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EAS Saturday 8/11/07

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DudeFan

Anyone else love the EAS FFW that WCOS sent out that contained 30 seconds of the WCOS robojock and whatever song they were playing?

Any Clear Channel wonders why they got such bad PR in North Dakota?
 
I do understand why the EAS is sent out like that. When I was engineering for Clear Channel the "talent" would not do a weekly/monthly test correctly. Long and short of it.....I would put the EAS unit in auto mode and let the unit do the test. The people (whats left) are not the brightest in the field or don't care. I had to answer for these mistakes all the time to my boss.
 
Disgraceful. You're right about the people that are "left" not caring or not knowing the correct way to run an EAS test. Just another symptom of deregulation. Where are tomorrow's talent going to learn the correct way to run one if every #&*@#$! airshift is VTed by someone in *$^@&#$ Texas or New York? Come to think of it, where are tomorrow's talent going to "learn" period? I've always maintained that you can have the best equipment, best music, best talent, best promotions, best processing, best carpet, best toilet, etc(sorry, got carried away), but at the end of the day, the frequency is there to inform the public in the event of an emergency. The slide into incompetency began when they did away with the 3rd Class license endorsed for broadcasting as a requirement.

But I have more important things on my mind...there's a Hanson song on the radio.....and the DJ is giving away a cheesesteak sandwich and a bumper sticker...never mind the tornado bearing down on us.
 
Gang I remember one faithful Sunday Night doing an air shift at The Pub... NWS had a t-Storm Warning for Kershaw CO... Everything went fine with the eas at the beginning, but someone forgot to turn the broadcast back over to the stations... I could not override the system and I kept calling the NWS to let them know that they did not release our station... I got somebody at the NWS who thought it was no big deal... After me and a few other stations calling the NWS they sent the release tone allowing us to resume broadcasting... I had pissed off listeners who thought it was me playing a bad joke... What a pain!!! CC1
 
WCOS sent the tones and FSK over for a Flash Flood warning and then 30+ seconds of WCOS identification and music and then the FSK EOM.

So, this time, it wasn't the NWS at fault.

I am sure they are going to hear about it tomorrow AM. I am not happy, but I am sure the folks at WWNU/WWNQ are livid!
 
Scott said:
Disgraceful. You're right about the people that are "left" not caring or not knowing the correct way to run an EAS test. Just another symptom of deregulation. Where are tomorrow's talent going to learn the correct way to run one if every #&*@#$! airshift is VTed by someone in *$^@&#$ Texas or New York? Come to think of it, where are tomorrow's talent going to "learn" period? I've always maintained that you can have the best equipment, best music, best talent, best promotions, best processing, best carpet, best toilet, etc(sorry, got carried away), but at the end of the day, the frequency is there to inform the public in the event of an emergency. The slide into incompetency began when they did away with the 3rd Class license endorsed for broadcasting as a requirement.
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AMEN to that! I recall attending staff meetings mandated by the chief engineer because of EAS (earlier EBS) issues and they still couldn't get it right so they dumped the staff and do the EAS autopilot regardless of the air product. The CE would lay it on so think to the Ops staff I actually saw some of them turn a whiter shade of pale and then walk out of the meeting like they had the transmitter stick up their rear. And I still have my 3rd class boxtop.
 
You are correct. Coming from the programming side to the engineering side I have seen both views. Most "new" employees do not have the training they need to do EAS correctly (I should know) Glen Garrett from WCOS was the 1 person who took the time to train the "new" employees @ WCOS. Long Live Glen. ;D
 
5:07 p.m. I might be dumping on WCOS unfairly. I got a dupe a minute later from WTCB, so either it was NWS or it was WCOS and TCB was just relaying it like we (involuntarily) did.
 
I was talking with Glen Garrett today and he thought it may have been the NWS too. I agree the no jock automate this and that is getting real old.
 
I about wrecked my car the other day when I heard the LP-1 where I live (okay it was WMIT, Black Mountain, NC) announce their weekly test as "a test of the Emergency Actvation System" -- they've been doing this long enough to know better.

Eric
 
snailboy said:
I do understand why the EAS is sent out like that. When I was engineering for Clear Channel the "talent" would not do a weekly/monthly test correctly. Long and short of it.....I would put the EAS unit in auto mode and let the unit do the test. The people (whats left) are not the brightest in the field or don't care. I had to answer for these mistakes all the time to my boss.
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I preferr that the EAS is done automatically.....then again I was once at a station that you would get an electric shock every time you had to run one. Guess they needed a human body to complete the electrical circut.
 
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