The fear was real, folks. The EBS tests and the civil defense sirens that were (and still are) tested on the second Tuesday of every month at noon, used to scare me as a kid.
The soundbite of President Reagan was actually from a speech he gave about six hours after the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch in January of 1986. Mr. Reagan had planned do deliver his annual State Of The Union speech that evening, but it was postponed a couple of weeks due to the tragedy.
Back in 1988, there were no television stations that used artificial voices to announce events because they weren't available yet. Same with the fax tones. The two-tone attention signal was used, but the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) would have been in existence at that time. Television and radio stations would not necessarily sign off the air, but they did in the original system under CONELRAD up until 1963.
Yes. The “fax tones” are SAME headers, which weren’t used until the EAS was introduced in 1997, and they would play three consecutive times. Same goes for the TTS voices, which were normally used for weather alerts.
Maybe there will be artificial voices that will sound very realistic in the future. We kinda have some of those currently, but this is a trial and error situation. Things will consistently change as time progresses.
Apparently the SAME Header Tones date back to 1985 a total 12 years before the EAS was put into the place the tones that we're all familiar with wasn't used until the implementation of the EAS in 1997
The SAME header (the tones in the beginning) didn't come into use until 1997 when the Emergency Alert System was adopted. The Emergency Broadcast System used the long attention tone
One caveat on this video. Channel One is NOT used by any broadcaster in the US. It is strictly used for emergencies, and in the event of a nuclear strike, it is used by the surviving members of the Presidency and Congress to continue the government. That was worked out after WWII. Besides no NTSC (American) tuner is even equipped with it. Standard VHF channels are 2 thru 13 and UHF channels are 14 thru 51. Now this was expanded to 14 to 83 (32 more added on the UHF band). Now it's digital and multiple sub channels now exist in addition to the primary. But no channel one.
"Ladies and gentlemen I planed to speak to you tonight about a report of restate of the union but do to the events of earlier today have led me to change that" that was from the challenger incident in 1986
This is pretty good… However, just for a historical note, In the 1980s alert tone that he heard, that long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Was the alert noise. No header tones like we get today. No text to speech voice either… The message would have been read by an announcer person Having said all that though, still really good lock up… Nice job Ps A lot of people find the tts creepy... Not me, I use it on a daily basis to access my phone and other things because I have terrible eyesight… The thing that really scares me is that long beeeeeeeep. Growing up in tornado alley in the 1980s when that came on you never knew was it a test or a new card or a tornado or what exactly For the first few terrifying second it’s c
I'd like to bring up that the announcer would not being saying "Please Stand By" while the SAME Tones are being broadcast. Those are relayed throughout the network, and the voices would interfere with the data the tones contain... Also, in 1988, the EBS would still be using the 1500 Hz tone, not the two-tone attention signal... That's from the newer EAS.
I do not know why but the words “THIS IS NOT A TEST” on the blue screen creeped me out. I guess it’s because I’ve only seen that screen for tests only, so it’s creepy having it say otherwise.
You know in one part of Stephen King's book the stand, the CBS Please Stand By screen is referenced in towards the end of the first act, in which everything begins to fall apart. This kind of gave me a visual of what the EBS would have done in a pandemic style event. Good job.
Alright so a lot of people have pointed out some stuff but there’s one I haven’t seen: Fox didn’t exist until the 90s, and Fox News didn’t exist until 1996.
and what makes this video more bone chilling is the cutoff from programing to the ebs broadcast, Thus the tones play 6 times. I used to have nightmares when I watched this. Good job:)
It's pretty fake because the EBS didn't use SAME headers until 1997, when EAS was introduced. Also, SAME headers are played only 3 times, not 6 times. And there wasn't a TTS voice until the EAS was introduced, too. It has to be a real announcer saying the message.
That's Reagan addressing the nation the same day as the challenger disaster occurred. I wasn't at school that day, heck I wasn't even born yet when it happened.
