Editing Emergency Alert System (section)

=== Testing errors ===
* On October 19, 2008, [[KWVE-FM]] in [[San Clemente, California]] accidentally initiated a Required Monthly Test when it meant to conduct a Required Weekly Test. Furthermore, an operator aborted the test mid-way through the broadcast (failing to broadcast the end-of-message tone), causing all area outlets to broadcast KWVE-FM's programming until those stations took their equipment offline.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2053A1.pdf | title=In the Matter of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, Inc., FM Radio Station KWVE San Clemente, California: Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture Adopted: September 15, 2009 Released: September 17, 2009 | date=December 6, 2016 | publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] | access-date=June 16, 2017}}</ref> On September 15, 2009, the FCC fined the station's owner, [[Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa]], $5,000. After the fine was levied, various state broadcast associations in the United States submitted joint letters to the FCC, protesting against the fine, saying that the commission could have handled the matter better.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://radiomagonline.com/currents/news/state-broadcast-associations-appeal-kwve-eas-fine-fcc-1009/ | title=State Broadcast Associations Appeal KWVE EAS Fine to FCC | work=Radio | date=October 9, 2009 | access-date=October 2, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602015453/http://radiomagonline.com/currents/news/state-broadcast-associations-appeal-kwve-eas-fine-fcc-1009/ | archive-date=June 2, 2011 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> On November 13, 2009, the FCC rescinded its fine against KWVE-FM, but had still admonished the station for broadcasting an unauthorized RMT, as well as omitting the code to end the test.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://radiomagonline.com/currents/news/fcc-dismisses-kwve-eas-fine-1117/ | title=FCC Dismisses KWVE EAS Fine | work=Radio Magazine | date=November 17, 2009 | access-date=October 2, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715150505/http://radiomagonline.com/currents/news/fcc-dismisses-kwve-eas-fine-1117/ | archive-date=July 15, 2011 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* On September 28, 2016, an emergency alert was broadcast by [[WKTV]] in [[Utica, New York]] that contained a Hazardous Materials Warning for the entire United States. The message contained a non-sequitur quote from the [[Dr. Seuss]] book ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'', "Would you. Could you. On a train?" WKTV apologized and stated that the alert was "an automated test [from FEMA] which was not intended for public display." A FEMA representative stated that its decoders had been mistakenly "configured to poll a test and development message aggregator instead of or in addition to the production message aggregator", with the test server having used the ''Green Eggs and Ham'' quote as placeholder text. The error was also connected to conspiracy theories surrounding [[2016 Hoboken train crash|a train crash in New Jersey that occurred the next day]], which claimed that the alert was a forewarning of the incident.<ref>{{cite web |title=New York Television Station Broadcasts Bizarre Warning Before Hoboken Train Crash |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-york-television-station-broadcasts-bizarre-warning-before-hoboken-train-crash/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Snopes.com |date=October 3, 2016 |language=en-US |archive-date=July 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714235712/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-york-television-station-broadcasts-bizarre-warning-before-hoboken-train-crash/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* On September 21, 2017, a technical glitch in another scheduled test by KWVE caused the end-of-message tone to be omitted, causing regional participants (particularly [[Charter Communications|Charter]] and [[Cox Cable]] systems in [[Orange County, California|Orange County]]) to simulcast a portion of [[Chuck Swindoll]]'s ''Insight for Living'' program. Some viewers speculated that the system had been hijacked, as the portion of the program relayed (where Swindoll was discussing the Bible verse [[2 Timothy 3|2 Timothy 3:1]], and stated, "Realize this, extremely violent times will come.") could be insinuated out of context as discussing an impending apocalypse.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/21/end-of-world-prediction-interrupts-tv-broadcasts-in-orange-county/|title=End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County|date=September 21, 2017|work=Orange County Register|access-date=September 30, 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929091948/http://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/21/end-of-world-prediction-interrupts-tv-broadcasts-in-orange-county/|archive-date=September 29, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/22/end-of-world-prediction-heard-on-o-c-television-channels-linked-to-equipment-failure/|title=End-of-world message on TV was just glitch from a test of the Emergency Alert System|date=September 23, 2017|work=Orange County Register|access-date=September 30, 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930084253/http://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/22/end-of-world-prediction-heard-on-o-c-television-channels-linked-to-equipment-failure/|archive-date=September 30, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/22/extremely-violent-times-will-come-ominous-emergency-alert-was-just-a-tv-test-gone-awry/|title='Extremely violent times will come!': Ominous emergency alert was just a TV test gone awry|last=Bever|first=Lindsey|date=September 22, 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=September 30, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930084821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/22/extremely-violent-times-will-come-ominous-emergency-alert-was-just-a-tv-test-gone-awry/|archive-date=September 30, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>