[EAS] 2021 Best NPT presentation by a TV station WCVB Boston

[Ted Langdell]

Thanks for sharing that, Sean.

Wow! Quite a difference comparing WCVB's visual presentation to the other stations. 

In this and other clips, I've seen a lot of fluorescent green top-third stripes with hart do read white lettering.  The station that used Black worked MUCH better. 

The audio re-broadcast on all stations seems to be uniformly noisy with lots of compression over several "hops." :(. 

Ted Langdell
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>On Aug 13, 2021, at 8:26 AM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>Instead of EAS problems, how about the best 2021 NPT presentation by a TV station I found so far. I only considered the parts under the control of the station, not any problems with audio from the daisy-chain.

>Yes, its possible to make EAS look pretty.  You don't need to make EAS look like a bad 1980s graphic generator.

>WCVB TV-5 Boston

>https://youtu.be/dwpMMXXuxkw?t=147

>Correctly replaced the program audio (not ducking audio) with emergency audio

>Readable text crawl

>Message not cut-off

>Nice graphic push of program video and composition of onscreen graphic elements during the test.

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