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February 2011 RMT

Tuesday February 8th at 11:22 p.m. and Wednesday February 9th at 12:22 a.m.

for the complete 2011 RMT Schedule click here

The Tennessee Association of Broadcasters is very pleased to announce that the Nashville Mayor's Office of Emergency Management and our governing authorities have agreed to proceed with the first phase for a new, modern, redundant Emergency Alert System (EAS) for Davidson County. In cooperation with Clear Channel Radio in Nashville, the National Weather Service and acting as the state EAS system's first true "civil emergency authority". The MOEM has the potential for statewide testing purposes and actual emergency alerts over radio, cable and television and other devices potentially in Davidson County and Middle Tennessee. This new public notification system and initiation has the technical capabilities as a direct-to-local stations alerting operation for many non-weather related emergency messages.

This cooperation will allow emergency alert messaging to be transmitted to the Local EAS Primary radio stations in Davidson County and other monitoring stations for broadcast directly to the public in times of emergency, at the direction of the Mayor, Governor or local law enforcement.

It is particularly gratifying to the public and broadcasters around Nashville, especially after the devastating floods of May 1st and 2nd of this year. Tennessee's broadcasters take their role as first informers in times of crises very, very seriously, especially in our efforts to save the lives and any threat of death or serious bodily harm by broadcasting warnings to the local listening and viewing audiences we serve.

The TAB would like to thank all of the people on our local EAS committee, comprised of members from the local stations and vendors for their hard work over the past few months in achieving this crucial goal. The new equipment has been installed at the Nashville Mayor's Office of Emergency Management as well as the studios of Clear Channel Radio on Music Row which could also bolster the state's homeland security and emergency response preparedness capability across Tennessee.

To view Tennessee's EAS Plan click here

Tornado Public Service Announcements

April 23

Below we have seven (7) Tornado PSA's that you can download and use on air during this 2010 Tornado Season. There are 4 :30's and 3 :60's. Unfortunately in 2009 Tennessee had so many deaths that due to tornados that keeping the public informed is so important. Please feel free to use these spots. ...

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Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS)

July 02

NAB’s explanation and upcoming campaign to expand broadcaster participation in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) will be discovered in their webcast...

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