It's really astonishing that somebody managed to record this event, or else it would've ended up as simply an urban legend.

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

It was heavily covered in the press. The New York “Times” wrote an editorial about it, so while an authentic relic of the event is great to have, it would not be necessary to distinguish the event from legend, urban or otherwise.

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@nerysghemor5781, to be more precise, _hatefulness_ was the authentication code word assigned to that day so stations could verify that the transmitted teletype message was in fact a genuine emergency alert. The retraction code word, which took considerable time to find to trasmit a retraction of the alert was _impish._ Unfortunately, by that time in the life of the national emergency broadcast system, of which this was, I believe, the second iteration since the start of the Cold War and the threat of a nuclear attack, many stations had misplaced or lost their lists of authentication code words so they would be able discern whether a given trasmission was genuine or not.

@nerysghemor5781

2 жыл бұрын

@@inkyguy Thanks!!

@davemitchell116

Жыл бұрын

Not with me. I was there. See my comment above.

@almostfm

Жыл бұрын

Based on how we hear a couple of seconds of the beginning and end of the Partridge Family, it sounds like a standard air check tape. The stations I worked at had a small tape deck that was wired so that it started recording when you turned the mic on, and it stayed recording until a couple of seconds after you turned it off. You'd put "your" tape in at the beginning of your shift and pretty much forget about it until you were done on the air that day.

Man this guy had the perfect voice for radio

@antcamp07

3 жыл бұрын

Because he was using the mid Atlantic accent witch was the most formal accent for radio, bussnies, speeches throughout the 1920s-1970s

@pattozebass9767

3 жыл бұрын

@@antcamp07 ah yes the concocted accent

@dtramos

3 жыл бұрын

@@pattozebass9767 unlike the "Authentic" accents in use today?

@pattozebass9767

3 жыл бұрын

@@dtramos The mid Atlantic accent was one hundred percent artificial

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

My mother (Anne Rose Head Cole - an English Speech Teacher and Speech Pathologist) taught me Broadcast English, which is probably why I was hired in the early 70s as a Newscaster at WMRC in Oneida, New York.

There's something comforting about hearing Bob laugh. That little human break in an otherwise entirely poised voice.

You can hear the guy struggling to hide how frustrated he is about the lack of info coming in. He gets louder and talks faster the more stressed.

@almostfm

Жыл бұрын

That and having dozens of people calling in wanting more information.

@JohnSmith-zw8vp

9 ай бұрын

Yeah the fact that the teletype wasn't saying a peep about the matter when you'd think there'd be many alerts/headlines about the incoming missiles or whatever probably made him think this whole thing right from the start just didn't make any sense.

@JohnSmith-zw8vp

9 ай бұрын

@@almostfm And making clear that hey, we're just as stumped about this as you are!

@dirtbagdeacon

5 ай бұрын

And then the palpable relief and chuckle as he finds out that it was all a mistake. Bless him, he did a great job.

@dancline2143

4 ай бұрын

Bob was always very professional. Something that is missing now days. Bob was trusted. If he said it, people knew that it was true

Bob Sievers is amazing and handled this like a pro.

@michaelskaggs2462

8 жыл бұрын

That why Bob was known as "Mister WOWO".

@kirkteeters1046

3 жыл бұрын

Bob Severs was always professional and highly respected.

@compmanio36

3 жыл бұрын

Back when professionalism was a job requirement and you could actually be selective about whom you were hiring, instead of trying to fill quotas with the least qualified people because government told you that you had to.

@johnritcher5751

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!!! Someone finally said it

@TheDoctor1225

2 жыл бұрын

@Art Ellis LOL "WOWO received this emergency announcement - we are ALL SCREWED, SO GOODBYE!" (sounds of feet running) :-D

EBS in the 70's - "We do not know about the alert, but we will play music while trying to find out what it is." EAS now - *earrape beeping*

@JagerLange

3 жыл бұрын

Please Stand By.

@josepharmstrong1531

3 жыл бұрын

It's also because of this incident, the US government/FCC HEVALY regulates EAS materials and prohibits EAS unless absolutely necessary.

