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Pvt_Wierzbowski t1_j6e12zz wrote

Idk how it works in television but having worked in radio, I can tell you that these tones trip the EAS software/hardware to go into alert mode. Using this sound recklessly - like in a commercial - could trip the actual EAS to activate, though very likely without any messaging. You’d effectively be watching/hearing a blank alert. Moreover, “end tones” have to be played to allow the alert to conclude; without those tones, the alert stays active until someone manually ends it.

In short, don’t fucking play around with the EAS tones.

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lady-kl t1_j6emyt1 wrote

My Dad works in radio and TV signals and has worked one of these cases. He demonstrated to me the episode of Young Sheldon a few years back that played the real tones. He ran it through the decoder and it came up as a Tornado Warning at a specific time for a specific location.

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Pvt_Wierzbowski t1_j6f0ms7 wrote

I don’t watch that show, but I recall seeing promos for an episode about a tornado. Did the producers just copy a random tornado warning alert and use it on the show? If so, that’s kind of hilarious until/unless the EAS went off.

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