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FEMA and the FCC have scheduled a nationwide emergency alert test for cellphones, radios and TVs for Wednesday, October 4, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern time.
The broadcast triggered the EAS on some broadcasters and cable systems; the program's distributor iHeartMedia was fined $1 million by the FCC for the incident. [19] In 2016 or 2017, KUCO-LD in the Sacramento Valley area of California conducted an unauthorized test of the EAS. However, the message read in Spanish said that the activation was for ...
On May 19, 2010, NOAA Weather Radio and CSEPP tone alert radios in the Hermiston, Oregon area, near the Umatilla Chemical Depot, were activated with an EAS alert shortly after 5 p.m. The message transmitted was for a severe thunderstorm warning , issued by the National Weather Service in Pendleton , but the transmission broadcast instead was a ...
FEMA's national Emergency Alert System — recognisable by the startling beep heard on the radio or television prior to an announcement — will test its delivery capabilities on Wednesday at ...
Federal Signal Model 5 in Ballston Spa, New York, U.S.. Sirens are sometimes integrated into a warning system that links sirens with other warning media, such as the radio and TV Emergency Alert System, NOAA Weather Radio, telephone alerting systems, Reverse 911, Cable Override, and wireless alerting systems in the United States and the National Public Alerting System, Alert Ready, in Canada.
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...
This is only a test." (mainly radio stations used this particular announcement) "This is a test. (Name of Host Station) is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." "This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." "This is a test of the Emergency ...