@Grubby_Gruicer

3 жыл бұрын

*demonic screeching*

@felixleiter9123

3 жыл бұрын

@@Beazilla worked in radio in the 80s and 90s. i can remember at least 3 times we had false alerts. most weather related around hurricanes tho. i would have shite my pants on air thinking this was ww3!

@cdur5091

3 жыл бұрын

the EAS. giving you nightmares since 1997

I’m from the UK. I first came across this recording in about 2011 and became fascinated by it. Fast forward to 2024 and today I have just visited Fort Wayne for the first time and been to the location where this very recording was made :)

@TheMW2informer

4 ай бұрын

That’s really cool! I’ve been fascinated by this incident (and EBS/EAS in general) for a long time as well, I have family in Fort Wayne and am a lot closer than the UK. Is the public allowed to visit? it would be interesting to see where the recording was made.

@pianoman1396

4 ай бұрын

@@TheMW2informer The recording was made at the old studio at 128 West Washington Boulevard. The building isn’t actually there any more, but the facade has been kept (it’s now a parking garage), but it’s next to a visitor centre for Fort Wayne. The current studio is just off Highway 27 to the south of the city.

@disneyforthewin

4 ай бұрын

Thats really cool

guy is fucking remarkably composed considering he thought the end of the world was at hand

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Flight attendants too as well as those in our intelligence services. Amazing that he asked other employees to come into the station!

@peterp2153

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t be surprised if Bob figured something might be fishy since they got the mistaken message at the same time they would normally receive the test message, though being the absolute pro he is, he went along with it under the assumption it was 100% legit. I believe the reason cited above is why a lot of stations ignored the EAM, correctly figuring it was a fuck-up by the military.

@TrickyMario7654

Жыл бұрын

@@TheUrbanGaze It’s a shame a lot of the current crop of journalists are more like “activists” than actual “journalists”.

@SarafinaSummers

5 ай бұрын

Behind the scenes you know he was probably chainsmoking and shooting Jack, right? /l

How the world ended: last thing I remember they were playing a Partridge Family song....then....all hell broke loose....sounds like a fitting way to Armageddon :-/

@rugheadedporchmonkey

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!!

@ThatGuy-te9wh

4 жыл бұрын

That was the Partridge Family's "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted", followed by Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes". K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies weekend just keeps on... trucking

@mattschneider6773

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the CBS feed at the time of the JFK assassination? They were talking about Thanksgiving on 'As The World Turns', then Walter Cronkite, then a Nescafe commercial. Talk about whiplash.

@BGNOLA

5 ай бұрын

I blame Danny Bonaducee

@beatlejim64

4 ай бұрын

Better than going out listening to (c) rap!

I was in high school that Saturday morning in Feb.1971. I was home alone...and the bulletin came on! The country and other radio stations were going nuts...is this the end? Bob Sievers was as cool as a cucumber!!! Kudos to him on that day.

Know that this is in no way a blunder by WOWO. They were one of a handful of stations to broadcast this alert in a timely fashion. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.

@CrossingTalkAdmin

10 ай бұрын

Yup, if anything, this event showed a great level of unpreparedness by a bunch of other radio stations.

I lived in Wabash County, Indiana, at the time and lived 45 miles away from Fort Wayne. I was 11 and my Mom and I heard this and we both believed the missiles had been launched. When they said the television stations had gone off the air, I checked and found the six stations, 3 Fort Wayne and 3 South Bend were indeed off the air. Needless to say we were very happy to learn they had used the wrong tape message. I read later one of the Star Trek books used this as a ploy device, a Starfleet signal had gone across time to trigger the alert. Also, a question occurred to me many years later---was this an accident, or an "accident" to test the people in the government and the military.

@michaelskaggs2462

8 жыл бұрын

It should read "plot device." My bad.

@Gj23jk2

8 жыл бұрын

Be thankful it was just the EAN-1 message that got sent out. That one's called the White Card; it deliberately makes no mention of an actual attack in order to prevent panic. The EAN-2 Red Card is the Doomsday Message and old Eberhardt could have just as easily put that one in the slot instead. I can't imagine the mayhem that would have ensued if those poor DJ's had to read "This is an attack warning, REPEAT, this is an attack warning!"

