Boy is that an exaggeration.
It's not an exaggeration, it's just a defamation of character lie and I'm telling you offduty that you are a cheap liar. He explained how the system works, he explained what they were going to do, he said it was only for 3.5 minutes and said that even FEMA wasn't sure what would be displayed on the TV.
This is the first ever NATIONAL test of the Emergency Alert System. There have been many Monthly tests of local and state areas.
The Monthly tests rotate between day and night.
In advance of the National test, FEMA and the FCC conducted simulation tests in Alaska and Nevada.
Unlike the Monthly tests, which are limited to two minutes maximum, the National test, sent with the EAN, Emergency Action Notification, code has no fixed time limit.
The EAN is expected to be about 3.5 minutes long. The aural portion of the test will say that it is a test.
However, for television stations, the automatically generated video crawl, will not. It will say something like: A Emergency Action Notification has been issued for Washington DC..... Which is why television stations need to be on the alert to under cut a slide indicating TEST.
This test is in the day time so that engineers can observe and report on the system, to learn what went wrong so it can be fixed.
And, if it goes bad, the unit that takes over the air chain can be unplugged.
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm
Sad that you must resort to name calling rather than stick with the facts. I was commenting on the posts over at the Blaze. If you read them, you’ll see there is an undercurrent of concern that Obama would have the power to take away (ok maybe bad choice of words) how about control radio and tv nationally without local broadcasters being able to do something.
His listeners had to get that impression from somewhere. Read the posts on the Blaze before you flame me.