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CBS defended the statement, saying that the tones' usage was a "dramatic portrayal", and that it was an "integral part of the storyline about a family's visceral reaction to a life-threatening emergency". The show's sound editors achieved the effect by downloading EAS tones from YouTube and modifying the volume of the tone.
National Emergency Messages are treated the same as any other message transmitted over the Emergency Alert System, except that stations are required to relay them. [2] When a message is received, the receiver is to open an audio channel to the originating source until the End of Message (EOM) tones are received.
The Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS) is an information distribution system that utilizes existing digital television spectrum and towers to provide information in emergency situations using rich media. The system can push text, web pages, and video to compatible equipment, such as mobile DTV devices.
ESPN faces a proposed FCC fine for using an emergency alert tone in a promo ad. Using this tone is out of bounds - it's a public safety hazard to confuse or desensitize viewers to actual emergency ...
ATTENTION! THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY SIREN SYSTEM. THIS IS ONLY A TEST!” The message repeated a few more times and followed by a steady 3-minute alert tone. Testings concluded with another male message (the same voice) that said “ATTENTION! ATTENTION! TESTING OF THE EMERGENCY SIREN SYSTEM IS COMPLETE. PLEASE REGARD ANY FURTHER ALARMS.”
The attention signal is an 8-second sequence of alternating half-second duration complex tones, the first being a combination of tones at frequencies of 932.33 Hz, 1,046.5 Hz and 3,135.96 Hz, and the second at 440 Hz, 659.26 Hz and 3135.96 Hz (the same signal that is used by Alberta Emergency Alert).
FEMA-provided audio file of the SAME alert header, followed by the combined 853 Hz and 960 Hz Warning Alert Tone, followed by the SAME end-of-message (EOM) tone All U.S. and Canadian stations transmit SAME codes a few seconds before the 1,050 Hz attention tone that allows more advanced receivers to respond only for certain warnings that carry a ...
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