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First Warning is a severe weather warning system designed for broadcast television stations, typically those in the United States. A weather advisory product based on First Warning, called First Alert, is an automated version of this product, which has come into widespread use by television stations and is marketed under different names depending on the graphics service vendor.
The early stages of Fios began when Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications) was testing its video service "Stargazer" in 1995. This was the first commercial video on demand (VOD) service, which was tested for 1,000 homes in Northern Virginia. [1] During this time there were talks of developing a fiber optic-based service.
In late 2020, Frontier dropped the FiOS branding, renaming the service Frontier FiberOptic. In 2021, Frontier discontinued its in-house TV services and partnered with YouTube TV, freeing up its bandwidth for internet and phone. Frontier customers were paying the two services separately until March 27, 2023 when the companies offered integrated ...
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of December 31, 2024.
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...
FiOS1 was a news-based pay television network that was carried by Verizon Fios in the New York metropolitan area.Launched on June 22, 2009 in Long Island and New Jersey and later on May 28, 2014 in the Lower Hudson Valley, FiOS1 provided hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports and also original programming.
Life Alert Emergency Response, Inc., known as life alert, is a nationwide [1] American device service company, with headquarters in Encino, California, USA, which provides services that help young and old elderly people contact emergency services. The company was founded in 1987.
Unlike other messages, the EAN was not the alert itself, but rather a notice that the activation is beginning. [7] After the End of Message (EOM) tones were sent, normal programming did not resume. Instead, most stations were to broadcast emergency information in a specific priority order. Messages from the President are always broadcast first.