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- From: ser@netcom.com (Steve Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Current EBS procedures?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.224131.5328@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <77469@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan25.101346@kuttner.sfc.sony.com> <1993Jan26.170202.8013@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:41:31 GMT
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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?
- >
- >Because all it sounds like to the listener is a test to see if
- >the cart marked "eBS test" works! 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)?
- >
- At KARA & KLIV, we play the annoucement cart, then hit the EBS tone
- generator, then play the announcement cart again. >
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