From June 10-12, 2024, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (the “PSHSB”) will conduct a voluntary exercise regarding the Disaster Information Reporting System (“DIRS”). According to a recent...
Read moreAccording to a recently released Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”), the long-time voluntary nature of broadcasters’ participation in the Disaster Information Reporting System (“DIRS”) may soon be coming to...
Read moreIn a recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM”) the FCC announced that it is seeking comment on numerous issues related to the reliability and resiliency of communications networks during emergencies, including...
Read moreWith Hurricane Florence bearing down on the East Coast, the FCC has elected to cancel its voluntary DIRS 2018 exercise that had been scheduled for September 13 – 14, 2018...
Read moreLast week, we provided information about the FCC’s August 15 email notification that a DIRS 2018 exercise would be conducted August 23 – 24. (“DIRS” is the abbreviation for the...
Read moreOn August 15, numerous broadcast stations received an unsolicited email from a sender identified as FCC-Disaster@fcc.gov. The subject line of the email was “DIRS 2018 EXERCISE”. “DIRS” is the abbreviation...
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