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Good video! I'll take this into my next life.

I used to be scared of this thing

Nobody better than Fred Winston. I listened to him since his earliest days on WLS. Now, I am amazed at the wonderful pictures he posts on Instagram. A real down to earth talent.

“10,000 times” Yeah, with most of them being tests.

Interesting how the Emergency Alert System, successor to the EBS, basically took all the procedures that were done using humans and checklists and automated them. So cool to trace things back to their roots

There so many components to the ebs system

Idk if it’s just me, but with this specific recording, it’s not the graphic that scares me, it’s the tape damage. It makes the reporter’s face look really distorted.

I bet Emergency Alert System has these Checklist just like did EBS

Hell yes! She won!!!

How does a station like this turn into a "Polish National" station??? OMG the tragedy. 😞

I have seen videos on VHS, Betamax, then on the internet on how local broadcasters operate during local, state, and federal emergencies. EAN, EBS, Messages are broadcasted many times during a year for weather (tornado, floods, hurricanes, severe storms), toxic spills, missing children, and many other emergencies. I have worked as a DJ and broadcast engineer at five radio stations in the north, central, and southern radio stations. I have observed the long formulation of the EBS system over 30 years and tell you that it is a dependable and believable notification system. I remember the storm of Spring '93 when 4' of snow fell on Franklin, NC and I was trapped at work in WFLC/WRFR for five days. We passed many EBS messages to Macon County during that time. Unfortunately, the people didn't obey the advisory to not use their phones unless it was an emergency and as the power to the switching stations was gone, the batteries at the same switching and trunk stations didn't last but 48 hours, isolating many elderly people from help. Many people died of exposure because they couldn't call for help. When requested, do not use your phone unless it is really is an emergency! You could have been the ones that were exposed to the withering cold without any hope of rescue.

Just a fantastic jock in Chicago, I wish he would be a teamed with Gary Bryan who also worked in Chicago at WDHF-FM/WMET 95.5FM who is the morning jock on KRTH-101.1 in Los Angeles. KRTH is number one in LA , but with Fred Winston the station would be in otta space if Fred would be on board.

It's honestly a wonder to have such history still at hand, preserved... To see what was, and where we've come from.

yeah no

John F. Kennedy had started the Emergency Broadcast Action Notification System, back in 1962 during the Cold War Era of the Cuban Missile Crisis!

7:07 Bit of trivia to the viewers. Laurel Smith, the woman seen here, chose to resign as general manager of WQDR in 1991 after she received a number of sexual assault allegations from fellow employees. This also prompted Durham Life to leave the broadcasting industry. Despite the issues going on behind the scene, this was a pretty well presented training video. It captures the late 1980s to early 1990s broadcasting scene and how stations handled EBS alerts. Of course, the EAS nowadays is all automatic and we receive them in a more timely matter than the old EBS system.

Oh, how I yearn for the days of Conelrad.

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It seems like the EAS would be much faster and automatic

🤣 I love how he flips on the emergency tone with physical style and flair.

He looks like Ron Burgundy , LOL !😂

The EBS saves lives? All this time I thought it was just to broadcast messages that say "this is only a test, "BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP"! And of course, "this concludes our test."

Back in 1990, the Youngstown, Ohio-area CPCS1 station for Emergency Broadcast System test was Radio 57 WKBN (now Newsradio 570 WKBN).

Im sorry but i can’t watch this at 3am

Wow it was a party, someone send me back in time plz

There is computer equipment that does it all now. No need to record from the phone ? Or am I wrong ?

Yes. Voluntary. Riiiiiight.

I got a chuckle watching this. Just about everybody’s eyes are focused above or below the camera, and their eyes are ‘scanning’, as if reading a book. 😆 As for the EBS topic, I LOVE to reminisce those days. I worked hand-in-hand with county officials regarding Civil Defense. My father’s private business had one of those yellow and black CD signs on the front of the building, as the basement was built with very thick cement walls and ceiling.

Did George McFly finished his gig at Z-104 in Washington DC and then came to 92.7 Kiss FM. Help me out Mr Love Incorporated ;-)

Oddity Archive needs to riff this.

That voice!

0:00, THIS IS A TEST AND TRAINING. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY MINUTES, THIS VIDEO WILL BE CONDUCTING A TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM (NOW EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM). THIS IS ONLY A TEST AND TRAINING. 29:31, THIS WAS A TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. THE BROADCASTERS OF YOUR AREA IN VOLUNTARY COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE DEVELOPED THIS SYSTEM AND TRAINING TO KEEP YOU INFORMED IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY. IF THIS HAD BEEN AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY, THE ATTENTION SIGNAL YOU JUST HEARD AND VIDEO TRAINING YOU JUST SAW WOULD'VE BEEN FOLLOWED BY OFFICIAL INFORMATION, NEWS, OR INSTRUCTION. THIS VIDEO SERVES THE WORLD WIDE WEB OF THE RUclips OPERATIONAL AREA. THIS CONCLUDES THE TEST AND TRAINING OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM.

OPEN HOUSE PARTYYYYYYYY sorry thanks for posting, I was very young when this came out and open house party was a staple in my bedroom --- John's voice is burned in my head and I thank him for my everlasting love of pop music. hahaha

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Its quite a slow process to interrupt a program with a human in the middle. Now i understand why they switched to the automatic EAS

Is it me or...her eyes?

One of the greatest voices on radio of all time, combined with a very odd but hysterical sense of humor. When you combine the two you get perfection. One of the all-time greats.

4 minutes of "back patting" as an introduction? Sheesh!

They still use the tone alert here during severe weather season..........

Wow he's got a great set of pipes on him g-wiz

89 DMZ... MANILA!

I LOVE FRED WINSTON! Miss him on ole WLS 890 AM.

I would say “Chadtronic needs to see this!”, but after seeing that his RUclips videos are being screened, I don’t think it’s worth it right now

R.I.P. to Bush 41, who passed away on 11-30-2018.

They got an important detail wrong: an emergency action notification is only used as a presidential alert, especially to alert the country of a nuclear attack during the Cold War.

This entire thing is acronym soup. Given how the EAS failed nationally a few years ago, I wonder if the European model of using air raid sirens with their (usually) state-owned news channels would fair. That being said wireless alerts work. Probably better than any EAS message.

Hi Chris, I remember you when you and Larson hosted a morning show in Phoenix, AZ on 93.3 FM KDKB many years ago. Did you know Fred Winston worked at 1360 KRUX in Phoenix on his way to the Windy City? Thanks for posting this.

27:31 Now That is The EBS Test Slide for WPTF.

Until the Feds began testing the EAS nationwide in 2011, the country was lucky to not ever had to deal with any serious emergency, as the EAS had many fails left and right. If that was bad, imagine how much worse such test or EAN was done on a national level. *imagine listening to Madonna on a C-band dish of an EBS test* :oP

4:30 So the EBS interupts every radio and television station in the country for a tornado warning? They say it's an EAN, a nationwide alert.