@Wanimac

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@kuga6566

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gj23jk2 that's why they had everyone pre-record their EBS scripts, to combat obvious distressed recitals of it during a wartime broadcast or to combat DJ refusal to announce it

@kaelandin

2 жыл бұрын

I had a similar reaction earlier this month when the EAS went off on my phone soon after Putin threatened nuclear attack. It was an amber alert.

I commemorate this every year. Happy fiftieth to the EBS false alarm of Feb 20, 1971. Sometimes I wish I was actually alive back then to witness live reactions.

I like how Sievers calls in all the news staff to the station, while they're probably either evacuating the city or heading into a shelter, saying "yeah Bob; we'll be right there." :-D

Hey, Bob Sievers rocked the unknown test. Amazing guy and amazing voice.

5:03 - The announcer breaking his formal tone and doing that liberating laugh is just adorable!

@ji3194

3 жыл бұрын

It's fantastic!

@ilanhala9470

2 жыл бұрын

Ee

@theskipper3203

2 жыл бұрын

“Adorable”-not sure why but I feel like you chose the most perfect adjective possible. 😂

@StrangeScaryNewEngland

2 жыл бұрын

Sounded like he stomped his foot on the floor, too 🤣

@davidpar2

2 жыл бұрын

It was a completely genuine expression of relief

Wow. These days, in my area, the Emergency Broadcast System is activated literally every time it rains. (With a "severe thunderstorm warning" or "flash flood warning".) I remember the days when an activation of the EBS meant the Soviets had launched missiles against the United States.

@walkingonneedles

Жыл бұрын

its Emergency Alert System these days which yes is a different thing since unlike EBS, EAS is actually a different thing thats more designed around a simple system that everyone uses the same way rather than the somewhat free-for-all nature of how to broadcast the EBS messages. and as fot weather, yeah originally EBS wasn't used for weather, they finally introduced that to it later into the 70s so yeah that actually is the case that it was originally just for extreme measures as you noted.

@sullysullivan1282

Жыл бұрын

Hey, be thankful we have that technology to tell us about things like this - you wouldn't be complaining if you'd gotten a warning, had time to prepare, and your land flooded. Better safe than sorry.

@zachatck64

Жыл бұрын

​@@sullysullivan1282 Exactly

@PhirePhlame

Жыл бұрын

It's a wider scope, since value was seen in having more localized alerting mechanisms as well to try and make sure people know if there's been a hazardous chemical spill, or if they might be in the path of a tornado in the near future.

It's been 52 years. Shout-out to Ben at the Oddity Archive for informing me about this.

@5:21 "All broadcast stations may now resume normal broadcast operations." Bob Sievers: I'll just play this record while I go change my underpants.

This poor guy was an absolute professional. You have to feel for him and everyone else at that time and yet, the EAS also proved itself absolutely flawed to human behavior.

In 1971, World War III began during a Partridge Family song In 1971, the National Emergency Warning Center accidentally told US radio stations to suspend all broadcasts, presumably because the world was ending in a nuclear fireball. It took them 40 minutes to correct this apocalyptic gaffe.

@DJAUDIO1

7 жыл бұрын

I love this description

@angelique5438

6 жыл бұрын

Literally happened today in Hawaii

@SuperPhineasMaster

3 жыл бұрын

It is like that scream and run around in circles scene from Spongebob, but it's WAY WORSE.

@Bacopa68

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and because we had blacked out, the Soviets went on alert, Because the Soviets went on alert, the US did a minimum interval takeoff fully loaded at SAC bases. The SAC takeoff prompted tactical patrols by Warsaw Pact nations, Patrols led a large and aggressive response in Europe. A UK patrol Tornado can't turn back the Tupolev Bears it intercepted like it usually does, and downs a Bear...

@lmaoroflcopter

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bacopa68 its 1971. Thats 3 years too early for a tornado. Try lightning or an F4 Phantom II.

