Television broadcasts in Southern California were interrupted late Thursday morning with an end-of-the-world prediction, startling viewers and setting off a firestorm on social media. Erin Mireles told the Orange County Register that she was watching Bravo on Spectrum when the alert appeared. A spokesman for Cox Communications told the paper that the problem occurred because one or more radio stations conducted an emergency test. “With these tests, an emergency tone is sent out to initiate the test,” Joe Camero told the paper. “After the tone is transmitted, another tone is sent to end the message.

Source: Fox News September 22, 2017 08:15 UTC