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Old 05-17-2012, 08:42 PM
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Is this happening to you? Any way to get around it?

I have Comcast for TV and have an HD box. Lately, when there is a severe weather warning anywhere in the Central FL area, the TV switches to WGN channel, broadcasts the weather alert and then shows the alert as a text crawler (which appears to be repeated 3 times). During this alert, you can't change the channel... I.e. the remote is frozen. Once the crawler completes, perhaps 3-4 minutes later, the TV switches back to the channel I was watching.

Don't get me wrong, the EAS warning is important, but seems to me you should be able to switch off of it when you got the info.
Yup, got the same thing....just happened again (9:35P). It happens to the TV with the bigger Comcast box; no problem on the TV with the smaller box.

Any techies have any input? Personally, I don't know a wire from a rope so if you can help, speak slowly......
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