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Cutting short the EAS weather alerts

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Mike_JT

This might be a misplaced question for this particular forum. If that's the case, please move me to a more appropriate home.

I have a question about weather alerts. Why do channels and cable operators cut off EAS weather alerts before they finish presenting the emergency information? As I type, North Central Texas has a storm with quarter-size hail bearing down, and the alerts are cut off before the end. Just about the time the NOAA guy says "Take shelter if you live in..." It's my understanding that this goes on everywhere, which is why I came to the National TV forum.

And another thing which might be particular to DFW. The offical NOAA alert is followed, usually about five minutes later, with the exact same message broadcast by local radio weatherman Brad Barton. Why would they double up like that? Makes no sense to me.
 
Apparently, the cable company is taking EAS alerts from two sources: NOAA Weather Radio AND WBAP radio (the local EAS Primary station). So they get both sources for each alert. (I don't know whether the cable company has the ability to automatically record an EAS alert from one source while the other is already showing, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

I always found it frustrating in DFW when a local station was actually covering the severe weather event, with a meteorologist talking and showing radar or whatever visual is helpful, only to be interrupted by the cable company's EAS cut-in--which has awful audio and no picture.
 
Happened a lot when thunderstorm warnings were issued this past summer not where I lived and sometimes when my county was issued a thunderstorm warning no ESA came on the cable box which was odd.
 
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