What is Emergency broadcast system and it works?
“Emergency broadcast system was first established to provide the President of the United States with an expeditious method of communicating with the American public in the event of war, threat of war, or grave national crisis.” [1] And in later years, it was expanded for use during peacetime emergencies at the state and local levels. In brief, emergency broadcast, according to my vision, is a system that controlled by the government to broadcast civil emergency messages and warnings through TV or radio. Nowadays, most of the EBS is used for broadcasting the warning of weather hazard. Meanwhile, from Wikipedia encyclopedia, “the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) was an emergency warning system in the United States, used from 1963 to 1997, when it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System. “[2] “Until the system was superseded, radio and television stations were required to perform a Weekly Transmission Test of the Attention Signal and Test Script on random days and times between 8:30 A.
