{"id":84567,"date":"2017-09-25T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84567"},"modified":"2017-09-25T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:48:00","slug":"end-of-world-prediction-interrupts-tv-broadcasts-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84567","title":{"rendered":"End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SCOTT SCHWEBKE | sschwebke@scng.com | Orange County Register<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;playlistId=19132&#038;siteSection=inform_wordpress_plugin&#038;videoId=33015036\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest said she was watching the HGTV channel via Cox Communications about 11:05 a.m. when suddenly an emergency alert flashed across her screen followed by a voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealize this, extremely violent times will come,\u201d a man\u2019s voice boomed, according to a video of the alert.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: End-of-world prediction heard on O.C. television channels linked to \u2018equipment failure\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Laflamme said she was alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt almost sounded like Hitler talking,\u201d she said. \u201cIt sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Cox, Spectrum cable customers in Orange County received the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Mireles of Diamond Bar was watching the Bravo channel on Spectrum\u2019s cable system when her show was interrupted by the alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was definitely startled, \u2019cause the volume increased exponentially,\u201d she said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t alarmed in the sense of thinking something was wrong, \u2019cause I assumed it was some sort of hack. My channel changed back to Bravo after a couple minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious alert became a hot topic on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The problem occurred because of one or more radio stations conducting an emergency test, Joe Camero, a spokesman for Cox, said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cable systems pick up such alerts, and viewers should have seen just a typical emergency-broadcast test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these tests, an emergency tone is sent out to initiate the test,\u201d  Camero said. \u201cAfter the tone is transmitted, another tone is sent to end the message. It appears that the radio station (or stations) did not transmit the end tone to complete the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the broadcast picked up some audio feed that bled into the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Camero said Cox technicians shut down the emergency test as soon as they became aware of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to alarm anyone with any false emergency alerts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cox and Spectrum are investigating who sent out the alert and whether it was done accidentally or on purpose. It was unclear where the audio came from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confirmed that we were fed an incorrect audio file,\u201d said Dennis Johnson, a spokesman for Spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u2019t been determined if the audio in the alert is related to a prophecy by David Meade, a  self-described \u201cspecialist in research and investigations\u201d who believes catastrophic events will occur Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He predicts a constellation \u2013 a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation \u2013 will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signaling the beginning of the end of the world, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Mrxt6f1g1p\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2017\/09\/21\/end-of-world-prediction-interrupts-tv-broadcasts-in-orange-county\/\">End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County&#8221; &#8212; Orange County Register\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2017\/09\/21\/end-of-world-prediction-interrupts-tv-broadcasts-in-orange-county\/embed\/#?secret=fhEVa1MYjx#?secret=Mrxt6f1g1p\" data-secret=\"Mrxt6f1g1p\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SCOTT SCHWEBKE | sschwebke@scng.com | Orange County Register Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world. 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