Bulletin Categories: EAS

Another media company has been subjected to a significant financial penalty in connection with airing simulated EAS tones for a purpose other than a test or an actual EAS alert. ...

Drawing on the success of AMBER Alerts distributed via EAS, Chairman Pai has announced that the Commission will vote in June on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to add a...

June 1, 2017, marks the official start of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which means that it is also the date that NOAA/NWS will begin making use of the three...

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (the “Bureau”) has released its Report on the nationwide Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) test conducted on September 28, 2016, by the Federal...

On December 28, 2016, the FCC released a Public Notice providing an “initial overview” of the results of the nationwide EAS (Emergency Alert System) test conducted on September 28, 2016. ...

The FCC released a Public Notice reminding EAS Participants—including ALL broadcast stations—of the rapidly-approaching November 14 deadline for filing their EAS Form Three reports. As we have previously advised, Form...

As all stations should be aware, FEMA and the FCC conducted a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) on September 28, 2016.  As we previously advised, all stations...

The nationwide EAS test was conducted today, September 28, 2016, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”).  Now that the test is complete, all broadcasters must file EAS Form Two by...

As we have previously advised, the FCC and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) have scheduled a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) for Wednesday, September 28, 2016.  (The...

As we have previously advised, the FCC and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) have scheduled a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) for Wednesday, September 28.  (The test...