North Carolina EBS Training

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12 жыл бұрын

Learn how to run an Emergency Broadcast System test in 1990 and how doing your part makes your city, state and country safe. Real broadcast professionals will show you how!

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@daftoptimist 7 жыл бұрын

I now feel fully qualified to run an entire radio station in my state. In 1990. Thank you.

@syferdet 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if I have to hold my hands in such an uncomfortable position in order to read my lines this guy at 7:13.

@TrickyMario7654 Жыл бұрын

7:07 Bit of trivia to the viewers. Laurel Smith, the woman seen here, chose to resign as general manager of WQDR in 1991 after she received a number of sexual assault allegations from fellow employees. This also prompted Durham Life to leave the broadcasting industry. Despite the issues going on behind the scene, this was a pretty well presented training video. It captures the late 1980s to early 1990s broadcasting scene and how stations handled EBS alerts. Of course, the EAS nowadays is all automatic and we receive them in a more timely matter than the old EBS system.

@lomgshorts3 11 ай бұрын

I have seen videos on VHS, Betamax, then on the internet on how local broadcasters operate during local, state, and federal emergencies. EAN, EBS, Messages are broadcasted many times during a year for weather (tornado, floods, hurricanes, severe storms), toxic spills, missing children, and many other emergencies. I have worked as a DJ and broadcast engineer at five radio stations in the north, central, and southern radio stations. I have observed the long formulation of the EBS system over 30 years and tell you that it is a dependable and believable notification system. I remember the storm of Spring '93 when 4' of snow fell on Franklin, NC and I was trapped at work in WFLC/WRFR for five days. We passed many EBS messages to Macon County during that time. Unfortunately, the people didn't obey the advisory to not use their phones unless it was an emergency and as the power to the switching stations was gone, the batteries at the same switching and trunk stations didn't last but 48 hours, isolating many elderly people from help. Many people died of exposure because they couldn't call for help. When requested, do not use your phone unless it is really is an emergency! You could have been the ones that were exposed to the withering cold without any hope of rescue.

@Tamishvara Жыл бұрын

It's honestly a wonder to have such history still at hand, preserved... To see what was, and where we've come from.

@thomthumbe 3 жыл бұрын

I got a chuckle watching this. Just about everybody’s eyes are focused above or below the camera, and their eyes are ‘scanning’, as if reading a book. 😆 As for the EBS topic, I LOVE to reminisce those days. I worked hand-in-hand with county officials regarding Civil Defense. My father’s private business had one of those yellow and black CD signs on the front of the building, as the basement was built with very thick cement walls and ceiling.

@russellpavlov1343 2 жыл бұрын

Back in 1990, the Youngstown, Ohio-area CPCS1 station for Emergency Broadcast System test was Radio 57 WKBN (now Newsradio 570 WKBN).

@andrewsanches3816 2 жыл бұрын

how long did take them to relay severe thunderstorm warnings to viewers from the national weather service?

@paulloveless4122 Жыл бұрын

🤣 I love how he flips on the emergency tone with physical style and flair.

@NicksMadScience 4 ай бұрын

Interesting how the Emergency Alert System, successor to the EBS, basically took all the procedures that were done using humans and checklists and automated them. So cool to trace things back to their roots

@johnwbyrd 7 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful love letter from 1990.

@markquiswest6607 Жыл бұрын

John F. Kennedy had started the Emergency Broadcast Action Notification System, back in 1962 during the Cold War Era of the Cuban Missile Crisis!

@MinifigNewsguy 6 жыл бұрын

Until the Feds began testing the EAS nationwide in 2011, the country was lucky to not ever had to deal with any serious emergency, as the EAS had many fails left and right. If that was bad, imagine how much worse such test or EAN was done on a national level. *imagine listening to Madonna on a C-band dish of an EBS test* :oP

@michaellovely6601 4 жыл бұрын

I hope that the Emergency Alert System will *never* have to be activated at the National level. It's still frightening to me if the Emergency Alert System is activated at the local level; but I respect it because it meant to let people know that there is a natural or man-made disaster that warrants the activation of the Emergency Alert System.

@mharris5047 Жыл бұрын

@@michaellovely6601 It wasn't official but we had a de facto national activation on 9/11/01 during the WTC and Pentagon plane crash bombings. IIRC even HBO switched to a news feed from another channel. I don't know of any broadcast or cable channel in the US not broadcasting news video and commentary for at least three hours after the bombings. You would hope that cooperation would happen again in case of a nuclear war, other bombing of the US or serious incident of national importance. The EAS is audio only which is suboptimal if video is available.

