This is not an alert message. It just looks like one. (KXAN-TV)
This morning, some AT&T U-Verse subscribers woke to an alarming message displayed on their TV screens declaring a vague emergency, without any mention of it being a test.
“This is an Emergency Action Notification,” read the text over a large red banner. “Your channel has been force tuned to receive the Emergency Alert Message.”
Thankfully, there is not some nationwide emergency facing only U-Verse users. Instead, it appears to be some sort of large-scale glitch with the pay-TV system.
KXAN-TV in Austin, TX, reports that U-Verse had confirmed hearing about this problem from people Atlanta, Austin and Detroit.
The message disappeared for some users around 9 a.m. CT this morning, but KXAN said others continued to complain about still seeing the banner on their screens.
KXAN says that it has opted to run a crawl of its own to let viewers know that there is no emergency and that it’s just a U-Verse glitch.
No official statement from AT&T on this one yet, but the U-Verse Twitter feed is currently apologizing to many subscribers, promising that “We’re investigating this issue and working toward a resolution.”
by prakash chandra via Consumerist
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