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Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Jul 2, 2009 6:17:09 GMT -5
Found this on YouTube yesterday, and it is apparently 100% real. Supposedly, the FCC cut WHEN a new one for using this.
(I also remember a different EBS jingle, ending with, "Did'ja pass?" ;D)
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Post by jpkansas on Jul 2, 2009 17:24:20 GMT -5
That's hilarious.  |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 2, 2009 20:24:44 GMT -5
That's funny! I guess you have to make the announcement, but it doesn't matter how.  |
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Post by 55dodger on Jul 2, 2009 22:01:15 GMT -5
But why did they have to use Up With People to make the spot. Inquiring minds want to know.
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Post by Ken on Jul 2, 2009 22:44:09 GMT -5
LOL!  I remember seeing a couple of different EBS clips as a kid.One I remember had a similiar graphic, but didn't have the "Up With People" voiceover, instead, an announcer talked in a monotone type of voice with the test signal. I really wish they had been more like this, because they kind of freaked me out as a kid!  |
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Post by jpkansas on Jul 3, 2009 1:27:15 GMT -5
These are now called EAS (Emergency Alert System) tests. We are required to run them once a week.
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Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Jul 3, 2009 5:56:54 GMT -5
But why did they have to use Up With People to make the spot. Inquiring minds want to know. There's a RealAudio file link on Wikipedia, and it says, "TM Productions." The funny thing is, I lived in Syracuse at the time, and WHEN was the station that our Zenith console stereo was usually tuned to(unless Mom was on one of her occasional country-music kicks), and I don't remember this. If the description on YT is accurate, the FCC eventually decreed that you can't do the EBS script to a jingle or read it in a "comical" way. And yeah, it scared the pants off me too. |
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Post by m c dornan on Jul 4, 2009 18:46:05 GMT -5
Kids like sick jokes, and the kids I hung with sure did. I remember we had a parody od the EBS that went: "This was a test of the EBS. If this had been an actual emergency, you would be dead already."  |
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