Why does the EBS have EAS tones? Why Does It Have 6 Headers? Why Is There A TTS voice? Why Are There More Headers In The Middle Of The Message? Why Does The EAS Even Exist In 1988 To Be Able To Have The Tones? Why is The Attention Tone Only 8 Seconds Instead Of The EBS 20 Seconds? All in All, This Is Most Likely meant to be a EAS Mock And Not A EBS Mock. The're Different.
My only gripe, and this is just me, is not knowing who were about to be nuked by, how many missiles might have been on the way, and where they might have been headed.
Same. A year ago I had a nightmare where the EAS came on. I asked my mother what was going on, and she said (I think) something about some alliance involving Russia and North Korea. The EAS screen began to glitch, presumably the System was being taken over by hackers from said countries.
This is kinda good and scary. But if you want the real way this would go down, the President wouldn't give the information. A computerized voice or the local television station would broadcast the information. The President would either be in breifings that monitor the situation or be escorted tonsafety himself. He wouldn't address the nation until later on that day if it was over. The only time a President addresses the nation while the situationis occuring is when it is something like the Cuban Missile Crisis, which went on for a week, or tge beginning of the Gulf War. Otherwise people are trying to get to safety and need the information rather than reassurance from the President.
When that Text to Speech voice says *PLEASE STAND BY* it's always damn creepy.
IKR!? I was so scared of it when I was 8. I'm 12 now. xD
***This is not a test***
I was none
@@leeloowheeler1282Same. This video scared me when I was younger too.
That’s The GoAnimate Julie Voice.
The fear was real, folks. The EBS tests and the civil defense sirens that were (and still are) tested on the second Tuesday of every month at noon, used to scare me as a kid.
michelledalenaa EAS tests are conducted every Wednesday between 11am and noon. (At least in Virginia)
Over here in East Texas, they test the sirens on the 3rd day every month at 11am. Actually enjoy that.
Typhoon Cooper so thats what i heard 22 days ago
Here I louisana they go off at 2:45am on the first thursday
FEMA sirens are not scary.And whoever thought of the old EBS alarm for Amber Alerts needs to be throat punched.
The soundbite of President Reagan was actually from a speech he gave about six hours after the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch in January of 1986. Mr. Reagan had planned do deliver his annual State Of The Union speech that evening, but it was postponed a couple of weeks due to the tragedy.
Omg
Yeah, I remember that. A teacher, Krista McAuliffe, was killed on that ill-fated flight
This would make a beautiful Fallout 4 trailer.
I was just thinking the same thing!
Ebs
Just send this to the creators of fallout and wait for their response
@Pam Martinez CONELRAD.
Retro Technology
They changed it. I don't know why they changed it to BMRF's website.
Back in 1988, there were no television stations that used artificial voices to announce events because they weren't available yet. Same with the fax tones. The two-tone attention signal was used, but the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) would have been in existence at that time. Television and radio stations would not necessarily sign off the air, but they did in the original system under CONELRAD up until 1963.
Imagine the TTS voices are actually human. Mock EBS scenarios like Jakob Hill's 1984 use this method.
Yes. The “fax tones” are SAME headers, which weren’t used until the EAS was introduced in 1997, and they would play three consecutive times. Same goes for the TTS voices, which were normally used for weather alerts.
Maybe there will be artificial voices that will sound very realistic in the future. We kinda have some of those currently, but this is a trial and error situation. Things will consistently change as time progresses.
Well you know, millennials
Even when the chemical plant blew up by me in 1982, we didn’t get an EBS alert. But we got warning sirens put in.
RIP Headphone Users...
Jeffery Earstein
Looks like Macdonalds ran out of chicken nuggets again
Oh shit not thAt!!!
McDonald's? MCDONALD$?! AHHHHH- sorry I'm hiper..... :(
Trevie Lambier I love you!
No, I'M Hyper!
no more chicken nuggets has the world gone mad!!!
The EBS never had SAME headers (the first 3 beeps). That came with the EAS.
@Chrisotopher Johnson then it wasn't the EBS
Apparently the SAME Header Tones date back to 1985 a total 12 years before the EAS was put into the place the tones that we're all familiar with wasn't used until the implementation of the EAS in 1997
This had six beeps
The EBS didn't have the EAS "buzzing sounds".
