It's About to Be Much Harder for Rural Alaskans to Get Their Weather Forecast

You can still get audio radio weather forecasts from a cheap radio: https://www.amazon.com/baofeng-radio/s?k=baofeng+radio

This article isn't really true - weather radio is a thing, and covers Alaska. Seems like it doesn't cover the entire area, but then again, neither did this TV show.

See: https://www.mxak.org/services/mda/weather/weather-radio-stat...

Also, this show could simply read the products produced by NOAA as is, it would cost them very little. They presumably wanted to make it a bit nicer, but if simple info is the goal, they could do that.