As severe weather moves across the Southeast, people across the region can tune into XM Satellite Radio for storm reports and public safety information.The XM Emergency Alert (ch 247) channel is tracking the storms, reporting on damages, and telling listeners in the storms’ path how to protect themselves. All for free.
If you have an XM receiver in your car but you don’t subscribe to the XM service, you can still listen to this channel for free 24 hours a day.
The Emergency Alert channel was added to the XM channel line-up back in September 2004 during the series of hurricanes - Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne - that devastated the Gulf Coast region.
So David Rehr and the NAB, now that towers got knocked down , and power is out , how do you expect to get emergency information out ?
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And yet, politicians feel the need to stop these kinds of broadcasts.
This is how satellite radio can really help out in local disasters. Stupid NAB is trying to stop this kind of thing--shows how selfish they are.