WMUB Listener Feedback

Has WMUB changed its market area? We have supported the station for some time and relied on it for school closing information. When we did not hear Dayton mentioned on your station earlier this morning, we got our children up for school. One of our sons checked the internet to find out that around midnight the Dayton Public Schools had decided to close. If you are not going to cover Dayton in your service area any more, we would appreciate knowing this.

--Dayton listener

WMUB Program Director John Hingsbergen replies:

I am sorry to hear that your family was inconvenienced by the lack of mention of the Dayton Public Schools closing. The school announcements that we air are those reported to us by the school districts or principals. It appears that we dIDn't have an existing arrangement for contact with DPS . . . Thanks to your message, we will contact the school district and ask them if they would like to participate in our listings.

One caution: We would encourage all our listeners not to rely on the absence of an announcement to indicate that school is open or closed. Even if we have them on our list of intended announcements, it can happen that they "forget" to call us or some other factor causes us to miss the information.