A DIY 'News Cruiser' Radio Setup

Jock Elliot over at The SWLing Post has come up with the concept of having a set of pre-programmed news stations in one or more at-hand radios in this article for gray sky days.  Great idea!  You go read now; I'll wait.

OK, you're back.  Here's a list of links mentioned in the article and in the comments.

• list of Clear-Channel AM stations at NOAA and at Wikipedia
• find local stations at Radio-Locator
• Emergency Alert System Primary Entry Point stations & some more discussion of PEPs

Because no blog post is truly complete without a graphic – oh, and I need a reminder to write some of this down – here's a map of the US's PEP stations:

Finally, while I was writing this post I had to look up the definitions of Blue Sky / Gray Sky conditions in the context of emergency management.  These in a nutshell correspond to "normal times" and "disaster conditions."  Along the way I stumbled across one more term, Black Sky Event.  Hoo boy.  Zero stars, would not recommend to friends.