The Nevada Broadcaster (Newsletter) Archives
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| Jan 25, 2011 |
| 2011 Nevada Broadcasters Day |
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| Jan 24, 2011 |
| Shared Sacrifice |
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| Jan 18, 2011 |
| All Eyes and Ears on Carson City |
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| Jan 13, 2011 |
| Nevada Remembers |
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Throughout today, communities across the state of Nevada and all across America -- will observe National AMBER Alert Awareness Day – a day to recognize the collaborative efforts and successes of the AMBER Alert program to assist in the recovery of abducted children whose lives are thought to be in danger.
The AMBER Alert Program, created after the 1996 abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and transportation agencies. Here in Nevada, an alert is initiated by a local law enforcement agency. The agency activates an urgent bulletin -- sent out through the Emergency Alert System and aired over local radio, television and cable. The alert then expands through message road signs, the internet, (AMBER Alert websites and the new technology of social media.)
Here in Nevada, AMBER Alert is not overused. We have a strict criteria for activation. And some of the toughest laws in the country if someone lies to local law enforcement resulting in a false activation. To do so is a felony. With so few alerts in a year -- Nevadan's know then when there is an activation, the situation is serious. At stake is the life of an abducted child, |
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| Jan 06, 2011 |
| Nevada Will be Nevada Again |
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