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- Whit Adamson recently retired after 33 years as president of the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently conducted a nationwide test to assess the current capabilities of the national and statewide Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on Aug. 11.
You either saw or heard the video crawls and audio alerts, the test message read or said: “THIS IS A TEST of the Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”
It was the sixth national EAS test and the second national WEA test…