[BC] EAS alert tones in movie preview ad

[Broadcast List USER]

A movie in a theater, on your VCR or your DVD player is not over the  
air.

The problem I have is when it is on cable.  It may be legal, but it  
isn't right.

--chip

On Nov 10, 2010, at 11:17 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> From: Alan Peterson <alanpeterson at earthlink.net>
>
> On the topic, remember the 1983 made-for-TV movie "The Day After",  
> about a nuclear attack on America?  There was a scene where the old  
> two-tone EBS signals were heard over a car radio in the body of the  
> movie, apparently to no ill effect in the real world.
>
> As its been many years since I've seen the movie, I'd like to know  
> how they were able to get around the regulation -- did they pitch  
> the tones up or down, or just not play the signal long enough to  
> actually trip decoders? The implication in the story line was that  
> they were "EBS tones" and would be recognized (or at least  
> perceived) as such by the viewing audience. So how did they do that?
>
> -AP