Presented by: Larry Wilkins, Alabama Broadcasters Association Director of Engineering The Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program (ABIP) offered by most State Associations, is a valuable way to ensure the station operations...
Read moreWith the official June 1, 2020, start date for hurricane season less than a month away, it is perhaps especially timely for the FCC to have recently released its Report...
Read moreWe write this Friday afternoon regarding an email (copied below) that many of your stations may have received overnight from the FCC about Emergency Alert System (EAS) security. If you...
Read moreA Notice of Apparent Liability (the “Notice”) released last week serves as a reminder of the FCC’s emphasis on the proper use of Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) tones, even amidst...
Read moreWe previously wrote regarding a new security certificate that broadcasters must install in their EAS equipment to be able to decode messages received by the Integrated Public Alert & Warning...
Read moreBroadcasters must install an important update to their EAS equipment by this Friday, November 8, 2019, so that their equipment can continue to properly decode EAS messages via the Integrated...
Read moreThis is a reminder that broadcasters must file the third and final report associated with last month’s nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”), called “Form Three,” by 11:59...
Read moreIn a Notice of Apparent Liability (“Notice”) released last week, the FCC proposed a fine of $272,000 against CBS Corporation and several of its subsidiaries for “apparently willfully and repeatedly”...
Read moreBroadcasters have one more week, until September 23, 2019, to file the third and final report—called Form Three—associated with last month’s nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”). Form...
Read moreCiting multiple flawed filings and failures to follow Commission instructions, the Enforcement Bureau recently issued a Forfeiture Order (the “Order”) affirming a $25,000 penalty against a Pennsylvania church (the “Licensee”)...
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