WGN Channel 9 - Emergency Broadcast System Test - "Tone Deaf?" (1980)
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- Here's a test of the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) as broadcast on WGN Channel 9.
If the tone sounds off to you, it's because they screwed-up and only used the 853 Hz tone, instead of a combo of 853 and 960 Hz, as required.
Voiceover by Merri Dee.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, April 10th 1980 during the 12:00pm to 1pm timeframe.
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Seems like WGN’s EBS encoder was on the fritz. That tone was the 853 Hz part of the dual-tone Attention Signal. The other part, a 960 Hz tone, isn’t present here.
At the end of the attention tone, you can hear someone turning a page for the voiceover to read the script of the alert
Very old school indeed!
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Boy, times have changed. And now I'm tone-deaf. Help.
rawrvintageisclassic tone deaf?sounds like the "ATI" siren, has got a bad cold, or something. ha!
Does it make u a little deaf
@@godzillagamer2013 WHAT?
@@rawrvintageisclassic well in sometime it's like screeching
that tone was only half of the full alert tone lol.(if this was NOAA it would do a 1050hz tone)
why does this bring back memories i've never even had
send help
Reincarnation?
@@FuzzyMemoriesTVhere's a fact you didn't ask for: i do lost media shit and this piques my interest
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV you got a new sub my g
The old Civil Defense shield was one of the scarier things to see as a child. Very stark.
Oopsie. Only one of the tones of the two-tone EBS attention signal got through.
Must have been a technical fault with their EBS alert system that particular broadcast day.
These things used to creep me out when I was a kid growing up in the sixties and trying to watch Bugs Bunny
So it wasn't just me! Still kinda creeps me out even today!
Yeah in the ninety's I was scared of them they make me shake and my throat fells like someone is touching it while watching teletubbies lol
This is only a test...too bad WGN failed! :-D And clearly, someone wasn't minding the store here, given the slight gap between the opening VO and the actual test transmission.
Chuck D's All-New Classic TV Clubhouse not to mention that they put a civil defense logo, on that slide.
bkrbyex4339 - Many stations used the old Civil Defense logo as part of their EBS test graphics for years, such as Chicago's WFLD, Dallas-Ft. Worth's WFAA, and NY's WNBC
Chuck D's All-New Classic TV Clubhouse didn't WMAQ, use one of those CD logos in their EBS tests, before they decided to retire them, in the 90's? also WBBM ch 2 Chicago, had a CD logo, set against a burlap background. now anybody recorded these on a betamax?
To the best of my knowledge, WMAQ never used the Civil Defense shield, but WBBM did.
and there using the wrong attention signal.. The signal should have a two tone combination of the sine waves of 853 and 960 Hz
Can someone do an edit version with the RIGHT Attention Tone?
Oops on the alert tone.
my ears not deaf enough
Let's Goooo!!!!🇺🇸🍿
I hear it. Heh,I am not tone deaf
What font is this?
I keep seeing youtube is showing lots of EBS stuff from years ago , I wonder if it is because it might be used again in the next 2 weeks. GET READY
Wrong tone. Too high pitched.
they forgot the other half of the alert tone
What does the CD stand for
“Civil Defense”.
Civil Defense. I'm actually a bit surprised that they don't use that logo anymore on the EAS tests. Do they use the FEMA logo these days?
it’s a female EBS voice this time