@michaellovely6601 Жыл бұрын

@@mharris5047 Mm-hm. A lot of people wonder why the Emergency Alert System wasn't activated during the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The reason why is because when the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 AM the three major national morning news programs were still on the air: "Good Morning America" on ABC, the "Today" show on NBC, and "The Early Show" on CBS.

@andyrose5616 10 ай бұрын

@@mharris5047There were many cable channels and a fair number of smaller independent broadcast channels that did not air news on 9/11.

@MichaelLovely-mr6oh 6 ай бұрын

@@mharris5047Absolutely. Whenever someone asks why the Emergency Alert System was not activated during the attacks of September 11th, 2001; I explain to them that it is due to the time of day the attacks. When the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 AM Eastern time the three major national morning news shows were still on the air: "Good Morning America" on ABC, the "Today" show on NBC, and "The Early Show" on CBS.

@wishesnetwork 12 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is some interesting stuff.

@joshuagalka5621 11 жыл бұрын

Great Video

@LMMediaGroup 10 жыл бұрын

Not only was the EBS already defunct by that point (as Benjamin Mullin pointed out), the media saturation of the events was at such a level that interrupting it with an EAS warning would be counter-productive.

@ImpetuouslyInsane 3 жыл бұрын

Oddity Archive needs to riff this.

@daftoptimist 21 күн бұрын

As an NC resident and an Oddity Archive fan, that would make my day.

@briandonegan8480 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Voluntary. Riiiiiight.

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 3 ай бұрын

Sure it was. Only an idiot would object to saving lives.

@Mythical6255 5 жыл бұрын

I would say “Chadtronic needs to see this!”, but after seeing that his KZfaq videos are being screened, I don’t think it’s worth it right now

@user-jt5vm3mi1w Жыл бұрын

what

@parochial2356 Жыл бұрын

Oh, how I yearn for the days of Conelrad.

@luisreyes1963 8 ай бұрын

Also the days when only the Russkies & us had nukes. ☢️

@LMMediaGroup 10 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing this!

@markquiswest6607 Жыл бұрын

The old Emergency Broadcast System is better than the today's, Emergency Alert System!

@thomasnativo6491 9 ай бұрын

I bet Emergency Alert System has these Checklist just like did EBS

@loganmacgyver2625 4 жыл бұрын

Its quite a slow process to interrupt a program with a human in the middle. Now i understand why they switched to the automatic EAS

@sonotswifty Жыл бұрын

That, and the technology back then wasn't as good as it is now.

@BigNate60_2.0 8 ай бұрын

Idk if it’s just me, but with this specific recording, it’s not the graphic that scares me, it’s the tape damage. It makes the reporter’s face look really distorted.

@alfie9876 10 жыл бұрын

@ 5:04 is that a floor console TV hanging as a monitor? Funny seeing that now that we have flat screens.

@tkaye2 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's hanging. Whatever it's standing on is shrouded in black to blend in with the background. The dial tuner makes me think it's a late '70s model. Consoles from the late '80s or early '90s pretty well all had push-button controls.

@nickcliff 6 ай бұрын

There so many components to the ebs system

@brianfletcher9774 2 жыл бұрын

There is computer equipment that does it all now. No need to record from the phone ? Or am I wrong ?

@EMSThinWhiteLine12866 11 жыл бұрын

Do you have any EAS training material videos? I'd love to have those. I downloaded your video to my computer with RealPlayer download so I can watch it offline.

@ConStormENT 2 жыл бұрын

Realplayer lol what a classic

@Sweeptoken Жыл бұрын

It seems like the EAS would be much faster and automatic

@GOFLuvr 2 жыл бұрын

The EBS saves lives? All this time I thought it was just to broadcast messages that say "this is only a test, "BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP"! And of course, "this concludes our test."

@tobeannounced_TBAEAS 8 ай бұрын

They test regularly to ensure that they are functioning in case of an ACTUAL emergency...

@altfactor 7 жыл бұрын

Video Response Time: 3 Hours? By then, the world would have ended!

