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does anybody have more information on what these "emergency alert tones" are? is it talking about tones on specific frequencies that trigger some sort of speci

does anybody have more information on what these "emergency alert tones" are? is it talking about tones on specific frequencies that trigger some sort of special handling of the broadcast, or is it simply that they used a siren sound in an advertisment?

teeray 2y ago
It’s the three crunchy-sounding SAME tones you hear before an emergency alert broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding
wrs 2y ago
Example at 0:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew In addition to being a very distinctive interruption in regular programming (somewhat panic-inducing if you grew up in the 1980s thinking an ICBM could arrive at any moment), there are weather/emergency radios that will automatically turn on when they hear the tones. Edit: Actually we 1980s kids are more susceptible to the old two-tone EAS Attention Signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_system.ogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_syste...
- dmonitor 2y ago
  They played those tones? That's incredibly reckless. They're still frequently used on television broadcasts to warn about dangerous storms (hurricanes, etc)
- zoklet-enjoyer 2y ago
  That's the sound of summer
  - dylan604 2y ago
    Because there's no such thing as climate change, we get those earlier in spring, and even into winter (Boxing Day tornado in 2015). So no longer just the sound of summer
- dylan604 2y ago
  From my faded memory, I thought they were referred to as Emergency Broadcasting System[0]. The 90s memories confuse it with Emergency Broadcast Network[1]. Not exactly the same thing though [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network
riffic 2y ago
wikipedia does

teeray 2y ago

It’s the three crunchy-sounding SAME tones you hear before an emergency alert broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding

wrs 2y ago

Example at 0:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcs1EuBfew In addition to being a very distinctive interruption in regular programming (somewhat panic-inducing if you grew up in the 1980s thinking an ICBM could arrive at any moment), there are weather/emergency radios that will automatically turn on when they hear the tones. Edit: Actually we 1980s kids are more susceptible to the old two-tone EAS Attention Signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_system.ogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergency_broadcast_syste...

dmonitor 2y ago
They played those tones? That's incredibly reckless. They're still frequently used on television broadcasts to warn about dangerous storms (hurricanes, etc)
zoklet-enjoyer 2y ago
That's the sound of summer
- dylan604 2y ago
  Because there's no such thing as climate change, we get those earlier in spring, and even into winter (Boxing Day tornado in 2015). So no longer just the sound of summer
dylan604 2y ago
From my faded memory, I thought they were referred to as Emergency Broadcasting System[0]. The 90s memories confuse it with Emergency Broadcast Network[1]. Not exactly the same thing though [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network

riffic 2y ago

wikipedia does