Communications and Emergency Management

Materials document WANN Radio's attempts to comply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) laws, regulations, emergency operation plans and technological innovations. These materials include correspondence, application forms, reports, operation plans, legal documents and training materials. Blum was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission's National Industry Advisory Committee in 1958 and served on subsequent commission committees. His committee work included working on the deployment of CONELRAD, the Cold War predecessor to the Emergency Broadcasting System and Emergency Alert System; the development of the two-tone Emergency Broadcast System attention signal; and field tests to develop the current Emergency Alert System. Blum also served as the first chair of the Maryland State Emergency Communications Committee; thus there is a substantial amount of material relating to these activities. In addition, a statement by Morris Blum before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1963 relating to advertising on broadcast stations is also found among these materials. The materials are arranged in chronological order.