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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~tor_warn_2789~~tor warn 2789.jpg\|frame\|[[Oh Crap]]! [[Death From Above]]!]] The Emergency Broadcast is a means of public warning and public annoyance alike. Hearing an [['''Emergency Broadcast]]''' warning of actual danger may lead to [[Oh Crap]], [[Mass "Oh Crap"]], the need for [[Bring My Brown Pants\|one's brown pants to be brought]] - in that way it may be the ultimate [[Brown Note]]. On the other hand, a test or a warning of something that doesn't affect you (e.g. a missing child warning, a flood when you're on high ground, a tsunami when you're 100 miles inland) may be a [[Berserk Button]] and lead to frustration with [[Crying Wolf]]. Another frequent frustration is when an actual alert has such horrible sound quality you can't understand what's being said. In many countries, [[Atomic Hate]] was the primary reason for the system's creation, and it eventually (and thankfully) ended up never being used for that purpose and being used for many others. Needless to say, [[Truth in Television]]. Line 9: {{examples}} == [[Emergency Broadcast]] systems by country == '''[[Eagle Land\|USA]]:''' The first US Emergency Broadcast system was [[wikipedia:CONELRAD\|CONELRAD]] (CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation), intended only to warn listeners/viewers of an impending atomic attack and to make it hard for Soviet bombers to find American cities by using radio direction finding. It was eventually renamed the [[wikipedia:Emergency Broadcast System\|Emergency Broadcast System]] when advances in communication and weather radar made it possible for state and local authorities to use it to disseminate information about local emergencies. Later, as alerts began to be disseminated through non-broadcast routes (cable and satellite TV, cellphones, weather radios), the system was again renamed, this time as the [[wikipedia:Emergency Alert System\|Emergency Alert System]], or EAS. Line 29: Also, the Japanese test signal is not entirely standardized across broadcasting stations (even stations within a given city like will differ; examples abound on [[YouTube]]) except for the emergency chime, a video/audio description of when a real broadcast would be activated, an emergency tone, and a notification in Japanese that the audible "piro-piro-piro" tone (the data burst, not the bells mentioned above) is only audible on analog TVs, with an additional device required after the digital transition due to it being a data signal to digital TVs. '''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]]. '''Czech Republic:''' Alarm sirens are tested the first Wednesday each month, at noon. They are accompanied by voice messages announcing that it's just a test, but especially if you are in a building the only thing you hear is the sirens' wailing. Line 91: == [[Fanfic]] == * ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' features an [[Emergency Broadcast]] broadcast in English and Nazzadi languages. == [[New Media]] == * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwffUO4C5E This tribute] to ''[[Superfriends]]'' starts with a reporter in the middle of a catastrophe calling out for heroes. * [[YouTube]] is full of uploads of EBS/EAS tests (as well as those for other systems outside the US.) There are also clips where the sound is used as a screamer, as well as plenty of parodies, remixes, mockups, and [[Youtube Poop]]. One terrifying but wholly unrealistic [[YouTube]] original horror creation is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWt4Di6zr14 this.] It's the use of the NOAA weather radio emergency tone, civil defense sirens, and voiceover work to create a very simulated [[Emergency Broadcast]] of a [[The Deadliest Mushroom\|nuclear attack]]. This is of course nothing like how a real attack would occur, but it's still scary. Other simulated EAS alerts on [[YouTube]] highlight other non-weather, non [[Atomic Hate]] hazards it is sometimes used for (with the alert-type 3 letter abbreviation for said type added afterwards in parentheses), including some that are recordings of actual EAS activations such as: *** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7sUr15rw4 Escaped Wild Animal(s)] (Local Area Emergency - LAE)

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