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EAS Tests- How did they do?

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MickeyD

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It would have been better if they stuck with the 3 minute test it would have been easier to monitor. I got four stations that had problems in Central NJ. WHTG-AM, WOBM-AM, WYGG, and The Breeze 107.1. They went silent but no message.
 
Once again proving that government does nothing well when it does too much.
 
Silkie said:
Once again proving that government does nothing well when it does too much.
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Well... that's one way to interpret it. One could also recall the old EBS system, which worked quite well. But the radio industry - about the time of the first round of deregulation - decided they'd be driven of business having to to run a single 60-second test once a month. So, we got a shortened version. Not short enough for the industry, however. And we eventually got the tragic joke we have now.

But I give the government props for trying to work on an emergency alert system that will eventually work with satellite, the Internet and smart phones. In other words, they're trying to keep up with technology and changing media usage.


I'm no ideologue, but the truth is industry doesn't get it much better than government - particularly broadcasting. Sometimes, it get sit a lot worse. The general state of commercial radio is all the evidence one needs for the purposes of this discussion.
 
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