My SAME weather radio allows me to receive only the alerts I want. In other words, not only do you get to specify the region, you also choose "flooding warning" vs "tornado warning," etc. You can turn off Amber alerts for sure.

It seems like all SAME weather radio should offer this functionality, otherwise it's going to be beeping all the time. Perhaps check your manual?

LOL -- after reading this post I started looking at Sony AM/FM pocket radios and found the Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio -- duh!! I have that radio in the truck's survival kit, batteries removed. Good radio, I won't say bombproof, but close to it. The 1xAA non-prison radio Blast linked to gets more time on a single battery but it's using a small headset (3.6mWx2) rather than a speaker (100mW). With a headset I'd expect the battery life to significantly increase.
FWIW

Interesting. I have two Oregon Scientific portable weather radios with SAME and neither one lets you select which type of alert you can hear. It makes sense, though, for people who know what they're doing.

Mine is from Radio Shack. You can download the manual from most manufacturers these days. I wouldn't get a weather radio that doesn't give you an option. It will wake you up in the middle of the night for things that may have little to do with you.

Mine was pre-SAME so the high number of alerts basically made it useless so I need to replace it.
Come to think of it my pro-97 will display the SAME text, I wonder if it can filter.

i'm with Bingley. i've tried a number of radios (am, fm, shortwave) over the last 30 years here in the wilderness but been most happy with the cheap & simple $10 sony ICF-S10MK2

I liked the idea of a radio for my GHB that would run on a single AA battery so I dropped by the local Fry's and found the Sony SRF-59 AM/FM Radio which is the non-prison version. The radio works fine with a strong AM station in local, but not-so-much for any FM station I could find in "Local" mode. Switching to DX mode the FM was pretty good for a very simple radio. I see no reason to use local unless you are simply too close to the transmitter. The instructions recommend a 1.5V alkaline but I tested it with a NiMH rechargeable battery and it worked fine. The headset that came in the plastic package used up too much real estate for my GHB so I replaced it with Sony lightweight earbuds.

That said, I still prefer the audio from my 2xAA Sony ICF-S10Mk2. It has a real antenna rather than using the headset cord for FM, but you still need a headset to get stereo cuz it only has one speaker. Still for a radio to use while walking, one that uses the headset cord may be preferable since the telescoping antenna doesn't work well in your pocket. Tradeoffs.

I have a little Sony SRF-M37W that I picked up as a refurbished unit at a factory outlet fixe or six years back. I think I only paid about $20 or 30 for it, but I got it because it runs off a single AAA battery and receives NOAA Weather band in addition to AM/FM.

It appears to now be a discontinued model, but there seem to be quite a few around on ebay for good prices.

It has ridden around in my computer bag since I bought it, and it still does its job just fine.

A question that's been in the back of my mind for a long time is what happened to 9V transistor radios? My first radio as a child was a small, red AM-only Radio Shack radio that ran on a 9V battery. Listened to a lot of baseball games on it.

Did 9V radios disappear because voltage boosting circuitry is so cheap and common now? Or do the components just require less voltage than they used to?

I suspect it's because voltage boosting circuits became easier and cheaper to install. The components are smaller and run from a lower voltage so no need to boost the voltage. Also, AA and AAA batteries are ubiquitous and much less expensive than 9V batteries. And nobody likes them.

For myself, I have a couple spare 9V batteries for a specific piece of equipment (cable tracer) that I use only very rarely, but otherwise those batteries are out of my life.