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Q's cueing problems

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johnbasalla

A programmers error/problem or a computer mishap. If it's on purpose, it's make you go "Huh?"

I turned on "The Hit List" Top 30 countdown show at 7pm. They were already at #27. The second hour kicked off at 7:45pm.

Then came an EAS mishap, or at least I think it was a mishap. It actually was pretty funny and actually timed out just right. Randy Jackson announces the first song of the second hour... Kesha's "Love is My Drug" song. He usually talks right up to where the vocals start. So, he hits his post perfectly, and then I hear the classic EAS tones. ("Wow, has Kesha's voice changed?") OK, actually I figure it's a weather emergency. BUT NOOO! Nothing. After the series of noises, it just goes back to the song. So, if this was an EAS test, you'd think you'd hear an announcement as such. I wonder if it was the monthly test. It was a bad evening to do an EAS test without identifying it as such, because there is a chance of thunderstorms in the forecast and I did see some rather ominous looking clouds out west.

Well, as I'm typing, the EAS goes off at 8pm. It's an ambler alert. I notice that CBS sister station WDOK is running it. Other nearby stations, Moody Bibles WCRF and Clear Channels WMMS are not. The unequalized phone line sound is a bit hard to understand, and I've got big JBL speakers.

Well, back to the countdown. We're at #17.
 
If I get the order correctly, the entire CC/Cleveland cluster is first, given that WTAM is the market's EAS LP-1 station. The CBS stations should go right after that, and so on. In the sense of the clusters, given that many of them share common studios - and even transmitter sites - the EAS alerts should trigger for those specific stations simultaneously.

As Amber Alerts are handled directly by the respective cities' police departments, it's not easy to coordinate the overall quality. Therefore, the feedback of the EAS tones on the phone lines is an issue. Hopefully, as time passes, this should gradually improve.
 
I was listening to WDOK about 10:50 this morning and the EAS alert went off - the first 3 tones that gets your attention, then a couple seconds of dead air, then into a commercial, no message or alert or test notification given. I don't know what was going on right before that either the announcer talking or a commercial, but I don't think it was music, the tones grabbed my attention as I was BS'ing with my co-worker at the moment the EAS tones went off.
 
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