[BC] EAS alert tones in movie preview ad

[Craig Bowman]

DUH, that was the point of the darn duck farts to begin with!  They are 
not an attention signal for the listener they are data for passing along 
information to stations down the line, period.  If the data could have 
been sent silently they would have.  One of the goals of EAS was to do 
away with the lengthy EBS tests.  So, when someone runs a test which is 
completely unannounced who does it alert?  C'mon I know things are slow 
but jeezzzzzzeeeeeee.

Craig Bowman
Bowman Engineering
Local HDTV, Inc.
989-277-8835

On 11/9/2010 12:07 PM, ed.czarnecki at comcast.net wrote:
> I think Barry posted the winning answer.  Devalue or desensitize, people will learn pretty quickly to tune out when the tone are played....
>
> Ed Czarnecki
> Monroe Electronics/ Digital Alert Syatema
> Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless
>
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Barry Mishkind<barry at oldradio.com>