandwidth on the network or tier-ing the texts/emails. Training the DJs in imperative as nervous DJs on air with an emergency have no credibility. For campus emergencies, one university has a close partnership with the campus police, which is a cool alliance that WXOU doesn’t necessarily have, which might be interesting for WXOU to explore further in the future.