The Emergency Broadcast
System (EBS) was an emergency warning system used in the United
States that replaced the
CONELRAD system. EBS
was used from 1963 to 1997, at which point it was replaced by the
Emergency Alert System.
While the system was never used
nationally, it was activated over 20,000 times to broadcast civil emergency
and warning messages for weather hazards. Many people today remember
the incessant noise of the broadcast usually during late night hours but
also, sometimes, during normal daytime through evening hours.
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