It's really jarring that one minute you've got The Partridge Family with their "Sunshine Angst" music and the next it's in a head on collision with an ice-cold announcement of world annihilation. Kinda gives the song an unexpectedly haunting vibe. Then the piano music- added creep factor.

The Day the Partridge Family ENDED THE WORLD!!!

@henrygustavekrausse7459

4 жыл бұрын

Consequences

@steveprestegard5151

4 жыл бұрын

"I think I BOOOOOOOOOMMM!"

@deathtoll5000x

2 жыл бұрын

David Cassidy confirmed for war criminal status.

“We may be a few minutes from nuclear incineration. But first, some music from “Love Story.”

@butchknouse8316

4 жыл бұрын

Now it would be "North Korean nuclear missiles heading towards United States. For details, go to our website and download our Doomsday App."

@PhirePhlame

4 жыл бұрын

Being that this was back in the days of the red and white cards, that's not true. The white card message, denoting an Emergency Action Notification, was only used for peacetime national emergencies at the time. An imminent attack would instead call for the red card message, which was explicitly labeled "Attack Warning" rather than "Emergency Action". The reforms caused by this spectacular failure included the abolition of the dual cards, with the Attack Warning being folded into the EAN, which is still the case to this very day.

@swami1

4 жыл бұрын

SapphireFlame That’s why I wrote “may.”

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

The Russian Dead Hand System might have become self aware and initiated War Games!

I was attending college in Defiance, Ohio, about 60 miles east when this happened. Few college students listened to WOWO (most listened to CKLW (Windsor, Ontario) or WJR (Detroit)... but when word circulated through the dorm about his.... yeah, it had our attention. I remember on Monday our geology prof was telling (the alert was on a Saturday as I recall) when this happened he and his wife and locked themselves in a small pantry in their basement... and couldn't get out for six hours.

What if the announcer had said, "Oh fuck this, I am out of here, i am not going to spend my last hours on Earth working." Then it just goes all quiet.

@robbo5life

6 жыл бұрын

HA!

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Or, "Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye"

There is an audio on here of the same event from Minneapolis/St Paul, but they cut into the recorded message to say that it’s a false alarm. I think the station was WCCO. There was also an interview with Bob Sievers on here where he reminisces about this event, amongst other things. If I remember correctly, his professional handling of this situation led the mayor of Fort Wayne, IN to declare the day ‘Bob Sievers Day’.

The piano interlude makes it even creepier....

@stephenhuntsucker3766

3 жыл бұрын

Just like the War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938.

I was never even there, and I know there was no emergency, but it's still a relief when he announces the mistake.

I was on the air the morning this happened at a small low power station in Ohio. The engineer and I made the (wrong) decision to not air the EMS message in the red envelope and keep playing country music. Then the cancellation message came over the AP wire...and it had the wrong code verification word! It was another few minutes before it was corrected. The station manager later chewed us out royally for not following procedure, but we were unable at that moment to process that this could actually be happening! We did, however, keep our jobs.

@warreneckels4945

3 жыл бұрын

Was the white card stored in the red envelope? Had you read the red card used for imminent or occurring attacks, that would have really stained some underwear.

I would have made the air force pay my laundry bill after that.

Bob really handled it like the pro he was, though I can tell why he referred to it years later as "my longest 5 minutes in radio"!

I remember this clearly. I was 16 and a kid on a farm in Nebraska. People were freaking...believe me!!!

This guy simply has more composure and personality, instead of the creepy TTS we now get with the EAS alerts.

@Firepup740

Жыл бұрын

They're trying to make it better. Idk if they're succeeding, but they're trying.

I remember this. Our Fremont Michigan station stopped broadcasting, but my mom spun around the dial looking for a station that was actually authorized to broadcast and they were all playing music. It was very weird.

@almostfm

Жыл бұрын

It's because they'd already passed on all the information they had, so to avoid dead air, you play music until you know more.

@ohpamoh

Жыл бұрын

@@almostfm Weird. We didn't know this, though, and were expecting to hear more news.

Bob really handled it like a pro.

