First I want to state, I don't believe for a minute CC did this on purpose! What Company would want the flak from a situation like this?

Something similar to this happened in Portland in the late 1990's when a Howard Stern spot was sent to Radio & TV stations in the area by mistake. With that said, this is an interesting read:
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From All Access: Did Clear Channel Talk-A KFBK-A/Sacramento send out a political commercial as an EAS test? Noncommercial KDVS/Davis, CA is complaining that KFBK sent out its required monthly EAS test Monday at 10:02a PT but failed to stop the test at its normal conclusion and instead forced stations receiving the activation to air a commercial for Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Dick Mountjoy.

KFBK Station Manager Jeff Holden told the Sacramento Bee that the problem was "operator error" and said that the signal that ends the test "didn't fire properly". Stations in 17 Northern California Counties aired the EAS test, although Holden said that there's no way to know how many aired the spot as well, assuming that some stations have people monitoring the test and may have cut it off as soon as it was clear that a mistake was made.

I hope Washington County OEM has better luck with their RMT this Saturday than KFBK! Washcoem runs more practice/demo warnings than everyone else combined (at least it sure seems that way), yet still seems to have rotten luck when it's their turn to originate a monthly test.

Got tired of the DMO's Scott?

Washington County replaced their EAS transmitter, and their communications guru and I were getting it to sound good, which it finally did.

Since they are the backup for the state, it has to be dependable.

I was KUFO's Chief Engineer when the Howard Stern promo got sent instead of the RMT audio. Up until that night I always was there in person for the RMT. Earlier that night I took my then chronically ill mother to the emergency room and forgot about the RMT. The sleepy board op started the RMT, spaced out, played the Howard Stern promo and ended the RMT.

That made it into Inside Radio, which I photocopied and put next to the EAS box.

This is the primary reason that the Portland/Vancouver counties do the local RMT's, and the state does the rest, instead of a radio station.

During an RMT a few months later, KUFO played about 90 seconds of "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails: the PERFECT EAS song. "...I'd rather die than give you control."

Good stories Kent! Thank you...