DISH Fails EAS Test? No Perhaps the EAS Test Fails DISH!
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Why wouldn't this include all NETWORKS, i.e. Comedy Central, Discovery, CNN, etc, too ? That would avoid any issues with the 'local' system (or in the case of satellite, nationwide).
Exactly my thought. Why put the responsibility on the provider of 100's of channels and not the channels? Well, I guess that is a bit overkill, instead of 1 fail, there would be 100's of fail...
Does this mean it should have also interrupted all channels carried by FCC-licensed satellite operators, for example al Jazeera on 97W, or are they exempt, being primarily "backhaul" instead of "public facing" operators?
Nothing interrupted the playback of my recording of 12 O'clock high.
I missed the whole darn thing, bummer.
RT.
I missed the whole darn thing, bummer.
RT.
Today's first-ever national test of the television and radio emergency warning system went off at 1 p.m., but with a few glitches.
Initial reports indicated the test ran appropriately on most, but not all, radio and TV stations.
Media reports indicate DirecTV subscribers heard the Lady Gaga song "Paparazzi" while the test was in progress. It's unclear whether that was intentional.
Terrence Dupuis, an engineer at St. Louis NPR affiliate KWMU, said his station had its own problem."Our programming was interrupted, but the audio message was very distorted," Dupuis said.The message was fed from National Public Radio in Washington.The warning varied by station.An audio message was supposed to say, "This is a test." Some television stations included the text "Emergency Action Notification has been issued," but not all were able to have the audio message that the notification was only a test.Some stations showed a notification screen, while others showed a scroll over their normal programing with information about a warning.Some 911 answering centers, including the one run by the St. Louis County police, had extra call-takers on duty to handle a possible surge in inquiries. Police here said they saw no increase in calls resulting from the test.The Emergency Alert System is intended to warn of national crises, such as earthquakes or terrorist attacks.
Initial reports indicated the test ran appropriately on most, but not all, radio and TV stations.
Media reports indicate DirecTV subscribers heard the Lady Gaga song "Paparazzi" while the test was in progress. It's unclear whether that was intentional.
Terrence Dupuis, an engineer at St. Louis NPR affiliate KWMU, said his station had its own problem."Our programming was interrupted, but the audio message was very distorted," Dupuis said.The message was fed from National Public Radio in Washington.The warning varied by station.An audio message was supposed to say, "This is a test." Some television stations included the text "Emergency Action Notification has been issued," but not all were able to have the audio message that the notification was only a test.Some stations showed a notification screen, while others showed a scroll over their normal programing with information about a warning.Some 911 answering centers, including the one run by the St. Louis County police, had extra call-takers on duty to handle a possible surge in inquiries. Police here said they saw no increase in calls resulting from the test.The Emergency Alert System is intended to warn of national crises, such as earthquakes or terrorist attacks.
Nothing interrupted the playback of my recording of 12 O'clock high.
I missed the whole darn thing, bummer.
RT.
didn't miss much lol
I'm sure it was accidentally on purpose, or intentionally an accident. One of those.
Actually some networks (the only ones that jump to mind are Time Warner- I'll try to find the docs) are EAS participants, so they should have cut in (which, many did not) - but it seems there were also failures of many points along the link, which may be a reason as to why they did not.
I was in the car and the sound went off then it was just silent. I tried a couple other stations and they were silent too. Sounds like a lot of glitches in the system.
HBO didn't run it at the time it was listed. I recorded 2 mins at that time and nothing went out other than the scheduled movie.
That list might be out of date, however I recall somewhere w/ pics of the HBO uplink, with EAS equipment. However CNN didn't run it either, and on the broadcast, they said they would be back after the EAS test, but came right on (no cuts) - so dunno what happened.
I was watching Fox News on Dish. Megyn said she would talk right through it as if it was not happening. She did! It didn't!
Have same here! Watching ABC World News and they are talking about it right now. Lady Gaga biggest thing, nothing about dish...
I had it on Nickelodeon for about 20 minutes and there was no test so I shut it off. I did see the test on WNYW OTA which is a local station with just a stroller and someone taking like he was on a bad cell phone connection. WABC OTA I did not see anything interrupted but breaking news from the local station unrelated. A few local radio stations ran the test but the sound quality was the same horrible.
NBC news indicated that E wasn't the only one that had problems. They didn't say who else but that an investigation on the different problems is now about to take place.
