Only a test?! For some, EAS disrupts Letterman’s finale
YOUNGSTOWN — Perhaps this could be chalked up to a stupid human trick.
The final Top 10 list in the final broadcast of “The Late Show with David Letterman” was interrupted by an Emergency Alert System test at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday for some viewers in Youngstown’s suburbs.
“We received nothing, and we sent nothing” in connection with such a test, said David Coy, general manager of WKBN-TV 27, the local CBS affiliate that carried the Letterman program.
He noted, however, that WKBN’s signal is carried by three cable TV companies – Armstrong in Youngstown’s suburbs and western Pennsylvania; Warner Cable in Youngstown and Warren; and Comcast in southern Mahoning County and Columbiana County.
Those who experienced the EAS test were Armstrong customers.
Neither Dan McGahagan, Armstrong’s general manager in the Mahoning Valley, nor Dave Whitman, vice president of marketing at Armstrong’s Butler, Pa., headquarters, could be reached for comment as to whether a Wednesday night EAS test appeared on Armstrong’s logs or discrepancy reports.
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