The Sounds Also Give Me Goosebumps.
I Am Autistic.
Zee Isthelastletter this is fictional, not real
Sawyer Ique
Same, but I still watch things like this.
-I think it's normal for autistic people to become obsessed with things that freak them out...?-
@@SawyerIque same, and I have AS so I am on the spectrum as well
@@Makycardia NAEGI MAKOTO?!
it was the way the alert looked that scared me for some reason...
I used to be scared of this
Everything about this scared me tbh
sdjndea thats because it looks pixel-y and gives an old TV vibe
The old civil defense shield WAS scary- especially the black and red variant.
The SAME header (the tones in the beginning) didn't come into use until 1997 when the Emergency Alert System was adopted. The Emergency Broadcast System used the long attention tone
The "Please Stand By" is just freaking creepy, when at high volume.
I'm fucking paranoid man I'm fucking paranoid.
+Jellyjamsox I swear why did I even watch this damn video in the first place.
+Arnav Sinha Roy because you were curious?
+Jellyjamsox pretty much :P
+Arnav Sinha Roy All of it is...
One caveat on this video. Channel One is NOT used by any broadcaster in the US. It is strictly used for emergencies, and in the event of a nuclear strike, it is used by the surviving members of the Presidency and Congress to continue the government. That was worked out after WWII.
Besides no NTSC (American) tuner is even equipped with it. Standard VHF channels are 2 thru 13 and UHF channels are 14 thru 51. Now this was expanded to 14 to 83 (32 more added on the UHF band). Now it's digital and multiple sub channels now exist in addition to the primary. But no channel one.
This is still one of the best scary eas scenarios on youtube. Short, sweet, to the point and leaves you in sense of dread
"Ladies and gentlemen I planed to speak to you tonight about a report of restate of the union but do to the events of earlier today have led me to change that" that was from the challenger incident in 1986
Emergency broadcast system. It's really scary. I had a nightmare about it.
:-(
Miguel Oseguera same
I Feel Bad For You With That Nightmare, On December 2016, I Couldn’t Sleep Because Of The Beeping Noise.
IT'S FAKE DUDE!!! IM NOT LYING!!!
No.
But In Reality. It Does. Makes Me A Little.
Loud Why EBS
They only used attention tones in EBS broadcasts. They did not use header tones in EBS alerts.
The EAS only has 3 tones not EBS
Me: Read Warning Head Phone Users
*Oh ok*
My ears:
Ight ama Head out
I find stuff like this scary.
Me too
Me too
me too
Me too! :,( and the beeps! I HATE IT SOOOO MUCH I just wanted to jump in my TV break all the words and TELL DA BEEPIN NOISE TA SHUT UP!!!!!!
I did when I was little
i see why it was replaced with the Emergency Alert System
***** no, hes american, delta force
Faz Yusuf He just looks like he's from France.
j luke Hypernova
why is it replaced?!?!
Logan Hawkins TV it got outdated
j luke Hypernova Tech improved and I believe NOAA wanted something new to to alert the public of a weather emergency.
I made the entire video (for exemple, the NBC ident is a fake, i made it on AEF), its a fake, not a real footage ;)
What is the title of the 'beep beep' ?
Beep beep beep is a EAS headers that relay information and scan for any big and errors.
You did not made entire movie.
This is a personal creation that I fully realized. This is the goal of this video and of my You Tube Channel.
Onealtroncccp I just saw Who created the video. I was wrong. You did created it. My apologizes.
Stop commenting "its fake"WE KNOW
This is pretty good…
However, just for a historical note, In the 1980s alert tone that he heard, that long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Was the alert noise. No header tones like we get today. No text to speech voice either… The message would have been read by an announcer person
Having said all that though, still really good lock up… Nice job
Ps A lot of people find the tts creepy... Not me, I use it on a daily basis to access my phone and other things because I have terrible eyesight… The thing that really scares me is that long beeeeeeeep. Growing up in tornado alley in the 1980s when that came on you never knew was it a test or a new card or a tornado or what exactly For the first few terrifying second it’s c
I'd like to bring up that the announcer would not being saying "Please Stand By" while the SAME Tones are being broadcast. Those are relayed throughout the network, and the voices would interfere with the data the tones contain... Also, in 1988, the EBS would still be using the 1500 Hz tone, not the two-tone attention signal... That's from the newer EAS.
