Now I finally know that this was a real slide. It's appeared in countless internet videos. It also makes an appearance in the opening slide show of almost every episode of Oddity Archive.
First time I've ever seen this graphic actually used by a station...my first thought is that it was a "placeholder" graphic for an audio-only EBS test, as others on YT have done. Thanks for sharing!
Chuck D's All-New Classic TV Clubhouse same, I thought that coz I found a test used by WTLN Orlando that was audio only and it used that logo as a placeholder
I have a strange memory of this one. I was living in Wilmington NC and WWAY 3 used this slide. Some Saturday in December 1979, programming kept being interrupted through the day with what seemed to be an actual emergency, followed by what sounded like a drive-thru speaker with someone saying it was a "practice exercise message". Funny thing, I always think those letters look like a ransom demand cutout!
WYTV-33 (Youngstown, Ohio: ABC) - used this "E.B.S." graphic back in the 80's - with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder. Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo) Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
Channel 6 had this too but a twist. During the midpoint a Civil Defense (CD) & a Department of Defense logos title card popped in replacing the oval "EBS."
It was in Iron Mountain, Michigan, that's all I remember. I wonder if there's a place that has images of the earlier EBS test slides. Until the 80's most stations would just put up a stationary image like this one or the Civil Defense shield, and I'm certain most of them were just stock images...
Joe Pinner was Mr. Knozit. By the way, I graduated from Mississippi State with a Meteorology Degree when Ben Tanner was halfway through his studies. I think it was that deep-voiced announcer that did the EBS tests back then. That's what I know from my summer vacations at Myrtle Beach.
WKNO-TV 10 Memphis (PBS), used the aforementioned "Easter Egg" EBS logo for their tests in the 80's and 90's back when I was a kid. The abstract design and lack of on screen text was quite unnerving to me back then.
daniel ruggiero, WYTV-33 (Youngstown, Ohio: ABC) - used this "E.B.S." graphic back in the 80's - with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder. Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo) Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
None of the Detroit stations had ovals with EBS letters in their tests. Most of them had Civil Defense logos. WXYZ-wavy lines (see WSMH), WXON (see WSNS) is all I remember. Did any of the Michigan stations have EBS ovals in their tests?
Pretty much ALL of the EBS tests frm Detroit had the CD logo (and colorful graphics) and even though these used to scare the BOO-HOOGIES out of me growing up, I remember one EBS test featured a pic of the Detroit Renaissance and the voiceover was done by a woman....
jim hatten what station in Detroit was that with the Detroit Renaissance voiced over by a woman? But needless to say WOWT NBC channel 6 is the Omaha area’s scariest EBS test slide of the 1980s better than Civil Defense logos on Detroit TV stations. Do you have WOWT channel 6’s EBS test in 1980s?
Nick albers if my memory serves me correctly, I believe WWJ TV, 62 was the station that had an EBS test with a photo of the Detroit Renaissance, it was frm the early 1990s, that much I DO remember. And that channel was the only one where the EBS tests were voiced over by a woman and she always referred to it at the Emergency BROADCASTING System...
KXMB TV-12 (CBS) in Bismarck, ND used this same exact slide back in the 80s (and possibly earlier) for their EBS tests. I'm guessing this was a stock slide that was issued to several stations to use for EBS tests/announcements.
@@eascec8374, WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio using this EBS slide from about the mid 1970's until 1994 with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder. Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo) Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
Now I finally know that this was a real slide. It's appeared in countless internet videos. It also makes an appearance in the opening slide show of almost every episode of Oddity Archive.
It was made in 1976! The slide was!
It was used from 1976 to 1985 or 6.
Fellow Oddity Archive watched here! I just found this video now LOL
First time I've ever seen this graphic actually used by a station...my first thought is that it was a "placeholder" graphic for an audio-only EBS test, as others on YT have done. Thanks for sharing!
Chuck D's All-New Classic TV Clubhouse same, I thought that coz I found a test used by WTLN Orlando that was audio only and it used that logo as a placeholder
It was a real graphic. WKNO-TV 10 in Memphis, a PBS station, used to use it when I was a kid and it freaked me out!
Kris Starring why is the graphic kinda sepia toned on this? Just wondering :)
WSBE [Providence RI PBS station] used a variant of this logo - but with 4 eggs [that read t-e-s-t]
The big friendly letters don't make the fact your hometown is gonna get blown away any less scary
Easter Bunny Service, that is so cute and definitely understandable! I love this slide.
Funny enough that EBS logo looks like eggs. Kinda like NHK years later
I have come to love this EBS test slide design! It rocks!
I have a strange memory of this one. I was living in Wilmington NC and WWAY 3 used this slide. Some Saturday in December 1979, programming kept being interrupted through the day with what seemed to be an actual emergency, followed by what sounded like a drive-thru speaker with someone saying it was a "practice exercise message". Funny thing, I always think those letters look like a ransom demand cutout!
