WNDY-TV Emergency Alert System - Required Weekly Test (February 24, 1997)

This used to be the oldest EAS Test activation recoeded until May 2026 when the oldest EAS activation came to the record books with a January 8, 1997 RWT on WGGS-TV in Greenville, South Carolina. This was also the oldest audio activation of the SAGE EAS ENDEC, despite the crawl not presenting here. A true fun fact is that the SAGE EAS ENDEC had already been introduced exactly one year and a couple of months beforehand since its first installation at WVXU-FM in Cincinnati, which that station became the first ever in the nation to both implement and activate the Emergency Alert System on January 26, 1996, before the EBS/EAS transition and almost 30 years ago. Special credit to Ken's Classic Video Vault. Original link: https://rumble.com/v5aqdsq-february-2...