[BC] EAS alert tones in movie preview ad

[Tom Spencer]

Some of the stations here have a workaround that seems to address Rich's 
objections -

a TEST is front-announced - "This is a test of the Emergency Alert 
System", followed by the duck farts.  nothing else is said; after the 
EOM, it's right back to programming.

an ALERT may or may not be pre-announced - but the header data burst is 
followed by the old dual-tone attention signal, followed by an announcer 
with the body of the alert (usually the guy/gal who's on the news desk, 
but occasionally the show host or the contracted weather source)

Seems like that might be at least one solution...

Rich Wood wrote:
> ------ At 10:13 AM 11/9/2010, Barry Mishkind wrote: -------
>
>   
>> I believe there is an issue there in that it devalues the attention 
>> signal as to its importance - already a problem in many 
>> ways,  especially when stations do their weekly test by just running 
>> the data bursts and nothing else.
>>     
>
> As has been mentioned here, the tones are not attention signals. We 
> part company on the issue of identifying a test.

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Tom Spencer
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