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- From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Re: Current EBS procedures?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165613@kuttner.sfc.sony.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:56:13 GMT
- References: <77469@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan25.101346@kuttner.sfc.sony.com> <1993Jan26.170202.8013@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Sender: weaver@kuttner (Eric Weaver)
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- Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA
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- In article <1993Jan26.170202.8013@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, prm@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (paul.r.mount) writes:
- |>
- |> Question for broadcasters: when a station runs an EBS test, do you
- |> actually do more than what it sounds like to a listener:
- |> which is play a cart that announces the test, and play a tone for
- |> a few seconds, and make another announcement?
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- Nope, that's all it is. 23 seconds, actually.
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- |>
- |> Because all it sounds like to the listener is a test to see if
- |> the cart marked "eBS test" works!
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- AND the annoying tone - gotta make sure that works too.
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- |> Does anything make a listener
- |> tune out faster than hearing "this is a test" (besides maybe
- |> hearing Whitney Houston sing "If..." and you know it's that
- |> song for the one millionth time)?
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- They tune back in eventually. Gotta do 'em, it's the rules.
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