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Tue 12 Dec 2008All quiet on the airwaves during testing time
The State’s radio and television airwaves fell silent for the first time early this morning as part of a Government exercise on giving urgent messages to the nation.
At 4.45am the Department of Communications carried out a 30-second engineering test on all television and radio channels.
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