Bulletin Categories: EAS

The FCC has revised its Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) rules to add three new event codes—Extreme Wind Warning (EWW); Storm Surge Watch (SSA); and Storm Surge Warning (SSW)—to the list...

Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) participants—including all broadcast stations—must, by  July 30, 2016, have EAS equipment capable of processing the new national location code comprised of six zeroes (000000).  In many...

As promised by the FCC back in April, the new Electronic Test Reporting System (“ETRS”) has been launched.  ETRS is the filing system through which all broadcast stations (and other...

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...

  The FCC’s Audible Crawl Rule requires television stations who provide emergency information to viewers through visual-only means during non-newscast programming (for example, through an on-screen crawl) to video describe...

Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) participants must always be prepared, and they will need to be ready to meet an approaching deadline:  July 30, is the compliance deadline for the implementation...

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...