[BC] RE: EAS

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:23 AM 10/16/2005, Gary Peterson wrote: -------

>A few years ago, on the first day of the spring book, our market's LP1 ran a
>RMT and inserted their jingle, with call letters and frequency, just before
>the EOM duck farts.  If it weren't for the waiting period, some of the PDs
>at my stations would have gone out and bought hand guns that morning.

I still love the first test of EAS in New York. I guess everyone 
hardwired the decoder to automatically take the program line. WQXR 
sent the test. Whoever sent it forgot to send the EOM. For a few 
minutes every engineer scrambled to get classical music off their air.

Rich