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Needless to say, [[Truth in Television]].
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▲== Emergency Broadcast systems by country ==
'''Australia:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4gPCLzLO8 The Standard Emergency Warning Signal], used primarily in Queensland to warn of cyclones, but now possibly being expanded for bushfires and terror threats in the rest of the country. Possibly, along with Japan's EWS and Alberta's EPWS, one of the few Emergency Broadcast systems to originally be developed specifically for a weather/geological hazard rather than [[Atomic Hate]].
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A national EAS test was performed on November 11, 2011. It showed that nationally, the system needed a little work: Some cable providers switched to their EAS feed station (usually QVC or another [[Home Shopping]] channel) without showing the test, others didn't state that a test was happening, and Direct TV viewers were hearing [[Lady Gaga]] instead of the test message.
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