That weird pitch change on the tones make it more creepier.
My heart would drop to my feet if this were to happen.
I do not know why but the words “THIS IS NOT A TEST” on the blue screen creeped me out. I guess it’s because I’ve only seen that screen for tests only, so it’s creepy having it say otherwise.
You know in one part of Stephen King's book the stand, the CBS Please Stand By screen is referenced in towards the end of the first act, in which everything begins to fall apart. This kind of gave me a visual of what the EBS would have done in a pandemic style event. Good job.
Those SAME tones weren’t around until 1997, when the Emergency Broadcast System became the Emergency Alert System.
I know it's fake but the transmission of channels and sounds and picture make it seem so real mice job!!!
I agree! This takes a lot of work to make :D and i salute him for his efforts.
+MCD456 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Techno2301 _ I think this is produced, as an April Fools joke.
The CONELRAD logo, so scary, that it can scar you for life. :(
It is not CONELRAD.
7 tones in one. Its suppose to be 3
not a good sign when they come out with the "president or his designated successor" will speak to the nation shortly
Rest in peace headphone users
10 years later, this is still a decent EBS mock
When you got that one kid with the bad mic in your party
I would hate to live in 1988 to see this...
Me too. :,(
The alert is fake, the youtuber created it
CBS
PLEASE STAND BY
O-r-e-o-r-e
Alright so a lot of people have pointed out some stuff but there’s one I haven’t seen:
Fox didn’t exist until the 90s, and Fox News didn’t exist until 1996.
and what makes this video more bone chilling is the cutoff from programing to the ebs broadcast, Thus the tones play 6 times. I used to have nightmares when I watched this. Good job:)
I watched this video when I was younger and it actually scared me. Good job on this EAS mock, or should I say... EBS!
as others have already stated, SAME tones did not exist back then, and artificial voices were not used.
when you got old ronny tellin us that we have a bit of a change of plans you know gorbachev pressed the button
I think you did not notice but when the 3 tones of starting the EAS the pitch goes a little bit high every noise.
The technical difficulties announcer for CBS sounds like the voice of Julie from Go!Animate!
It says fictif which is French for ficticious
That is Julie's voice from goAnimate
Goanimate is shit.
+LandMill agreed
Zome68 l
The CD symbol was no longer used by 1988 and the "duck-quack" noise for the data transmission was not used until the 90s
The EAS tones (the ones at 0:14) weren't created until 1997, along with the EAS
Also, I checked. KBTV wasn't a Fox affiliate until 2009. It was an NBC affiliate in 1988.
The KBTV call letters used to be on KUSA-TV 9 Denver, CO.
8 out of 10 for creativity, but the "Macintosh" announcer wasn't used until the late 90's early 2000's for the national EBS, but a live announcer.
These emergency systems would be less scarier if they had elevator music during please stand by
That's so true I hope if Donald Trump does at least he does that
Bruh that EAS sound was introduced in 1997 💀🗿🤦
This is not EAS it's EBS 🙁
This video is cursed...gives me goosebumps every time. Oh god
It's pretty fake because the EBS didn't use SAME headers until 1997, when EAS was introduced. Also, SAME headers are played only 3 times, not 6 times. And there wasn't a TTS voice until the EAS was introduced, too. It has to be a real announcer saying the message.
This is a master piece. Whoever made this is a genius.
I always hear these watching daytime American TV.It would give me goose bumps hearing it say "this is not a test".
It's obviously fake because at 1:40 it is a voice from GoAnimate, I think it was Julie
No shit, it's a scenario.
1:42 Goanimate Voice!