I remember reading details about this situation, back in the day. The verification code sent along with the wrong tape was the correct verification of the message as a valid action message. The verification code, if I remember correctly, was "Hatefulness, Hatefulness."

A lot of drawers got soiled that day...

@MrScottie68

5 жыл бұрын

jb0177 yea. I bet all stores were out of Clorox the next day. 😂

@dougherendeen3241

3 жыл бұрын

And that was just the folks in Radio...

Interrupting the Partridge Family, now that's a Public Service ;-)

@DJAUDIO1

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment.

I lived alone at the time and it was my day off. Slept through the whole thing. I thought people were BSing me when I went out into the world that afternoon.

This may honestly be one of my favorite videos on KZread.

Was working for the Defiance, Ohio Crescent-News this morning and we kept searching the wire secvices for any indication of what was going on.

I remember this event. In Baltimore,Md. I was listening to WCBM(680) then owned by Metromedia did sign off. They came back and basically did what WOWO did. I’m curious as to what New York City Stations did as well as other markets. Thanks in advance.

I was on the air, and alone in the station, at KOCA-AM in Texas when this happened. I knew immediately it was screw up because it happened the same time as the weekly test. I ignored the message and stayed on the air with my normal show.

1:08 - I remember seeing that EBS logo periodically on KVOS Bellingham back in the 1970s when the station did its weekly EBS tests during local commercial breaks.

WOW Bob Sievers, I grew up in FW Hearing Bob Sievers morn, Jack Underwood, Mid-Day,& Young Chris Roberts, Ron Gregery, aftterns & Bob Dell in the even. WOWO was a flamethrowing 50,000 watt blow torch of the mid west.Top 40 format. AM radio, the 1st World Wide Web. Thanks for Posting!

"Please do not call us. We don't know WTF is going on either."

Brings me so many memories!!! I first watched this back in 2013!!!

Muta brought me here

This is wild because they interrupted such a good song

Bob Chase was a good friend (neighbor actually) of my grandfather Ken Ullyot (Original owner of Komet hockey) and it's nice to hear his voice used on other things besides hockey

@richardmourdock2719

2 жыл бұрын

Bob Chase was/is legend. The guy who started Doc Emerich on his career. He broadcast Fort Wayne Comets hockey for what 62 or 63 years. He was in his nineties I believe.

Im here from local 58s contingency and this is just fascinating

So, 1971 was a good year to buy shares in U.S stocks of toilet paper and underwear, then?

@johnritcher5751

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@williambabyak1094

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you would really have cleaned up!! Atrocious, I admit, but I couldn't resist.

@emryan958

4 жыл бұрын

this aged like wine

@josepharmstrong1531

3 жыл бұрын

We found a time traveler!

@felixleiter9123

3 жыл бұрын

in thunderball, 007 is called into an emergency Meeting for double 00s. when dear, sweet moneypenny ask james what is happening, connery says "someone probably lost a dog". classic

And this is why so many of us in the radio business, like myself, take the EAS (and in the old days, the EBS) so seriously!

Somebody at my work blamed a girl who was hit and killed by a drunk driver for her own death, and I nicknamed said co-worker Hatefulness/Hatefulness after this incident.

HAHAH exactly! "Here, everybody! Listen to this soothing classical music while we crap our pants here in the studio, trying to figure out if nuclear bombs are about to fall on us... Have a nice stiff drink and wait to be told whether or not you're going to be turned into ashes... Have a pleasant day! And as always, keep listnhing to WOWO!" LOL!

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

But you won't be able to receive our signal where your going and we won't be here to transmit it!

that's a relaxing thing to hear if you are driving to work

Beethoven-Moonlight Sonata. The Muzac version. AKA Elevator Music. AKA. Music To Kiss Your Ass Goodbye With.

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Like outside on the plaza on 9/11.

I wonder how many babies were born nine months after this broadcast.

@MeowingCookie_

5 жыл бұрын

Or during it lol

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Good point. Probably as many as six years earlier during the East Coast Blackout of 1965. My dad, Jack Kendall Cole, Hospital Administrator for the two hospitals in Oneida, New York immediately started hiring more people for the maternity ward for nine months later!

