WTKR May 2007 EAS Test

WTKR's Emergency Alert System (EAS) test they have to run once a week (along with all the other stations... at last check, WAVY's was a slide with "EAS" that's gotta date from the mid-late 90s and WVEC's is just a crawl and tone during a program). If you turn your volume all the way up and listen closely, there's this weird noise (not the EAS tone, don't let that scare you when you turn your speakers all the way up) that sounds like people talking, I don't know what it is.

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[SHMCrudhedd]

I am really surprised that there are so many videos of this. I am on youtube mobile, so I'm really scared that I might click on one of them. Anyway, we all need to write letters and e-mails to the FCC and suggest that they change the sound so it's not so scary...

Just sayin'

[ntropolis]

@SHMCrudhedd Heh... at least this is a real one, and not one of the many fake ones people make for some odd reason

[Eaglezfan5]

why do they make that noise so distinctive and freaky.

[ntropolis]

To catch your attention if it were a real emergency.

[pepsiru1es92]

thats so it gets your attention

[DYNAMITE33194]

THIS IS JUST PLIAN CREEPY

[Nodog438]

Weekly Test today, saw it

[cookingboy3]

There was this one video I saw with some IDs of channel 8, and the first theme noise would of made much better then the freaking 1050Hz attention tone. I hate how they have to do live tests weekly, even worse, I used to have Comcast, and whenever I stood up late watching Disney Channel (Only good thing around) the freakin' thing would wake up, my screen would turn black, and I'd fly to my TV and pound my finger into the power button. Gah. SAME sounds horrible too.

[lizzybelle11]

omfg the stupid noise scares the shit outta me.

[BC1Dan]

My ringtone. Needless to say I wake up feeling like WWIII has begun

[MADDOG6400]

0:17 "Whatever your crying about..."

LOL!

[KMH4021]

last year i watched storm chasers where in one part the had those attention signals, and that night at 6:00, there was a F*CKING EAS TEST IN MY BEDROOM!!!!!

[Nanomaster828]

@SHMCrudhedd In theory, that's a good idea, but the tones are supposed to be scary so they grab people's attention. Also, these are the same tones from the EBS, our former national emergency system (the EAS wasn't instated until about 1990).

[coffeeandsugar20]

@SHMCrudhedd The noises contain the vital aspects of the EAS

Just sayin'

[TheCodmw2rocks]

now when your watching something it changes the channel then that comes on.

[TelcoPhil]

I complained to both the FCC and to Time Warner cable, also told them no one pays any attention to it anymore and just mutes their TV. Their excuse was that it is controlled by each individual station. So when you sleep with the TV on like I do, keep the remote where you can find it fast and kill the sound. With luck we won't miss a real alert and die!

I thought the test was run once a month, not weekly. Each station that runs the test over ride everything else.