Re: Massachusetts Amber Alert

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 02:48 PM 8/8/2003, Tony Abruzzese wrote:
>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


It's not NESN that runs the crawl or whatever, it's the cable 
provider.  You mentioned Comcast but is it the Boston Comcast, the 
Brookline Comcast, the Cambridge Comcast, etc etc etc?   These are all 
separate networks, even though they're all O&O by Comcast.

I should've mentioned, I was watching at my house in Brighton, which is on 
the Boston Comcast network (the old Boston Cablevision one).   I didn't see 
any crawl, but now that I think about it, once I was making calls trying to 
help WZBC, I stopped watching so a followup Amber Alert could've played and 
I would've missed it.  There was more than one I'd assume...they're 
supposed to be every 30 minutes until the child is found or until four 
hours passes, after which traditional media methods are assumed to have 
taken up the story)

I did hear the actual EAS alert on WZBC (probably the second one) and I 
heard WZLX and WBUR announcing it manually.  A friend who also works at 
WZBC said she heard it on WBCN and saw it on Channel 5 TV (she lives in 
Cambridge...dunno if she has cable TV).



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