[Shalmaneser]

I, too, worked behind the mic during the Cold War years, and I also carefully reviewed the EBS bill. Scary stuff.

Aircheck, Bob Sievers, WOWO-AM 1190, Fort Wayne Ind., 20 February 1971:
One of the most frightening moments in broadcasting history

What happened and what it was like

[hoagy62]

I’ve heard that aircheck before. I can only imagine what was going through their heads as this unfolded.

And, when I read the website that you posted with all the links about what happened that day, I found out I was ‘sort-of’ wrong about the system having never been tested nationally. In 1956, there was a national test of the CONELRAD system. It wasn’t the same as the EBS, but it was national, and stations actually signed off or re-tuned to their assigned CONELRAD frequencies. It only lasted about 15 minutes.

[Straight Vermonter]

Wild. I had never heard of that before. Of course I was only a year old at the time.