Comcast all of a sudden early last year began using EAS for EVERY weather alert. Winter Wx Advisories, Severe Tstm Warnings, etc. There was an uproar, to say the least. People called news stations, they did reports on it; people wrote to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Tribune Review, they talked about it, etc. People even left messages for the Pittsburgh NWS office, prompting them to release a statement online and on NOAA Weather Radio stating those messages were directly from Comcast, not them. Yet, it took Comcast MONTHS to get rid of them. It was then changed back to normal, only Tornado Warnings are shown (weather-wise).
The biggest problem was, they would show too many counties, even on smaller headends. For example, at the Penn Hills headend, we'd see warnings for counties 60-70 miles away (Greene, Fayette), which are totally unnecessary, seeing as how our headend served ONE county. Mother
s, always trying to find a way to upset customers.
