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Here are answers to all of your burning questions about today’s emergency alert test. ... The test was broadcast by cell towers for approximately 30 minutes beginning at 2:20 pm ET, FEMA said. ...
Millions of people across the country received the first-ever nationwide test of the government’s new emergency alert system today.. While the alert was scheduled to go out at 3pm, many mobile ...
Emergency Broadcast System test message on KPTV Portland, 1988 Video slide used by KEYC-TV in Mankato, Minnesota to announce an EBS test, c. 1990 First, normal programming was suspended, though tests were typically conducted during commercial breaks for continuity reasons.
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio.
Cellphones, TVs and radios across the U.S. simultaneously blared out an emergency alert today. Here's what to know and why it happened.
Here’s what to expect on your devices.
Federal Emergency Management Agency sent out alert at around 2.20pm ET
The term "Emergency Action Notification" was created when the Emergency Broadcast System went into place in 1963. Before the mid-1970s, this was the only non-test activation permitted (the same rule also applied to the earlier CONELRAD system). The EAN signifies a national emergency, as the wording shows.