Look for some grumbling from radio listeners and television viewers at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday when the Emergency Alert System interrupts programming for the first simultaneous nationwide test, anticipates Grumpy Editor.
Originally planned for three minutes, the test is scaled back to 30 seconds after objections from the cable TV industry.
The test is designed to ensure national leaders can communicate quickly with people in an emergency.
Suspicious minds are thinking:
Why now? Could some large-scale event be brewing? What if power is out, complicating radio and TV transmissions, thus negating broadcast warnings?
Others may ask why not revert to World War II alerts with sirens? That would cover people who are unable to tune in to radio or TV or simply do not have radio or TV sets on.
The national Emergency Alert System is designed to be activated by the president.
Although the EAS is tested on a weekly or a monthly basis at the state or local level, the Federal Communications Commission says “there has never been an end-to-end nationwide test of the system.”
The FCC adds it needs “to know that the system will work as intended should public safety officials ever need to send an alert or warning to a large region of the United States. Only a complete, top-down test of the EAS can provide an appropriate diagnosis of the system’s performance.”
Updates are good ideas to consider and the advancement of our technology can offer us enough information about certain stuff we are eager to find.
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