Tuesday, July 10, 2012

EBS/KCBS Alert Interupts Owens/KGOne 11 AM Talk-Show, (Psst, It's Getting Worse)

This account from several readers bears a mention...

I was checking in on Ronnn on KGOne (why, who knows?). Had some boring sports guest on. About to tune out when I hear the EBS sounder. Repeated at least 3 times, and I wondered what was going on. I didn't feel any earthquake. Thought maybe an Amber alert

Finally a voice breaks in: "This is only a test of the KCBS emergency broadcasting system." More sounder, then repeated the KCBS line. More sounder. Then it was over, and cut back to Ronnn in mid sentence. Apparently he didn't even know that his now second-rate (third-rate?) station had cut him out for a competitor's EBS test.



Anyway, thought it was really weird, and demonstrates how unprofessional and low quality a former class-act leader of the pack has now become.


Sad sad sad.
 
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23 comments:

  1. Yea...their EBS system has been "whacked" since they moved...I suspect it was loaded incorrectly into their new automation system. The "monthly" test seems to run every WEEK right around 11am.

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  2. THat's the monthly EAS. Stations have 1 hour to transmit. If not the EAS takes over automatically and the station has no control. That's what happened.

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  3. It went off on Comcast also..but not in triplicates. Just once.

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  4. these screw ups are the only thing that could possibly be of interest on KGO anymore. let's all hope for more Karel type (Joe the Plumber)open mic events...

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  5. some boring sports guest - that would be hall of famer Jon Miller...

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    1. Way to sling it Rich. Take a credibility hit calling Jon Miller some boring sports guest. Don't you check your copy before you hit send? You should!

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  6. It sends a warning, and you have a fixed amount of time to run it or it will simply interrupt whatever is on at the time. An alert tech can defuse that situation. I hear it on my way to work sometimes on other stations where obviously nobody's there (4AM).
    As for the "boring sports guest" on All Star Baseball Day he had Hall-of-Famer Jon Miller. Timely and hardly boring if you love baseball.

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  7. I thought somebody's BS alarm system had gone off.

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  8. It also happened on KDFC, broadcasting from their new Sunnyvale FM frequency 104.9. The KDFC voice announced the test, KCBS had the voicer in the middle, and then the KDFC announcer took over at the end.

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  9. Why not? KGO should just shoot the dead horse. I've been a faithful listener for years. Down to 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night. This afternoon there was a grass fire off Willow Pass near Highway 4....no overhead reporting...no super commuters...might as well just call 511. Like the news people but not enough to see a once great station die. It's too sad.

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  10. Jon Miller on the Ronn Owens show... is Miller Jewish?

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  11. KGO-TV aired the EBS Monthly Test at 11:30 am Tuesday morning, right after the local news, and with it was the KCBS test announcement.

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  12. KGO should "bootleg" all of KCBS' programming.

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  13. I heard that and laughed. It was a metaphor for everything happening at KGO. In the entire history of the EBS/EAS, the only time I've heard it activated for a real crisis was in the movie, Independence Day!

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  14. Shows what little you know about broadcasting. It's the required test that runs automatically on Tuesdays an hour of receiving the signal if not run manually. There are a lot of stations that do that and cut into programming.

    And it's called EAS - the EBS has not existed for years

    And Jon Miller boring? You've sunk to a new low

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  15. Wow! So KGOne had a minute of quality programming vis-a-vis KCBS! Things are looking up!

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  16. I was watching the ABC-7 11am news & the same KCBS EBS broke in it wasn't just radio.

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  17. Jon Miller boring?????Shocking...

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  18. I don't listen at all to KGO, but Jon Miller is boring? And, you MISS Ray Taliafero? Wow...

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  19. What the hell happened to Papa on 95.7? Did they stop paying him or something?

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  20. I believe the boring sports guest you referred to was Harry Edwards, who was on Ronn's show at 11am that day...I could be wrong on the day but HE was on RO's show last week.

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  21. Actually, Rich, it was KCBS's mistake. They aren't supposed to read that script in the monthly statewide EAS test, which is what this was.

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