EAS Monthly and Amber Alert Test

Mmk. I was watching Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, when the scary, yet helpful EAS Tone apeared! This is only a test, but freaky how it emphasizes an Amber Alert!!

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Entertainment

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• jacobdallen
• clayranger
• emergency
• amber
• alert
• tone
• lightningbolt
• system

[rumbazz]

Does this kind of EAS air across Arizona, or is it cable provider specific?

[SuperSonicTailsEas]

rumbazz, this was a statewide test. I have Cox Communications, and they have a simple, 80's computer-like, white, pixely text.

[skitzrb]

Wow I never have heard a sound like that at the 38 second mark!

[SuperSonicTailsEas]

Yeah, skitz. I am about a year or so into the EAS, and never have I come across a tone similar to that.

[LAAngels2009]

How come the EAS layout I get looks like a community chest card from monopoly. It's a blue box with a red line in the outside. With the counties in white in the center of the box? I want the original one with the black screen

[atvrider7]

whos your tv system provider, what equipment do you have, cable box, dvr? tivo? if so, what brand.

[weatherexpert2]

Intresting thing to note:

I'm not sure, if this applies for tests or not, but FCC EAS rules state that the audio of a stations broadcast must be muted during the broadcast of an EAS message, including the attention signal.

As you can hear, this station did not do that properly.

[weatherexpert2]

@skitzrb

that was the same tone that preceded it, recorded off the initial broadcast from the local primary EAS relay station, except it was greatly distorted,

[DYNAMITE33194]

CableOne always uses that tone at 38 seconds so its nothing new to me