@DanTheMan1985ful 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but like they said 9 times out of 10 most EBS/EAS/EAN's are weather-related. How often do you hear any presidential alerts on a national level? Almost never. But Severe Weather alerts such as Winter Storm, Severe Thunderstorm, Tornado, Flood, Flash Flood, and Hurricane warnings associated in those broadcasts are what most of us would see and hear on an everyday basis. And as far your "world would've ended by then" scenario... Maybe YOUR world has ended, but everyone else who has took heed, paid attention, and followed instructions beforehand from the Attention Signal still have a world that has NOT ENDED TO LIVE IN.

@dantheelevatorman1 4 жыл бұрын

DanTheMan1985ful isn’t it now in days that with the emergency alert system everything is merely instant?

@DanTheMan1985ful 4 жыл бұрын

@@dantheelevatorman1 Yes but both the FCC and the NAB require stations to have a valid reason why they're interrupting normal programming. Unless if it's a monthly test or technical difficulties, It needs to be verified from the authorities or other government officials to send an alert to the general public. Let's just say if you're working on a production line and your supervisor expects you to keep it running all day long. And all of a sudden you shut it down and have down time, where your supervisor shows up, AND YES THEY WILL BE ASKING AND DEMANDING AN ANSWER OUT OF YOU of "Why are you down?" Or "Why are we not running?" Same reason why you're interrupting regularly scheduled programming and must be put on the air.

@Galactipod 2 жыл бұрын

Right afterward, they said: "The video response time is the time allowed to get the President to a television transmission facility, and not the time allowed for TV stations to respond."

@MichaelLovely-mr6oh 5 ай бұрын

@@DanTheMan1985fulIf we are all lucky we will never have to face an activation of the Emergency Alert System at the national level; but it is still unsettling when the Emergency Alert System is activated at the local level for events such as severe weather situations and power outages.

@stephenmichaelharding278 10 жыл бұрын

Did they do any public tours of wptf or wqdr?

@DanTheMan1985ful 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they have. Both WQDR and WPTF share the same building just have individual studios and offices. The same principal applies to their transmission antennas that are shared on one tower.

@Galactipod 6 жыл бұрын

4:30 So the EBS interupts every radio and television station in the country for a tornado warning? They say it's an EAN, a nationwide alert.

@aetd106 6 жыл бұрын

I believe that the EAN was the only alert that was to be given using the EBS, and after the false alarms in the 1970s they realised they could use the EBS for localised warnings. The EAN became the way to get the message out across a state or broadcast area, creating a "national" EAN network for the White House to use, and a smaller EAN network that could be used by operational areas. Under the EAS, however, messages were referred to specific areas (hence Specific Area Message Encoding [SAME]) and the EAN is only used for Presidential interruption.

@KingThrillgore 6 жыл бұрын

The EAN is specifically for Presidential use. If used, it's bad. As is, cut the feed bad.

@michaellovely6601 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact about the Emergency Broadcast System: the only time that it was ever activated at the statewide level was during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. This is what the announcement said: "This is the Los Angeles County emergency broadcast system. This is not a test! The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is now in full mobilization. All off-duty Sheriff's deputies are directed to contact their unit of assignment as soon as possible or contact the nearest Los Angeles County Sheriff's facility. Due to the escalation of the situation and the seriousness of the problems that are occurring; the Sheriff has mobilized all department personell. The curfew has been extended to include the entire Los Angeles city limits; and to include Los Angeles County boundaries of Vernon Avenue on the north, Lomeda Boulevard on the south, Crenshaw Boulevard on the west, and the Long Beach freeway on the east. The California Army National Guard has been deployed to assist the Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department to restore law and order and to protect life and property. This concludes this activation of the Los Angeles County Emergency Broadcast System."

@Galactipod 2 жыл бұрын

@@aetd106 Yes.

@Joshuadrooney 11 жыл бұрын

The EBS stopped working before that date, and was replaced by the EAS. To have launched the EAS, would have taken valuable time and would have been redundant in any case as the entire world was watching the event on rolling news, and presumably all radio stations would have been carrying the news.

@DanTheMan1985ful 2 жыл бұрын

Different name, SAME concept.

@eddievhfan1984 Жыл бұрын

@@DanTheMan1985ful I see what you did there...

@squidiskool 3 жыл бұрын

🤩

@ojkalala 11 жыл бұрын

Remember when TV's had dials, lol

@michaellovely6601 3 жыл бұрын

Even in 1990; televisions could be operated by remote control.

