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Emergency Broadcast System, the Glossary

The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), sometimes called the Emergency Action Notification System (EANS), was an emergency warning system used in the United States.^[1]

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Aerospace Defense Command

Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Force, responsible for air defense of the continental United States.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Alberta Emergency Alert

Alberta Emergency Alert (AEA) is a public warning system in Alberta that warns the public on impending or occurring emergencies affecting an area.

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The National Public Alerting System (NPAS; Système national d'alertes à la population), branded as Alert Ready, is the national warning system in Canada, broadcast to Canadian television, radio, and wireless devices.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bell character

A bell character (sometimes bell code) is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message.

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Bob and Ray

Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades, composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990).

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) is a California cabinet-level office responsible for overseeing and coordinating emergency preparedness, response, recovery and homeland security activities within the state.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Civ-Alert

Civ-Alert was the civil defense warning system in the U.S. state of Hawaii from 1960 to 1977. Emergency Broadcast System and civ-Alert are Disaster preparedness in the United States and emergency Alert System.

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Common carrier

A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a carrier) is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport.

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CONELRAD

CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation) was a method of emergency broadcasting to the public of the United States in the event of enemy attack during the Cold War. Emergency Broadcast System and CONELRAD are cold War history of the United States, Disaster preparedness in the United States, emergency Alert System, emergency population warning systems, United States civil defense and warning systems.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Emergency Alert System

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 both AM, FM and satellite radio. Emergency Broadcast System and emergency Alert System are cold War history of the United States, Disaster preparedness in the United States, emergency population warning systems and United States civil defense.

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Emergency Broadcast Network

Emergency Broadcast Network is a multimedia performance group formed in 1991 that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System.

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Emergency override system

The Local Access Alert (also known as Local Access System or Emergency Override System) is a system designed to warn radio stations, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals of impending dangers such as severe weather and other civil emergencies. Emergency Broadcast System and emergency override system are Disaster preparedness in the United States, United States civil defense and warning systems.

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Emergency population warning

An emergency population warning is a method where by local, regional, or national authorities can contact members of the public to warn them of an impending emergency. Emergency Broadcast System and emergency population warning are emergency population warning systems.

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Emergency Public Warning System

The Emergency Public Warning System was a system used in the province of Alberta, Canada until October 2011, whereby local or provincial authorities could warn the public about impending or current emergencies affecting their area.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Flash flood warning

A flash flood warning (SAME code: FFW) is a severe weather warning product of the National Weather Service that is issued by national weather forecasting agencies throughout the world to alert the public that a flash flood is imminent or occurring in the warned area.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States.

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Four-minute warning

The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. Emergency Broadcast System and four-minute warning are emergency population warning systems.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Handel (warning system)

Handel was the code-name for the UK's national attack warning system in the Cold War. Emergency Broadcast System and Handel (warning system) are emergency population warning systems.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Hurricane force wind warning

A hurricane force wind warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when sustained winds or frequent gusts of 64 knots (118 km/h, 74 mph) or greater are either being observed or are predicted to occur.

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Independent station

An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast network.

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Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than, primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

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J-Alert

J-Alert (J Arāto; full name label) is the early warning system used in Japan. Emergency Broadcast System and j-Alert are emergency population warning systems.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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KSTP-TV

KSTP-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of ABC.

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KWEX-DT

KWEX-DT (channel 41) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language network Univision.

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KYOT

KYOT (95.5 FM) is a commercial adult hits music radio station located in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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National Emergency Message

A National Emergency Message (SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national or global emergency such as a nuclear war or any other mass casualty situation. Emergency Broadcast System and national Emergency Message are emergency Alert System.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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News agency

A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Public Warning System (Singapore)

The Public Warning System (PWS) is a network of civil defense sirens installed by the Singapore Civil Defence Force on over 2,000 strategic points in Singapore to warn Singaporeans of impending dangers, air raids and atomic bomb blasts. Emergency Broadcast System and Public Warning System (Singapore) are emergency population warning systems.

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Radio network

There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio (duplex communication) type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (often abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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Severe weather

Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Teleprinter

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.

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Teletype Corporation

The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.

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Television broadcaster

A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.

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Tornado warning

A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take cover.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Wartime Broadcasting Service

The Wartime Broadcasting Service is a service of the BBC that is intended to broadcast in the United Kingdom either after a nuclear attack or if conventional bombing destroyed regular BBC facilities in a conventional war. Emergency Broadcast System and Wartime Broadcasting Service are emergency population warning systems.

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WCCO (AM)

WCCO (830 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and owned by Audacy, Inc. Its studios and offices are located on Second Avenue South in Downtown Minneapolis.

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WFSB

WFSB (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Hartford, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of CBS.

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WGR

WGR (550 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Buffalo, New York.

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WHEN (AM)

WHEN (620 kHz "Power 620") is a commercial AM radio station in Syracuse, New York.

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White House Communications Agency

The White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Corps (WHSC) and then the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the United States Department of War on March 25, 1942 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11), is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers.

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WOWO

WOWO (1190 AM) – branded News/Talk WOWO 92.3 FM 1190 AM – is a commercial talk radio station licensed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving primarily the Fort Wayne metropolitan area.

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WRTI

WRTI (90.1 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with ABC.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System

Also known as EBS test, Emergency Action Notification System, Emergency Broadcast System false alarm, Emergency Broadcasting System, Emergency broadcast, Ten bell alarm, Ten-bell alarm, The emergency broadcast system.

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Emergency Broadcast System, the Glossary

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See also

1997 disestablishments in the United States

American companies established in 1963

Companies disestablished in 1997

Emergency Alert System

Emergency population warning systems

United States civil defense

References