• The Cypress Times, Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3 PM

Hear that ear-shattering noise? Not yet? If you turn on your TV or radio around 2 p.m. EST, next Wednesday, Nov. 9, all you’ll get on every single channel or station will be an emergency alert tone.

Actually, we don’t know how annoying the tone -- or picture -- will be under the country’s brand-new Emergency Alert System, but we do know that every broadcaster, cable channel, radio station, and even satellite and telco TV provider in the whole country will have their signals interrupted for up to three-and-a-half minutes as the FCC and FEMA conduct the system’s first-ever nationwide test.  Hey, we know how much it will hurt to miss the opening of CBS’ “The Talk” or whatever, but this is actually pretty serious.

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