Did anybody else catch the Amber Alert yesterday and if so, how did it come through?
I had on Cumulus' WICC in Bridgeport. It looks like they're suffering from not having a staff engineer and the regional and corporate folks are asleep at the switch. The tones came through loud and clear ... and that was the only thing! The alert audio was so far down in the mud that even turning off the car to kill any noise didn't help. Lucky it was a daypart with a live announcer who could repeat what most of the people could not hear.
By the time I stopped laughing the next closest CT station had the end-of-message tone playing so I couldn't hear them as a comparison. Anybody else catch it on their local CT station and if so was the announcement that aired listenable?
It totally blows my mind that some stations don't test their equipment to make sure it's actually working. If that's an example of how well EAS is going to work, well, we're all in trouble.
I had on Cumulus' WICC in Bridgeport. It looks like they're suffering from not having a staff engineer and the regional and corporate folks are asleep at the switch. The tones came through loud and clear ... and that was the only thing! The alert audio was so far down in the mud that even turning off the car to kill any noise didn't help. Lucky it was a daypart with a live announcer who could repeat what most of the people could not hear.
By the time I stopped laughing the next closest CT station had the end-of-message tone playing so I couldn't hear them as a comparison. Anybody else catch it on their local CT station and if so was the announcement that aired listenable?
It totally blows my mind that some stations don't test their equipment to make sure it's actually working. If that's an example of how well EAS is going to work, well, we're all in trouble.
