wdsnls
join:2003-06-19
Palm City, FL | reply to owlyn
Re: Nationwide EAS Test 11/9 2:00 PM EST I don't know if this is the way the EAS test was supposed to work but on my system at 2:04PM EST, the display on my cable box went to EAS. The video went to a Tylenol commercial and there was no audio. It lasted about ten seconds and then returned to regular programming. |
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| Exactly the same thing happened here in Jupiter, FL (maybe we are on the same system). approx 2:05pm - was watching a recorded show on the DVR, channel/time display changed to "EAS", Tylenol commercial appeared for a few seconds, then (instead of returning to the recorded DVR show) the box tuned to the last channel on which I was watching live TV earlier in the day. |
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moes
join:2009-11-15
Indianapolis, IN Reviews:
 ·Revol Wireless
 ·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Comcast
| none of the boxes here went to EAS at all, All I received was the local broadcasts and the other box sitting beside it (yeah I dragged a tv downstairs) stayed on discovery and never changed and never went to EAS. This is the Indianapolis MSO that I refer to not changing |
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 telcodad
join:2011-09-16
Lincroft, NJ
kudos:2 | While I was not near any TV or radios at 2PM ET, I see that there are some early media reports saying there were many problems with the test:
Gizmondo: So That Emergency Alert System Test Was Pretty Much a Failure
»gizmodo.com/5857970/so-that-emer···-failure
NYT: It Was Only a Test, but What a Test
»mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2···-a-test/
"Many of the reported failures affected cable and satellite television subscribers, and some were quite head-scratching: Some DirecTV subscribers said their TV sets played the Lady Gaga song “Paparazzi” when the test was underway. Some Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York said the test never appeared on screen. Some Comcast subscribers in northern Virginia said their TV sets were switched over to QVC before the alert was shown.
In some cases the test messages were delayed, perhaps because the messages are designed to trickle down from one place to many. A viewer in Minneapolis said he saw the message about three minutes late. A viewer in Chattanooga, Tenn., said she saw it about 10 minutes late." |
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| As predicted, epic fail and waster of time and money.
Is anyone surprised? Probably not, so let's spend even more time and money to get it to work, then never use it!
I'd be LOL'ing if it wasn't so sad. |
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·Time Warner Cable
| reply to telcodad
said by telcodad:While I was not near any TV or radios at 2PM ET, I see that there are some early media reports saying there were many problems with the test:
Gizmondo: So That Emergency Alert System Test Was Pretty Much a Failure
»gizmodo.com/5857970/so-that-emer···-failure
NYT: It Was Only a Test, but What a Test
»mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2···-a-test/
"Many of the reported failures affected cable and satellite television subscribers, and some were quite head-scratching: Some DirecTV subscribers said their TV sets played the Lady Gaga song “Paparazzi” when the test was underway. Some Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York said the test never appeared on screen. Some Comcast subscribers in northern Virginia said their TV sets were switched over to QVC before the alert was shown.
In some cases the test messages were delayed, perhaps because the messages are designed to trickle down from one place to many. A viewer in Minneapolis said he saw the message about three minutes late. A viewer in Chattanooga, Tenn., said she saw it about 10 minutes late."
my area only had the alert tone sound with static for 30 seconds and then the test ended tone. So there was no "this is a test" alert in my area but just static. This is in North Texas and this was on an FM station. |
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moes
join:2009-11-15
Indianapolis, IN | we got an image on the screen and the tones and then static like a message was supposed to be played atleast the local broadcasters handled it right and even apologized for the issue about the audio |
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·Comcast
1 edit | this is what my test was like »www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUT0v1xhoLo
Basically the duckfarts were heard, an echo of it, a voice attempted to speak "thi-" then just silence.
Basically the official FEMA view on the malfunctions: "If everything worked perfectly we'd feel we missed something" |
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said by telcodad:Some DirecTV subscribers said their TV sets played the Lady Gaga song “Paparazzi” when the test was underway.
This made me laugh. |
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said by Mike Wolf: the duckfarts were heard, an echo of it, a voice attempted to speak "thi-" then just silence. My local broadcast station (Boston-based) indeed played the spoken audio message in its entirety. It's sad that the quality of the message made the broadcasts from the moon sound like they were in 5.1 surround. 
You would think that in 2011, we'd have something that was a few notches up from Morse code... |
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·Comcast
1 edit | New hardware updates should solve this problem in future tests, Just gotta wait for IPAWS and CAP *sigh*
In January 2010 Alaska conducted a live code emergency action notification (the same code used for this national test) and proved that the national EAS was functional but identified necessary improvements. The next Alaska EAS test in 2011 the following year proved a success and reinforced the idea that continued EAS testing and exercising improves the system. It’s important to remember that this is the first test. The Nov. 9 test should provide us with an accurate snapshot on where we are as a nation so we can improve the EAS incrementally. |
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This isn't the first time directv has played music during an EAS lol »youtu.be/zhrWUG8MO7Y |
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| Ya know, the least they could do is limit the songs to those that were contained on the Clear Channel banned songs list:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Clear···morandum
It would at least set the mood...
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Directv plays music on the holding / info slides / channels. |
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telcodad
join:2011-09-16
Lincroft, NJ
kudos:2 | An article on the Broadcasting & Cable site about today's test:
EAS Test Reveals Deficits - Emergency alert worked in most areas of the country, not in others
»www.broadcastingcable.com/articl···cits.php |
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 jkj860The Final Frontier
join:2002-01-10
Valparaiso, IN
 ·Comcast Digital ..
·Comcast
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I was listening to a local radio broadcast when the test occurred. The sounds went off and someone started to speak saying it was only a test and then it went silent cutting off the message.
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I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant. Nixon |
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 owlynPremium,MVM
join:2004-06-05
Newtown, PA
·Comcast
| As we say in the I.T. world, this is why we test. Now that we know what doesn't work, it can be fixed. The only problem is that it hasn't been tested sooner.
Of course, if we ever do have to use it, the point will be moot, as it would be such a catastrophic event that it really won't matter if we were warned or not. It will just be BOAKYAGB. |
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 djdanskaRudie32Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
San Diego, CA
kudos:4
·Cox HSI
·Verizon Broadban..
·Clear Wireless
·Time Warner Cable
| reply to telcodad
"Many of the reported failures affected cable and satellite television subscribers, and some were quite head-scratching: Some DirecTV subscribers said their TV sets played the Lady Gaga song Paparazzi when the test was underway"
I can hear it now on tomorrow's 700 club: "that here queers with directv are trying to indoctrinate our youth!" haha!
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult. The day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
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| reply to owlyn
true but it gives us engineers something to do so we don't become bored and build robots out of old set top boxes lmao |
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| reply to djdanska
what's sad is that that will actually happen! lmao |
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