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.

He signed off from a studio desk with the alarm still going off in the background. Hanson posted on X , formerly Twitter, shortly after the broadcast ended to give an update that the scare was over.

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.

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We’re only a few weeks away from a massive test of the country’s emergency broadcast system. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET (1:20 p.m. CT), cell phones, TVs and radios across the U.S ...

Don’t panic. It’s only a test. A nationwide test, that is. At about 2:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, every cellphone, television set and radio in the country will emit the familiar beeping n… ...

"Apple is going to do an update on all phones to shut off the emergency broadcast system. This is Nazi Germany 1938," Wood's post states. "Turn your auto update toggle off." ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – If you tune your radio to AM 530 in central and northern portions of Santa Barbara County, you will be able to listen to ...