The website for Cable News 14 in North Carolina allowed registered users to submit weather related announcements for ., in order to alert local residents of school or business closures. The submissions are posted to the onscreen crawl during the newscast as a public service and periodically rotated. Think Web for television. To prevent abuse, such as users posting defamatory messages, station personnel must first review the submission’s content before it’s allowed to air. Afterward, users are free to edit the content to reflect any changes in status. For example, if a business or a school reopened or is to.