WYTV-33 (Youngstown, Ohio: ABC) - used this "E.B.S." graphic back in the 80's - with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder.
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test."
The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo)
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
WDTV-5 (Bridgeport, WV -- CBS) used this very slide (or a variant) up until 1995. The test script was underneath the ovals.
IF this had been an actual emergency, your television would be melting.
I remember this slide being used here in Buffalo, NY on WNED-TV channel 17.
The early 1970s KMTV had a title card colored yellow w/the CD emblem and the words 'Emergency Broadcast System'.
Channel 6 had this too but a twist. During the midpoint a Civil Defense (CD) & a Department of Defense logos title card popped in replacing the oval "EBS."
What Channel 6 are you talking about. There's Lots of Channel 6's. Oh you mean WOWT?
@@eascec8374, the Channel 6 is talking about is WOWT, Omaha, Nebraska
Yes WOWT.
PasJanMakMarSky Vids WOWT’s would be the creepy one in Omaha. It showed the EBS ovals first then the CD logo during the tone.
I've seen color versions of this, with a white background, black ovals, and the letters in red, green, and blue, respectively.
Did you know what station has that slide?
It was in Iron Mountain, Michigan, that's all I remember. I wonder if there's a place that has images of the earlier EBS test slides. Until the 80's most stations would just put up a stationary image like this one or the Civil Defense shield, and I'm certain most of them were just stock images...
You Mean Stations near Marquette, Michigan like WBUP.
John Holton What station in Iron Mountain, Michigan was that. Was it WLUC 6, WNMU 13, or WJMN 3?
During the 1970s, WIS-TV (Columbia, SC ) used rectangles instead of ovals for their EBS test slide.
Joe Pinner was Mr. Knozit. By the way, I graduated from Mississippi State with a Meteorology Degree when Ben Tanner was halfway through his studies. I think it was that deep-voiced announcer that did the EBS tests back then. That's what I know from my summer vacations at Myrtle Beach.
WKNO-TV 10 Memphis (PBS), used the aforementioned "Easter Egg" EBS logo for their tests in the 80's and 90's back when I was a kid. The abstract design and lack of on screen text was quite unnerving to me back then.
WSBE-36 (Rhode Island PBS) - used a variation of this graphic back in the 80’s - with “Test” in 4 oval circles
daniel ruggiero, WYTV-33 (Youngstown, Ohio: ABC) - used this "E.B.S." graphic back in the 80's - with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder.
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test."
The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo)
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
None of the Detroit stations had ovals with EBS letters in their tests. Most of them had Civil Defense logos. WXYZ-wavy lines (see WSMH), WXON (see WSNS) is all I remember. Did any of the Michigan stations have EBS ovals in their tests?
Pretty much ALL of the EBS tests frm Detroit had the CD logo (and colorful graphics) and even though these used to scare the BOO-HOOGIES out of me growing up, I remember one EBS test featured a pic of the Detroit Renaissance and the voiceover was done by a woman....
jim hatten what station in Detroit was that with the Detroit Renaissance voiced over by a woman? But needless to say WOWT NBC channel 6 is the Omaha area’s scariest EBS test slide of the 1980s better than Civil Defense logos on Detroit TV stations. Do you have WOWT channel 6’s EBS test in 1980s?
Nick albers if my memory serves me correctly, I believe WWJ TV, 62 was the station that had an EBS test with a photo of the Detroit Renaissance, it was frm the early 1990s, that much I DO remember. And that channel was the only one where the EBS tests were voiced over by a woman and she always referred to it at the Emergency BROADCASTING System...
No way the announcer is from Nebraska, nobody here says, "Hwere."
KXMB TV-12 (CBS) in Bismarck, ND used this same exact slide back in the 80s (and possibly earlier) for their EBS tests. I'm guessing this was a stock slide that was issued to several stations to use for EBS tests/announcements.
Ryan Schweitzer, WYTV 33 (ABC) in Youngstown, Ohio used this exact slide back in the 1980s for their EBS tests.
@@russellpavlov1343 Don't forget KING-TV and KCCI-TV.
I like to call this slide the “EBS Eggs” just like how it was for NHK.
I remember WGTE in Toledo using this slide.
WGTE Used That Slide Until The Early 1980’s.
@@eascec8374, WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio using this EBS slide from about the mid 1970's until 1994 with "This is only a test" shown at bottom under the "E.B.S." logo for a good 10 seconds as the Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder.
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Open: "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test."
The Attention Signal was transmitted from the EBS encoder for 20 seconds. (with this "E.B.S." logo)
Al Medvey, WYTV/EBS Announcement Close: "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
Very cool!
KING-TV’s EBS Test Is Found, It’s The Same But With A Closing Message Scrolling Upwards In A Black Background.
The same goes to KCCI-TV in August 1989.
Yes, I Just Recently Found It.
Used from 1976 - 1984.
Yes, you're right. This EBS logo was made in 1976.
Wheres the song??
♪ This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System! ♪
(FAKE)