Hawaii Missile Threat TV announcements

We'd get Joanna Lumley, Hawaii just got this:



End of the world or not I think if that appeared on TV here we'd all find the time to complain about such presentation here - the scroller especially seems poorly structured.

Presumably some news channels picked this up in the 38 minutes before it was declared a false alarm, but not seen any footage of them reporting it yet.

The machines that insert them are simplistic ones. There is some integration with them and graphic systems that allow it to match the house style.



This is a video I took in 2011 (hopefully you can view it) showing how the EAS crawl was customized.

Imagining CNN digging this out

.... I love how they waited until half time to announce the missile threat. haha.

A commenter on YouTube said it was fake but it appeared real. Those messages go out regardless of time and usually as soon as they’re received. Certain alerts such as Tornado Warnings may not go out at all if the station if already covering severe weather.

Someone on every YouTube video says it's fake

How come none of the main networks or news channels had breaking news coverage when the alert initially came on? Surely they'd have reported it on the likes of Fox News and CNN within minutes of the alert. I ask this as it apparently took over 30 minutes before it was clarified as false.

I'm assuming they were trying to determine if it was indeed genuine before they reported anything.

I watched MSNBC yesterday and they waited 30 minutes before anything and it wasn’t classified as breaking news (but it filled several hours). I assume they waited because reporting something like that could cause some people to maybe do something drastic.

Joanna Lumley? Is she the designated voice of such announcements?

Better than Ree Hun Chee, or whatever her name is.