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  2. Emergency Broadcast System - Wikipedia

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    The Emergency Broadcast System ( EBS ), sometimes called the Emergency Action Notification System ( EANS ), was an emergency warning system used in the United States. It was the most commonly used, along with the Emergency Override system. It replaced the previous CONELRAD system and was used from 1963 to 1997, at which point it was replaced by ...

  3. Bumper (broadcasting) - Wikipedia

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    Bumper (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a commercial bumper, ident bumper, or break-bumper (often shortened to bump) is a brief announcement, usually two to fifteen seconds in length that can contain a voice over, placed between a pause in the program and its commercial break, and vice versa. The host, the program announcer, or a continuity ...

  4. News ticker - Wikipedia

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    An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, or ticker tape) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space on a ...

  5. Four-minute warning - Wikipedia

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    Sample script. The following is a script that would have been broadcast in the aftermath of an attack, available from the BBC: This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known.

  6. Station identification - Wikipedia

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    Station identification. Station identification ( ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or ...

  7. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words. The seven dirty words are seven English-language curse words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue.

  8. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Broadcast System, Local Access Alert. The Emergency Alert System ( EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio.

  9. News broadcasting - Wikipedia

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    t. e. News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network. A news broadcast may include material such as ...