This Wednesday at 2 PM Eastern time radio and TV stations will stop regular programming and conduct a 60 second test of the national Emergency Alert System. I am sure most of you heard these tests growing up, they go back to 1951.
I did hear the alert system once on the car radio while driving up the NJ Turnpike to North Jersey, it was for a major snow storm due to hit the following day, back in the early ninety's. The car was a Mazda RX-7, loved that car!
Above videos are past tests from WPIX and WCBS TV stations.
These TV tests remind me of simpler times growing up, a handful of TV channels, and great Saturday morning cartoons.
Good afternoon Jim, I can remember as a kid hearing "this is a test of the emergency broadcasting system....this is only a test" Then hearing this crazy tone for a minute or so.
ReplyDeleteHi Michael,
ReplyDeleteThat was a crazy tone come to think of it. These days I am surprised we do not hear it more.
Have a nice weekend- Jim