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Submitted by solinox on Thu, 03/27/2003 - 15:51
Had a bit of a scare earlier this week. The kids were watching the Wiggles on the Disney channel, and I was in the bathroom, when suddenly I heard that sound they use for the Emergency Broadcast/Civil Defense system. Talk about a heart attack! I have never before heard that sound unless it was on the radar channel back home (for weather alerts) or it was immediately followed by, "This is a test..." They didn't say it was a test. I rushed to finish and raced downstairs to find...nothing. Not a blessed thing. I checked the public access channel, all the network channels, and the news channel. Nothing. The Disney channel had gone back to regular programming with no messages or anything.

I called the cable company later. They told me that they couldn't put any emergency broadcast signals onto any of the channels, even the local ones. Any alerts would come from the channel itself, not the local cable people. Comforting to know. No, really, it's great that if a bomb was about to drop on my head, I wouldn't hear a thing about it unless Fox News already knew and decided to say something. But why on earth would the Disney channel have put out an alert signal? They're nationwide (and more), and no alert could possibly affect the entire country. What would be the point? The cable company gave me a number for Disney to call and ask them about it, but the number didn't work, and the 800 directory didn't have a listing for them.

Curiouser and curiouser...