@kolt46

2 жыл бұрын

The Ruskies just launched, the world is doomed.... How many people would think of sex at that moment?

I also recall reading an article in Radio Worl back in the 90s, something similiar occured with the then new EAS system. Alot of stations already had the new boxes but when an engineer activated the system to do a test that was only suspose to go to Chicago, alot of stations in the mid west and Florida also got taken off the air. One even recall hearing someone say "Chicago Can You Hear Me".

We are endeavoring to find out ourselves

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Joe Walsh Life's Been Good, but its hard to leave when you can't find the door!

Because this false alert was transmitted at the same time as a scheduled weekly test of EBS messages, many stations assumed this was a test and didn't break into regular programming or (for stations not actively participating in EBS) going off the air. Did other Group W stations (WBZ/WBZ-TV Boston, KDKA/KDKA-TV Pittsburgh, WINS New York, WIND Chicago, KYW/KYW-TV Philadelphia, WJZ-TV Baltimore, KPIX-TV San Francisco), or KFWB Los Angeles carry the alert or did they think it was a test?

It must have been a national emergency to interrupt a Partridge Family tune :-/

@Smell-O-Vision-Citrus

3 жыл бұрын

The partridge family tune WAS the emergency

This also happened in 1971 on WCCO in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, the place where I live.

The world famous WOWO fire escape.

He sounds so freaked out. I was born in 1982 so I just don't know this type of fear that happened back in the day.

We left the Fort Wayne , Indiana area the year by coincidence . We lived in Warsaw , Indiana until the summer of 1971 !

I was licensed by our federal government through the Federal Communications Commission with a Third Class Broadcast License and was working as a Newscaster and Disc Jockey at the WMRC Radio 1600 "Home of all the MCs" AM radio station in Oneida, New York. I was on some evenings and on Sunday mornings, but was listening to our station on this Saturday morning and heard our station broadcast their alert for this Emergency Action Notification, which was relayed to us by teletype (from the Associated Press wire service that I read the news from) with a ten bell alarm (the Kennedy shooting was over the one or maybe three bell usual alerts at five bells). The message had to be authenticated by codeword by opening a secret packet that we received monthly and authenticated by day. The codeword for this alert was HATEFULNESS. It was nerve racking to contemplate the end of the world (as depicted in the movie The Day After)!

Radio used to sound so beautiful.

50 years ago.

This recording is solid gold.....chills

Bob Sievers must have been very relieved.

2:34 I know it has another name but from now on I'm calling that "The Apocalypse Song"

@EddieMillerStudios

3 жыл бұрын

It's the theme from _Love Story_ .

@MrIveyIsBonkers

2 жыл бұрын

@@EddieMillerStudios Yes, I am aware.

As soon as he got the information that it was a false alarm he should have said the words "false alarm", rather than reading out that long spiel about Cheyanne Mountain and saying that the wrong tape was played. "We've just received information that this was a false alarm" is a lot clearer to somebody in a panic.

Philip Wentz I had heard about the incident in Florida. I believe the authorities may have actually confiscated that recording. It has probably been long since destroyed. I don't think that the DJ got into any trouble though, but I could be wrong.

Bob Sievers is da man!! What a pro.

Imagine the world ending to the soundtrack of the Partridge Family?

"Oops. Sorry."

There was an incident that occurred around the Melbourne, Florida area back around this time that involved a pre-recorded message by a DJ. He had made up his own custom track that was to be played only in the event of a real attack (sort of a humorous but patriotic rant), but one day someone put it on instead of the test message and it panicked a number of people (and caused the brass at Patrick AFB down the coast to check and see what was up). Does anyone have any info or possibly audio of this?

@SeekAStrak

10 жыл бұрын

Ask Ben over at the Oddity Archive. He might know.

@Gj23jk2

8 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome, I'd love to friggin' hear that!

@philipwentz5321

7 жыл бұрын

I've only heard one mention of it. Was in an old international relations textbook I had in high school. I may try and see if there is a forum for the airbase I could post to, or perhaps check with the radio stations down that way.