@2tjanthony 11 жыл бұрын

George bush sr sounds like Jack Nicholson on this video

@Radiosutch Жыл бұрын

He looks like Ron Burgundy , LOL !😂

@ThePoreproductions 10 жыл бұрын

Does the EAS system work similarly? or the same way, only better and broader?

@DrummingMoose 10 жыл бұрын

It does in some ways, such as the script was changed. Also, another alert tone was added. Look up the National EAS Test from November 9th, 2011

@ThePoreproductions 10 жыл бұрын

That other alert tone is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee e e, then the ebs tone.

@JakobHill 10 жыл бұрын

ThePoreproductions The three bursts at the beginning and end of the message are basically data bursts. They have information like what the alert is and when it was issued. The attention signal is just to scare you.

@DrummingMoose 10 жыл бұрын

+Jakob Hill They have it because it gets peoples attention. I think they shouldn't have used the attention signal when they did tests back in the day.

@DrummingMoose 10 жыл бұрын

Cool. I've never understood how it works in the grand schemes of things

@unfocusedfr 3 ай бұрын

“10,000 times” Yeah, with most of them being tests.

@brycelandon6387 5 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. to Bush 41, who passed away on 11-30-2018.

@hey_buddy_waz_up 5 жыл бұрын

He was a piece of shit. I'm sure the snake is rotting in hell.

@TTFNG063 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Rest in peace.

@foxman362 4 жыл бұрын

Bush He let my friends and family stave in hurricane andrew during aftermath in homestead for a week also he lied to american people about they never told the real death counts on hurricane andrew and thats why bush loss back in 1992 because of hurricane andrew.

@izzystar5904 3 жыл бұрын

HW Bush was an accomplice to Ronnie Raygun

@KingThrillgore 3 жыл бұрын

We will look fondly on Bush 41 and 43 after what we endured the last five years

@LMMediaGroup 10 жыл бұрын

Haha, never noticed that! Mr. Rogers was MUCH cooler, though! (Love your TARDIS avatar, btw!)

@ericzerkle5214 4 жыл бұрын

They still use the tone alert here during severe weather season..........

@DanTheMan1985ful 4 жыл бұрын

Well of course they still use that S.A.M.E. tone. That's why it's called the "Attention Signal" to get your attention. They're NOT broadcasting it to annoy you, they broadcast it so that may save some lives and property.

@ericzerkle5214 4 жыл бұрын

@@DanTheMan1985ful Ok. Well I'm not a siren geek so I dont know much about them. All I know is the ones here are loud as a mother fucker.

@newstarcadefan 3 жыл бұрын

@@ericzerkle5214 Well...i can tell you straight up that if left the tv on at 4 or 5 a.m. (and if you were a light sleeper) you would shoot up like a rocket when they do the RMTs at night.

@benjaminmullin96 11 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one that thinks President Bush Sr. sounds a lot like Mr. Rogers?

@almostfm 7 жыл бұрын

Dana Carvey said that when he did Bush Sr. on SNL, he based it on a mix of Mr. Rogers and John Wayne.

@Satoshi9801 8 жыл бұрын

I doubt the EBS/EAS is that voluntary. Wouldn't the FCC yank away their licenses if the stations didn't do the tests?

@JakeBechtold 8 жыл бұрын

+Satoshi9801 You can petition to the FCC to opt out of EAS, but you are then required to go off the air any time there is a national notification. This still requires you to have EAS gear to correctly monitor LP1s, and you still have to log everything that comes in, at which point you may as well just participate. So while EAS is technically voluntary, you are correct in that it really isn't.

@johnwbyrd 7 жыл бұрын

I imagine the FCC had to tiptoe because of the First Amendment. In a purely legal sense, it's a short-term government takeover of free press. So the government had to make it clear that it's "voluntary cooperation" while at the same time making it clear that "you better goddamned well carry EBS." Everyone played nice because it's clearly intended to save lives.

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 5 жыл бұрын

Satoshi9801 Listen to the text. It says that the system was DEVELOPED in voluntary cooperation with the federal government.

@dantheelevatorman1 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the EBS days. If you did not test the EBS on a regular basis, you could lose your license.

