It looks like for a LOT of cable and TV systems, it WAS a fail.
THAT is exactly what the purpose of the test was for...find out where it doesn’t work and why.
I think a LOT of station engineers are going to be working on this. I also suspect that due to what appears to me to be an EPIC FAIL in many places, I’d be willing to bet there’s going to be another one before the next year is half over.
They cannot successfully utter one sentence nationwide, much less control us.
“find out where it doesn’t work and why.”
WHY do we need a national alert system?
“Fixing” this government-caused “problem” is going to cost us megabux!
As I posted above and on other threads, what “emergency” over the last 80 years would have been enhanced by a nationwide alert?
Yeah, for all the sarcasm methinks this is a good thing: nothing wrong with a government being able to notify the populace of an emergency, nor running a test to discover weak spots (which there WILL be in a large untested system).
To counter the hysterical: the Constitution provides for Congress specifying the means for the President to call out the militia to defend the region/state/nation; this national alert system is a satisfactory means of doing so. That it extends reasonably to the unorganized militia (and beyond) and reasonably beyond political enemies to natural & artificial disasters is not a Constitutional crisis.