In Spanish: Durante Este periodo, muchas estaciones de radio permaneceran en el aire, transmitiendo noticias y areas de informacion asignados. Esta estacione permannecera en el aire u servira en el area de Fort Wayne. Ahora deberia sintonizar su radio a otras estaciones hasta que escuche una que este transmitiendo noticias e informacion para su area. Ahora esta escuchando el Sistema de transmision Emergencia que presta servicios en el area de Fort Wayne.

For any hip-hop fans: 1:40 when Bob Sievers says "At The Microphone" was sampled by DJ Premier on Gang Starr's track "Skills". FUN FACT!

@nerysghemor5781

3 жыл бұрын

Also, if you are into prog rock, this features in the opening track “Cold Call” from one of OSI’s albums.

@DJAUDIO1

3 жыл бұрын

@@nerysghemor5781 OH Wow. That is awesome.

@nerysghemor5781

3 жыл бұрын

@@DJAUDIO1 “Cold Call” is an amazing, spooky song. I’m sure it’s on KZread!

@DJAUDIO1

2 жыл бұрын

@@nerysghemor5781 It is. Super cool.

I was on the air at that time, but it was always a test on Saturday mornings...so when I heard the standard 10 bell ding, and when i checked the wire, i waited for the local EBS station and they never broke into their programming, there was a code word for the day with was the trigger for the event

I heard that broadcast. I was 8 and living in Ft. Wayne and we had WOWO (or Woh-woh) on in the kitchen as usual and I got my pants scared off, but we didn't really believe it, because they didn't know why there was an alert or if it was real, and there wasn't any crisis leading up to it, but still, you never knew when the nukes were going to come back then, as everyone worried a lot about it. Didn't remember about the Partridge Family, though.

50 years ago today.

this video is set on loud as my wake-up alarm

@experimental0000

8 жыл бұрын

+E Saunders It'd make an interesting prank

@ClintonKendallCole

2 жыл бұрын

Ringtone

Does anyone know of the name of the music they played while trying to find out?

I know this was from 40 years ago, but just listening to this, I almost shat my pants.

One minute when the children of the 70s watched Saturday Morning Cartoons on NBC to ABC, the next minute, an EBS told them to this is a not a test, Russian missles is heading to America, get to the cellar or sturdy buildings and hug your parents real tight and 4 minutes later Bob Sievers on the radio told everyone and says "It was false alarm because we forgot to play the normal test message. 😅 Oopsie"

I heard the Partridge Family song a couple of days ago on XM. This clip immediately came to mind. Sucks to have been the AF Cadet to get this mixed up. I was four years old at the time, so thankfully I was too young to understand. It would have given me an instant enema

@nerysghemor5781

3 жыл бұрын

Bet it also sucks to be the person who made the same screwup in Hawaii in 2019!

"This is Bob Sievers, and we've been informed this was all a big mistake. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get in my car, drive to Cheyenne Mountain, and beat the ever-living hell out of the airman who screwed this up and nearly gave me a heart attack!"

RIP David Cassidy!

@electronmusicjunkie I just question if they were in EBS mode at that time, why would they be playing music?

I wouldn’t have been mad that a nuclear war was starting. I would have been mad though that the last song I’d ever hear would have been a freakin’ Partridge Family song.

@johnnyblaze9217

Жыл бұрын

It was a great song

When you’re listening to the radio and suddenly it fades away **realization**

All this because someone put in the wrong tape? I'm already in the storm shelter! 😂

I work in the business (radio) and I am kind of surprised that no one in the news room contacted, the fire department, Police Department or the airport to see if any alerts would have been issued. Could of nipped it in the bud real quick.

I picked up WOWO here in Philadelphia at night in the fall of '71. I used to listen to Bob Bolton. I even wrote to him and he read my letter on the air.

@Perririri

2 жыл бұрын

The Philadelphia affiliates of Westinghouse were KYW TV 3 and KYW AM 1060

What a great voice

Fruit of the Loom's stock jumped big time!

Nowaday with the EAS system, the message would automatically cut off a station's studio feed to their transmitter till the codes were activated to close it.