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RE: EAS

It was on all except 2 of the cable channels at once...it even killed the local message channels and the local access channels so it HAD to be transmitted at the cable co's headend.

- -g.f.

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From: 	Shawn Mamros[SMTP:mamros@MIT.EDU]
Sent: 	Tuesday, January 12, 1999 4:09 PM
To: 	Gary F
Cc: 	boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: 	Re: EAS 

>At 1:15pm MediaOne interrupted most (not all, New England Cable News and
>HBO were unaffected) channels for a LONG EAS test - first the three short
>tone bursts - then three long bursts of 3 different tones each - followed
>by a totally unintelligible message in a female voice - sounded like it
>came from underwater!  [...]

I doubt it was MediaOne that did it.  If MediaOne is relaying broadcast
stations, then it would be the individual broadcast stations that have
to monitor EAS, not MediaOne.  That explains why non-broadcast channels
such as NECN and HBO are unaffected.

BTW, WBMX is the primary EAS originating station for Massachusetts, not
WBZ.  WBZ used to be the primary, but that had to have been over 15 years
ago.

- -Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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