Before the Federal Communications Commission "outlawed" this practice, many TV and radio stations - especially contemporary-music radio stations - would air a more "attractive" method of broadcasting the mandatory once-a-week test of the Emergency Broadcasting System (EBS), replaced in the 1990s by the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
This one was created in 1978 by the Southern California radio production group named L.A. Air Force, brainchild of the late Terry Moss. This jingle was featured in the whimsically-produced 3-volume vinyl set "Cheap Radio Thrills," of which my alma-mater, San Joaquin Delta College, had this package in the early-1980s.
Where I was raised, KOVR-TV Channel 13 in Stockton/Sacramento and a few radio stations broadcast "EBS singing jingles."
KSFO 560 in San Francisco aired another comedic singing jingle in the early-to-mid-1970s by the veteran radio team Bob And Ray.
Incidentally, this particular jingle differs slightly compared to the jingle provided by YouTube member CobraKing619 since 2008 (a sonovox insert is used instead of a young-sounding female singer during the second sentence following the EBS tone, and this is a "generic" jingle with no local I.D., also).
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