Thousands of viewers in Atlanta, Austin and Dallas had their television service overtaken by the national Emergency Action Notification system today. According to Fox Engineers, the EAN can only be activated by the President of the United States, prompting questions about to how the system was able to force tune regularly scheduled programming when no emergency had been declared.
A statement from AT&T U-verse says the company is trying to figure out how and why the EAN system was activated on their network:
‘Earlier today U-verse TV customers may have received an Emergency Alert notification. We have confirmed that there is no emergency at this time and we are investigating why this occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience.’
Viewers who saw the message appear on their television captured screen shots and sent them to local news stations and news web sites:
This post was published at shtfplan on October 24th, 2014.
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