Yup
They didn't have SAME headers in the Emergency Broadcast System
You know the ebs didn't use the three robotic screeches right? It only used the attention tone
Nor did it have the word scrolling
2:02 Um... FOX Didn't Had This Logo Back Then, It Should Be The Structure Logo, Not The Current Logo, It Rebranded In 1994
Sins:
SAME Tones
Text voices (pre recorded messages would speak instead)
the EBS didnt have the EAS 3 beep tone.
This was AWESOME.
ive got goosebumps now and this is scary
This is absolutely terrifying, imagine this is the last thing you would ever see...
I know right? I would say the most loudest swear in human history. It would go like this: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
*comes home to the worst, on NBC* Darnit NBC, i thought you were the best!
Emergency Broadcast System Reporter: THIS IS AN EMERGENCY WARNING!
me: *facepalm*
The EBS had no SAME Headers. Just the attention tone.
That's Reagan addressing the nation the same day as the challenger disaster occurred. I wasn't at school that day, heck I wasn't even born yet when it happened.
@Onealtron KBTV was an NBC or Fox station in 1988? Also, where does KBTV located?
Why does the EBS have EAS tones? Why Does It Have 6 Headers? Why Is There A TTS voice? Why Are There More Headers In The Middle Of The Message? Why Does The EAS Even Exist In 1988 To Be Able To Have The Tones? Why is The Attention Tone Only 8 Seconds Instead Of The EBS 20 Seconds? All in All, This Is Most Likely meant to be a EAS Mock And Not A EBS Mock. The're Different.
I thought this was lost media!
My only gripe, and this is just me, is not knowing who were about to be nuked by, how many missiles might have been on the way, and where they might have been headed.
Cold War was really over by '88. Heck, it was really the early 90s culture wise by '87.
I'm amazed by the editing.
Ironically, the tones at the beginning decode to a Required Weekly Test from WTSP-TV. lol.
someone go to the radio and turn to 640 kHz or 1240 kHz
emergency broadcast system... sounds like the emergency alert system.
Because the beeps in the begging were from the EAS
There is *no way* that a nuclear attack wouldve occurred in 1988. You're 5 years off.
back then, just the single tone accompanied the ebs messages.that modem sound is newer.
I had a nightmare that North Korea launched 40 nuclear missiles at the United States
Same. A year ago I had a nightmare where the EAS came on. I asked my mother what was going on, and she said (I think) something about some alliance involving Russia and North Korea. The EAS screen began to glitch, presumably the System was being taken over by hackers from said countries.
Let's hope that your dream wasn't a premonition.
@@missbleach8767 if you're referring to Nicholas's nightmare, then I hope so, too. Hopefully you're not referring to my hacked EAS dream...
@@damonthaplaya8443 nope, you're safe.
@@missbleach8767 thanks.
This will be a good new cod cinematic.
I Wore my headphones and my Ears are Bleeding
OMG IT'S THE OLD NBC
At this signal you'll know that civilization has ended.
The wouldn't be a signal change.
Bonjour, les chers Français (es)!
Never knew why they had the conelrad logo in the bottom left.
It’s civil defence, as I know
This scares me.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO WELL DONE
The only thing that sets me off is that the EBS had no SAME Header.
can I use this in an ear rape comp?
Okay, first of all, there were no SAME tones in 1988. They only came in like 2004 or something.
They were first used in 1997 when the EAS was introduced.
I have viewed this when i was 6, now im 9, damn im old
1:40 Doris? Is that you? From the Caillou Gets Grounded videos?
This is even more scary and terrifying than Creepypasta & Five Nights At Freddy's.
why is it so loud
the annoying sound which wanna get your attention sound sooooo creepy its siren head's noise
I fear no man
But that thing
It scares me
This is kinda good and scary. But if you want the real way this would go down, the President wouldn't give the information. A computerized voice or the local television station would broadcast the information. The President would either be in breifings that monitor the situation or be escorted tonsafety himself. He wouldn't address the nation until later on that day if it was over. The only time a President addresses the nation while the situationis occuring is when it is something like the Cuban Missile Crisis, which went on for a week, or tge beginning of the Gulf War. Otherwise people are trying to get to safety and need the information rather than reassurance from the President.
Where did you get that please stand by chirp for CBS?