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- From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
- Subject: Singing EBS test
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052940.18418@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:29:40 GMT
- Lines: 83
-
- This EBS talk reminded me of something I heard way-back-when, as they say.
- The first station I ever got involved with had a copy of "The Singing
- EBS Test." It ran approximately like this:
-
- (SFX: FOUR BARS OF HIGH HAT DRUM BEATS; THE MALE VOICES JOIN IN ON THE
- FIFTH BEAT)
-
- SEVERAL MALE VOICES: THIS IS A TEST
-
- (SFX: RIMSHOT)
-
- FOR THE NEXT SIXTY SECONDS,
-
- THIS STATION WILL CONDUCT A TEST
-
- OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM.
-
- (SFX: 2 RIMSHOTS)
-
- THIS...
-
- (SFX: RIMSHOT)
-
- IS ONLY...
-
- (SFX: RIMSHOT)
-
- A TEST.
-
- (SFX: 2 RIMSHOTS)
-
- YEAH.
-
- (SFX: Pause for legal amount of time pause has to be, followed by a
- sine wave playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" but holding onto the top
- note, which just happens to be the FCC's EBS frequency)
-
- (SFX: TWO DRUMBEATS; MALE VOICES COME IN AT TAIL END OF SECOND BEAT)
-
- THIS HAS BEEN A TEST
-
- OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM
-
- (SFX: FUNKY SAX; ANNOUNCER COMES IN SINGING AND READS AS IF HE'S ABOUT
- TO BREAK UP LAUGHING)
-
- ANNOUNCER: YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH....
- (Singing
- along at first)
-
- (speaking) HAD THIS BEEN AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY, THE TONE
-
- YOU JUST HEARD WOULD HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED BY
-
- FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON WHERE TO TUNE TO FOR
-
- MORE INFORMATION.
-
- THIS CONCLUDES THIS TEST OF THE
-
- EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM.
-
- (SFX: Hanna-Barbera-style cadence, followed by a "QUACK!")
-
- ******************************************************************************
-
- I posted this whole silly thing (at least as well as I could remember
- it) because I'd dearly love a copy of it if anyone out there happens
- to have it. I've long since lost touch with the station where I first
- heard it, and the last time I heard from anyone from there, it had
- fallen into the cracks of oblivion. :-(
-
- Thanks,
-
- --Lynn
-
- --
- Lynn Gold figmo@netcom.com
-
- Worst pickup line of the decade:
- "You're so cute, so pretty. I've got the beer if you've got the
- time, you know. I've been all around the world. Would you like to
- see some human remains and intestines I have in the back of my van?"
-