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In these times of political, social, and economic upheaval, we take for granted that the latest news is always just a click away on a smartphone. Through apps from traditional media outlets and status updates on social media, it鈥檚 pretty easy to keep up with current events, along with a fair amount of opinion and speculation.

But in times of real emergencies when lives are at stake, it鈥檚 also critical to get news and official information that cuts through the 鈥渓ikes鈥� and 鈥渟hares鈥� and gets to people everywhere as quickly as possible, regardless of Wi-Fi or other internet connections.

That鈥檚 why 成人X站 Radio is proud to have partnered for years with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to provide unique communications facilities and capabilities in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency.

鈥淲ith the help of our partners at FEMA, our stations are prepared to be on the air with lifesaving information,鈥� said Cathy Cangiano, general manager of Bonneville Seattle. 鈥淎nd if the situation is dire enough, every radio station in the Puget Sound area will rebroadcast 成人X站-AM’s signal.鈥�

The AM transmitter鈥檚 location on an island in Puget Sound is only a minor barrier.

鈥淭he Coast Guard has standing orders to meet members of the 成人X站 staff at the Seattle waterfront and rush them to the Vashon transmitter site,鈥� Cangiano said, 鈥渁nd our reporters and anchors are prepared to broadcast to the entire Pacific Northwest if such a crisis arises 鈥� 成人X站 people are among the best there are at gathering the news and getting accurate information on-air.鈥�

The partnership between 成人X站 Radio and FEMA will be commemorated at a special event at the Vashon transmitter site on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. Bonneville leadership and FEMA officials will be on hand to honor decades of working together, as well as to dedicate new and improved communications facilities at the transmitter site, which has served 成人X站-AM listeners for more than 80 years.

At a similar event earlier this year near Boston, Antwane Johnson, director of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System for FEMA, underlined the unique role that terrestrial radio plays in communities around the United States, and why stations like 成人X站-AM have been chosen to serve as what are called 鈥淧rimary Entry Points鈥� for broadcasting during emergencies.

鈥淲e know that when there鈥檚 a catastrophic event, hurricane, tornado, flash flooding 鈥� you name the event 鈥� broadcast radio has been on the air,鈥� Johnson said.

And, Johnson continued, while smartphones are useful most of the time, 鈥淚 know in the case of an emergency, I鈥檓 going to radio to get the information I need from trusted sources who are on-air, providing critical information at the time that people really need that to happen.鈥�

A partnership between a station like 成人X站 Radio and FEMA makes perfect sense to Jason Ornellas, Bonneville鈥檚 regional director of engineering for Sacramento, San Francisco, and Seattle.

鈥淏eing one of the 77 Primary Entry Points for FEMA shows the community that FEMA trusts 成人X站 to serve our community we care about by relaying emergency alert and warning information to the public before, during, and after incidents and disasters,鈥� Ornellas said. 鈥淏onneville takes serving their communities seriously, and this is a terrific partnership with FEMA.鈥�

But even before FEMA existed, 成人X站 Radio was ready more than 80 years ago to serve Puget Sound residents who faced similar challenges to keep abreast of developments as World War II raged in Europe, and as war clouds gathered in the Pacific.

Newspapers that came out once a day were ill-equipped to keep up with fast-moving events overseas. Radio had been around for 20 years, but had been slow to embrace news, and was stymied by restrictions imposed by print media. Technology was improving, and and Adolf Hitler, were using radio to give speeches and speak to citizens directly.

CBS founder William Paley is credited with first seeing radio鈥檚 potential to for an American audience. The improving technology and deteriorating political situation made the late 1930s ripe for radio to become a medium that listeners depended on from early in the morning to late at night.

成人X站 Radio took a well-timed leap forward with its transmitter in early summer 1941, launching a powerful new transmitter on Vashon Island, and becoming the first radio station in the Pacific Northwest to be broadcasting with 50,000 watts of power.

On Sunday, June 29, 1941, at 11:30 a.m., 成人X站 Radio became the most powerful station north of and , and west of Denver. The new facility, technically on Maury Island, was a high-tech showplace, and gorgeous art deco palace of modern radio technology.

With the new transmitter and boosted signal, 成人X站鈥檚 local news and other programs could now be heard far beyond Puget Sound, and well into British Columbia, Oregon, Northern California, and even Alaska. For many listeners in Alaska, 成人X站 would be the first station to provide regular radio service.

As an affiliate of CBS, 成人X站 beamed that network鈥檚 award-winning and iconic news and public affairs programs to tens of thousands of listeners all around the eastern edge of the Pacific Rim. Legendary broadcasters , William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Bob Trout, Howard K. Smith, and others delivered live reports from New York, London, Berlin and other cities, and 成人X站 brought those reports into living rooms in as many five states and most of a Canadian province.

And since many of those CBS live reports were timed for East Coast listeners, 成人X站 took the unusual step of making recordings of complete news programs and then broadcasting them later to better serve listeners in the Pacific time zone. 成人X站 saved all those recordings, and this is well-known in media history circles as one of the first and most valuable radio archives ever created.

成人X站鈥檚 big signal played a role in 1941 far beyond just reporting the news. When , 成人X站 spread the urgent word about the mandatory blackout that followed, and about how people could help respond to the needs of a region now in a war zone. The Army even posted guards at the 成人X站 transmitter.

The war also meant that the FCC froze all other pending power increases, leaving 成人X站 Radio in sole possession of the only 50,000 watt transmitter in the Northwest throughout the first half of the 1940s. As the war in Europe reached its most significant milestone, 成人X站 brought unprecedented live coverage of D-Day to the Pacific Northwest. And when and , 成人X站 brought that coverage home, too.

It might be difficult in 2021 to fully appreciate what 成人X站鈥檚 June 29, 1941, new transmitter and 50,000-watt power increase meant. It鈥檚 no secret that station owner Saul Haas was politically well-connected, and was something of a complex character. Getting permission from the FCC for the power boost was a coup, and the station鈥檚 big signal likely translated into big profits. Radio, after all, has almost always been a business.

But regardless of the commercial considerations, for those new listeners who heard the bad news and then the good news from battlefields overseas by way of the Vashon transmitter, and for whom 成人X站 was a consistent and reliable voice throughout a dark time in world history, radio was a lifeline.

Should disaster ever strike the Pacific Northwest, 成人X站 Radio and Bonneville Seattle is standing by to assist FEMA and to serve our community again in its time of need.

鈥淲e pray it never comes to that, but we’re ready, and we always have been,鈥� Cangiano said. 鈥淚t’s a responsibility we take seriously. We are committed to getting out urgent information when our region needs us. Our partnership with the federal government reaches back generations. And with Friday鈥檚 re-dedication, we stand ready for generations to come.鈥