Public radio station executive Judy Diaz fears that an arid landscape for local news on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is about to become even more parched. In the next month, the U.S. Senate will decide ...

The first national emergency broadcasting system in the U.S. was created in 1951 as a way for the government to use radio networks to warn the nation of an enemy attack during the Cold War.

A sample Emergency Alert System broadcast. Note the digital sounds of the alert data and the warning message cut-in. Don’t play this on radio or TV lest you want the attention of the FCC.

Your electronic devices may have alarmed you on Wednesday — and there's a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system started broadcasting just before 2:20 p.m. EDT ...

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency will launch its first nationwide test of its emergency broadcast system at 2 p.m. Wednesday via television and radio. Visit www.fema.gov for more information.

• Broadcasting is a highly survivable medium. With wide area coverage, geographic diversity of stations, lack of intermediate potential points of failure between transmitters and receivers, evolved ...

The Emergency Broadcast System is getting a modern-day upgrade -- moving from the television to the cell phone. Communications company Alcatel-Lucent recently announced the creation of the ...

An errant Emergency Broadcast System transmission made television watchers and radio listeners worry about the threat of nuclear war on Feb. 20, 1971.