Re: Massachusetts Amber Alert

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

They didn't on the Arlington/Cambridge headend, first time I saw the 
alert was on WCVB

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 2:51PM -0500, Tony Abruzzese wrote:
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> Garrett Wollman wrote:
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>> <<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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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