[EAS] PEP & KCBS

[Suzanne Goucher]

 I remember quite well driving on the Maine Turnpike in February 1971, going skiing at Sugarloaf, listening to WBZ, hearing the false missile alert that went to PEP stations over EBS, and hearing the confusion as Carl DeSuze tried to decipher the information.

 On Aug 31, 2021, at 7:13 PM, Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com wrote:
 
 On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Suzanne Goucher wrote:
 I still remember how excited Antwane Johnson of FEMA was, five or six years ago (maybe longer), when he told me that Arbitron numbers showed Maine qualified to get a PEP station, based on population numbers.
 
 By my last (unofficial, unclassified) count PEP/NPWS sources
 
 66 AM stations
 7 FM stations
 3 satellite feeds (npr, premier, siriusxm)
 1 other source (hawaii)
 1 not broadcasting (silent, american samoa)
 
 78 total
 
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