Bulletin Categories: EAS

October 3, 2025, is the deadline by which EAS Participants, including all broadcast stations (with a few, extremely limited exceptions), must complete and file the annual “Form One” in the...

Today, September 8, 2025, marks the formal effective date for the FCC’s recent Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) rule changes to implement the new “Missing and Endangered Persons” (“MEP”) EAS alert...

The FCC recently set comment deadlines for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) issued in a new proceeding aptly titled “Modernization of the Nation’s Alerting Systems.” According to the NPRM,...

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has announced that the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) Test Reporting System (“ETRS”) is now open for broadcasters’ annual “Form One” filings. This...

On the afternoon of May 12, 2025, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order (the “Order”) granting another extension of the long-standing waiver of the portion of...

At the end of March, NAB filed a Petition for Rulemaking (the “Petition”) requesting that the FCC modify its emergency alert system (“EAS”) rules to allow broadcasters to voluntarily use...

A recent FCC Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notice”) once again places ESPN, Inc. (“ESPN”) in the Commission’s crosshairs for apparently violating the FCC’s rules prohibiting the transmission...

As we have previously written, Friday, October 18, 2024, is the extended deadline by which all EAS Participants, including all broadcast stations (with a few, extremely limited exceptions), must complete...

As we have previously written, October 4, 2024, is the deadline by which all EAS Participants, including all broadcast stations (with a few, extremely limited exceptions), must complete and file...

Recently, the FCC released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (the “Order”), in which the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau denied a Florida LPFM station’s (“Station”) Petition for Reconsideration (the “Petition”)...