[BC] EAS Screwup

[Mike McCarthy]

In LV, a SVR is a serious emergency given their rareity and voracious 
nature of them as they come up over the nountains and sweep over the 
strip.  Unlike the storms here in the midwest where you can see/hear 
them coming a 1/2 hour off, you don't have that option if they come 
from any direction but over Lake Mead.  Which can be REALLY dangerous 
if you are not keeping an eye on the WX and are on thre west end of 
town.

That point makes it all the more important to have the system 
operating at best peak efficiency.

MM

> >We have had over a dozen alerts from Amber to NWS stuff over the
> last week.  In all cases except those cited above, the system worked 
fine.
> 
> Bill:
> 
> There was a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on Monday night as I was 
returning 
> from stuffing myself at a local buffet (that's why I moved to Las 
Vegas in 
> the first place).  One of the Infinity stations (the one with the 
really 
> lame air talent on 94.1) interrupted programming to air the header, 
followed 
> immediately by the EOM.  There was no accouncement whatsoever.  I 
quickly 
> flipped over to another Infinity station (the one on 100.5 that is 
terribly 
> over-modulated) and heard the entire announcement.  I flipped back 
and forth 
> to see if 94.1 ever said anything about the warning - they did not.
> 
> Also, the NOAA audio on 100.5 was terribly distorted.  As I was 
flipping 
> around the dial, I heard the very same announcement on another 
station (I 
> think it was KSNE) and it sounded fine.
> 
> The system may work, but if the individual stations don't do things 
> properly, then lives could be at stake.  If it had been a really 
serious 
> emergency, listeners to KMXB would have never known about it.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
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