![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nov. 9th, 2011
No coup today
Nov. 9th, 2011 11:55 pmToday's national EAS test, the first ever test of FEMA's ability to take over all the radio and TV stations in the U.S. in an emergency, was a great big flop.
This is the test as it was received at my old college station, WHRB in Cambridge, MA. This appears to be the way the test was originally sent from Washington, DC; some stations received only the first seven seconds, and a great many got nothing but silence. In some parts of the country the test never reached any local stations.
The wingnuts are hyping it as an embarrassment for President Obama; on a recording made at one of my Rhode Island client's stations, the voice of a talk show host at an upstream station can be heard remarking, "if this were a national emergency, we are toast!".
This is the test as it was received at my old college station, WHRB in Cambridge, MA. This appears to be the way the test was originally sent from Washington, DC; some stations received only the first seven seconds, and a great many got nothing but silence. In some parts of the country the test never reached any local stations.
The wingnuts are hyping it as an embarrassment for President Obama; on a recording made at one of my Rhode Island client's stations, the voice of a talk show host at an upstream station can be heard remarking, "if this were a national emergency, we are toast!".