WCBS Emergency Broadcast System test 1980

A 1980 test of the Emergency Broadcast System, aired by WCBS on a Sunday morning. Yes, that's John Tesh leading into the clip.

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• TV
• EBS
• emergency
• broadcast
• system
• test
• 1980
• New
• York
• nyc
• television
• Sunday

[bobrox70]

This is a John Tesh of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a Tesh!

[peakster753]

@luizgazitamenfilms yup...if you read their respective Wiki pages, you'll realize that the EBS was retired in favor of the EAS in 1997

[luizgazitamenfilms]

it was called ebs bfore eAs?

[WhatsAYak]

@peakster753 - Yeah, that was odd...as I recall, they added a "this station serves the 5 boros of NYC" line to the closing spiel sometime in the mid-80s.

[peakster753]

What happened to the line of "This station serves the ______ area"

[jonvincent12]

Good, to know.

[nicka727]

I think my CBS station WJBK did run an EBS test on a Sunday morning for numerous times during the 1980s to compare with the other CBS O&O's WBBM Chicago and WCBS in NYC. WJBK rarely runs EBS tests on weekdays and it is the known station that runs mostly on weekends in Detroit.

[nicka727]

Speaking of the WCBS video that aired on Sunday Morning, Chicago's WBBM airs EBS tests every Sunday Morning at 8:30am. I think WCBS does the same way like WBBM

[wmbrown6]

The voiceover here was Wally King.