@ApartmentKing66 4 жыл бұрын

Well, it's a bit a "catch 22," in fact, a few of them. The EBS script said "in voluntary cooperation," blah blah blah, but if an FCC inspector came a callin', the first thing he'd do is make the operator on duty run an EAS/EBS test. The test was to run once per week between 9am and 5pm local time, later changed to whenever. If your logging showed you weren't running them, or your operator didn't know how to run one, the station got either warned or fined, depending on whether it was recurring or one-time. It's voluntary, all right...just like paying income taxes is "voluntary." Somebody should've told Al Capone that paying taxes was "voluntary." The whole EAS/EBS thing is a next to a joke anyway because the president uses the national networks to address the country. The EAS is pretty much only used for bad weather like storms and floods, earthquakes, tornados, etc.

@Elijahkylesombillo Жыл бұрын

17:38 22:10

@jpnoll1781 4 жыл бұрын

4 minutes of "back patting" as an introduction? Sheesh!

@michaellovely6601 4 жыл бұрын

You have to understand that this was the norm in 1990.

@TheDoctor1225 3 жыл бұрын

More like 4 minutes of giving appropriate thanks to the people who helped with and made the video, and also of getting the point across of why it's important you watch this instead of blowing it off.

@KingThrillgore 3 жыл бұрын

This video had to be shown to execs first who were clueless.

@johnwilder3356 Ай бұрын

I used to be scared of this thing

@Srd1126 11 жыл бұрын

Can't believe how young Bush looks there

@EddieMillerStudios 6 жыл бұрын

He's 93 years old now.

@brycelandon6387 5 жыл бұрын

@@EddieMillerStudios He's dead now. 🙁

@EddieMillerStudios 5 жыл бұрын

Sadly, yes he is. R.I.P. 1924-2018

@goiabexp Жыл бұрын

And yet he would've been 66

@billybassman21 10 жыл бұрын

Here in Houston I only saw a couple of low powered stations ever use EBS or EAS for anything other than test. Most stations have used their own alerting system for weather alerts since the 70s and deliver the alters faster than EAS. The whole EAS/EBS system seemed pointless to me. I think if there was a nuclear attack or another disaster of epic proportions the president would get on the major networks with video and not be talking through a CB microphone. I mean its a cool concept in theory, but too complicated to get the messages out to everyone.

@visaman 9 жыл бұрын

Not if regular radio stations were off the air due to the radiation blasts from an atomic bomb. The president would be in a bunker, like our Prime Minister built in the late '50s that has recently been decommissioned.

@billybassman21 9 жыл бұрын

But if the radio and TV stations were down the message wouldn't get out to too many people anyway. EAS uses Private TV and radio boradcast. I just don't see Obama talking on a CB mic in a bunker to the American people and that message getting out nationwide. The EAS test they did a couple of years ago failed. Imagine if broadcast equipment was heavily damaged.

@visaman 9 жыл бұрын

billybassman21 Not with the current system, no, but under the old Comolrad system...

@MattbaitIkea 8 жыл бұрын

+Monsieur Wright Jamie Barnett, the former Chief executive of the FCC said the Nationwide Test of the EAS got to 90% of the public. The 10% were the ones that experienced all the glitches. The goal WAS to see if it would reach everyone, but their other goal was to seek out every bug in the system and find a way to resolve all the issues before the Coordinators decide on a Second National Test. This is just what I learned when I did research for a Civil Defense Presentation, so I could be wrong.

@MattbaitIkea 8 жыл бұрын

+Albert Giesbrecht CONELRAD also had its bugs due to the infamous "Stress Test" (equipment failure, signal hijacking, transmission failure, etc.). The only way they could test the system was by issuing annual drills, where everyone in the nation had to quickly move to the nearest community Fallout Shelter or get to the lowest part of their home until the Drill was over. It was also the one time the streets of New York were actually quiet. XD Anyways, CONELRAD became obsolete due to the creation of the I.C.B.M., along with the fact that every station in the nation attempting to "pile on" to two Emergency Networks caused MAJOR issues with even getting any transmission out. Signal bouncing at 15 second intervals was also a problem, because if the signal bounced to a radio station in Maine and you're in California, you'd either receive no signal or get an extremely distorted voice.

@LuigiGodzillaGirl 10 жыл бұрын

With the amount of time it took to get the word out, it would be too late for some viewers.

