Bulletin Categories: EAS

As participants in the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”), broadcasters are, from time-to- time, involved in disseminating earthquake-related EAS alerts.  Recently, by issuance of a  Public Notice, the FCC initiated an...

The FCC issued a Public Notice (“Notice”) in April, announcing that the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) Test Reporting System (“ETRS”) will launch later this year.  (Generally, ETRS is intended to...

The FCC has released a new Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) order (“the Order”) to address a decade-old petition relating to multilingual EAS messages.  The Order was in response to a...

April Fools’ Day is just a few days away, which means that station personnel may be considering April Fools’ Day related programming.  Stations should remain mindful of the FCC’s “Hoax...

The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Notice”) which proposes methods to improve the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) through which broadcasters and other participants disseminate emergency information....

The deadline for compliance by television stations with the new Audible Crawl Rules is rapidly approaching. As we have advised previously, the new rules require that “emergency information” provided visually...

In early June, the Commission released a new Order, which, according to the FCC, is intended to “improve the operation and exercise” of the EAS and “reaffirm the FCC’s commitment...

The stick the FCC is using to curb the misuse of EAS tones is growing larger.  A media company recently agreed to pay a fine of one million dollars in...

The calendar is nearly a week into March already, which means broadcasters need to consider at least three compliance issues.  Broadcasters need to consider myriad FCC operational compliance issues on...

As of May 26, 2015, the FCC’s new rules requiring video description (also sometimes referred to as “audio description”) of emergency information provided visually during non-newscast programming will become effective for...