Help - what did NPR's Michelle Norris say on Tweety this am
rosesaylavee
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Sun May-28-06 11:30 AM
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Help - what did NPR's Michelle Norris say on Tweety this am |
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STrangest thing on Chicago NBC - on the segment on Chris Matthews show - Tell me something we don't know, NBC chose to run a banner across the top of the screen "TESTING the Emergency Broadcast system" ... Just paranoid enough to think that maybe Michelle had something interesting enough to say that they cut her off with a trumped up test... which I have never seen before and have lived in the area most of my life.
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Sun May-28-06 11:38 AM
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1. Those tests come at the oddest times. Don't put any |
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significance to the timing.
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rosesaylavee
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Sun May-28-06 11:42 AM
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2. We have had a long series of severe weather the last |
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several weeks - its not like they don't use the system at least once a week for an actual storm... just damn weird we thought.
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Sun May-28-06 11:44 AM
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Edited on Sun May-28-06 11:45 AM by alfredo
Go to NPR's site to see if there are audio's of the segment you are asking about. What show was it?
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Sun May-28-06 11:46 AM
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4. Understood. But tests were once put |
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on between shows - like a commercial.
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alfredo
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Sun May-28-06 01:26 PM
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7. That was back when TV was a public service. |
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Now it is about selling products and right wing philosophy. The shows are only loss leaders.
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salvorhardin
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Sun May-28-06 11:47 AM
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5. It's likely their EAS Encoder software or equipment |
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Automatically runs the required weekly test at a random time. Those EAS tests are logged too, IIRC, which would make it hard for an operator to run an EAS test as a way of censoring part of a broadcast.
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Sun May-28-06 11:54 AM
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6. Ok. I will stop hyperventilating. Thanks. |
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