Re: Massachusetts Amber Alert

[Tony Abruzzese <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>]

Garrett Wollman wrote:

><<On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:26:04 -0400, "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com> said:
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>>One major hole that needs to be addressed is NESN as this time of year 
>>it is on many nights the most watched station in the Boston market.
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>Cable systems can and should (and I believe are supposed to) use a
>cherrypicker to insert EAS alerts into their data streams on all
>channels.
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According to a friend who was watching the Sox game on NESN,  Comcast 
did indeed break into the game with the Amber Alert. As was reported 
here in an earlier posting, my friend said that the alert was on all of 
the channels  that he flipped through.

Tony