Archival Adventures: WUVT and the Emergency Broadcast System
Archival Adventures: WUVT and the Emergency Broadcast System
It's time for an adventure!
This is a test of the emergency action notification system. If this had been an actual emergency…
This week, we’re heading to the mid-20th Century to explore the Emergency Broadcast System with the records of Virginia Tech’s student radio station WUVT.
WUVT started as a pirate radio station, illegally broadcasting in September. If officially registered and became Virginia Tech’s student radio station on April 1, 1948. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) in 1963. WUVT became an outlet for the EBS and we’ll use their records (https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_3967.xml) to explore this centralized U.S. alert system.
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- Date:
- Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 4:30pm
- Audience:
- Advanced Alumni Beginners Faculty/Staff Graduate Students Postdoc Public Undergraduates
- Categories:
- Event > Livestream
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