[BC] Re: EAS

Douglas Pritchett radiofool at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 17:15:09 CDT 2009


Ah, the infamous "dry cleaing emergency statewide alert"!
For our friend who don't understand, it's a Mississippi "thing". If
you're not named McRaney or related, you ain't sh**.
-- 
Douglas B. "You Ain't From Around Here Are You, Yankee-boy?" Pritchett
( I escaped in 1976 )
radiofool at gmail.com

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Larry Fuss <lfuss2 at cox.net> wrote:

> Perhaps  the most famous EAS screw-up was when
> WMSI sent a RMT along with a 30-second spot for a dry cleaner in Jackson.  Since
> it was a RMT, it was relayed statewide, at least on those stations that had
> auto-forwarding turned on.  EAS in Mississippi has gotten no better since then.
>
> LF




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