I am thinking that this has actually been true for many presidents before Obama, because they always interrupt the regular programming for the test of the Emeregency Broadcast System.
They something like, We interrupt this program to bring you a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, if you can not hear this test, please notify________. If there is a real emergency, you would be advised which station to listen to.
Then at the end, they say this has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
They have been doing that since I was a child. Is there some new capability that has been passed recently?
Yes, last year, the government has bypassed the normal Emergency Broadcast System as that was a cooperation among stations and was not over the entire country at once.
Hussein's emergency system is housed in Homeland Security and is independent over all the country. That is why they picked one day this past year to test this - because it was new and all inclusive. We were told which day and the time it would happen. All TV stations and radio stations were “relieved of duty”, their control was taken completely away by Homeland Security, whether the stations wanted to do that or not.
After the test, Homeland Security said they had some adjustments to make for it to be a complete success. This came about by one of Husseins new executive orders.