@getyerkix 4 жыл бұрын

LuigiGodzillaGirl The whole thing would be too late you don’t recover from a full scale of nuclear war. There’s no way

@DanTheMan1985ful 3 жыл бұрын

0:00, THIS IS A TEST AND TRAINING. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY MINUTES, THIS VIDEO WILL BE CONDUCTING A TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM (NOW EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM). THIS IS ONLY A TEST AND TRAINING. 29:31, THIS WAS A TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. THE BROADCASTERS OF YOUR AREA IN VOLUNTARY COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE DEVELOPED THIS SYSTEM AND TRAINING TO KEEP YOU INFORMED IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY. IF THIS HAD BEEN AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY, THE ATTENTION SIGNAL YOU JUST HEARD AND VIDEO TRAINING YOU JUST SAW WOULD'VE BEEN FOLLOWED BY OFFICIAL INFORMATION, NEWS, OR INSTRUCTION. THIS VIDEO SERVES THE WORLD WIDE WEB OF THE KZfaq OPERATIONAL AREA. THIS CONCLUDES THE TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM.

@eascec8374 6 жыл бұрын

27:31 Now That is The EBS Test Slide for WPTF.

@getyerkix 4 жыл бұрын

Is it me or...her eyes?

@elgeneralxx 2 жыл бұрын

Im sorry but i can’t watch this at 3am

@benjaminmullin96 11 жыл бұрын

That's because the EBS had been defunct for 5 years on 9/11.

@Galactipod 7 жыл бұрын

The EBS was retired in the 90s.

@MinifigNewsguy 6 жыл бұрын

1997 if memory serves me

@michaellovely6601 4 жыл бұрын

@@MinifigNewsguy You're right. The Emergency Alert System was launched in 1997. And for those who wonder why the Emergency Alert System wasn't activated at the National level on 9/11; it's because of the fact that the attacks on both the World Trade Center complex in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, VA were being covered on the three major national morning news programs: "Good Morning America" on ABC, the "Today" show on NBC, and "The Early Show" on CBS.

@user-jt5vm3mi1w Жыл бұрын

yeah no

@ThePoreproductions 8 жыл бұрын

Does the EAS system post notifications on Facebook?

@skylar_gray 8 жыл бұрын

No.

@ThePoreproductions 8 жыл бұрын

***** What? Why?

@skylar_gray 8 жыл бұрын

If you find someone that posts EAS alerts in your area, you can use that as a substitute. If you have a smartphone, some alerts will be relayed as a text message. The tone would sound like the EBS tone stopped and repeated.

@johnwbyrd 7 жыл бұрын

Because it's too easy to fake the sources on Facebook. EAS has a long chain of source authentication and verification from source to destination. Facebook is a mess of everyone pretending to be everyone else. Also, to be fair, because the FCC is extremely underfunded and understaffed.

@KingThrillgore 6 жыл бұрын

There are systems in place to integrate EAS alerts on websites but they require agreements with FEMA and other vendors. Typically these services are used by Emergency Management Associations. Nobody is being forced into it, and with the ubiquitous support of Wireless Emergency Alerts, I would argue there's no point. Google does use these services through their Google.org arm.

@grcboy29 11 жыл бұрын

It's sad when the country needed it most (9/11) that the EBS was never activated on any TV or radio station.

@Galactipod 7 жыл бұрын

The EBS was decommissioned LONG before then. It's the EAS you're thinking of. The government didn't activate the EAS because the news was doing a good job for once.

@KingThrillgore 6 жыл бұрын

The news media has been surprisingly effective in the past two decades. The EAS is pretty much only useful for local alerts and theoretically if the President needs to make a statement. There's also Wireless Emergency Alerts that are sent to all mobile phones on an opt-in (excluding Presidential alerts) basis.

@blackhawks81H 5 жыл бұрын

The country didn't need it most, guy from 6 years ago. By the time anyone knew what was actually happening, it was already on every TV channel with live video coverage. Interrupting live video with an EAS screen that was texy only would habe provided much LESS information for everyone watching.

@DanTheMan1985ful 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the news beat the EAS to the punch that day. And it didn't take long for it to make headlines.

@straightpipediesel 8 ай бұрын

EBS/EAS "presidential" and "national messages" are for full-scale nuclear attacks. Look at EAN message 2, it straight out declares an attack has been detected. They only got rid of the explicit attack warning after the 1971 accidental EBS activation. While 9/11 was very bad, it did not rise to the level of a nuclear attack. Therefore, activation wasn't needed, nor carried out.