Bulletin Categories: EAS

The FCC recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Inquiry (separately, the “NPRM” and “NOI”; collectively, the “Notices”) “to explore opportunities to improve the way the public...

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau recently issued a Public Notice (the “Notice”) reminding broadcasters (and all emergency alert system (“EAS”) participants) of their EAS compliance obligations and warning of the potential...

A Florida low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee has received a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notice”) proposing the second-highest fine addressed in this memo—$25,000—for the licensee’s apparent failures...

With the official June 1, 2020, start date for hurricane season less than a month away, it is perhaps especially timely for the FCC to have recently released its Report...

We write this Friday afternoon regarding an email (copied below) that many of your stations may have received overnight from the FCC about Emergency Alert System (EAS) security. If you...

A Notice of Apparent Liability (the “Notice”) released last week serves as a reminder of the FCC’s emphasis on the proper use of Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) tones, even amidst...

We previously wrote regarding a new security certificate that broadcasters must install in their EAS equipment to be able to decode messages received by the Integrated Public Alert & Warning...

Broadcasters must install an important update to their EAS equipment by this Friday, November 8, 2019, so that their equipment can continue to properly decode EAS messages via the Integrated...

This is a reminder that broadcasters must file the third and final report associated with last month’s nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”), called “Form Three,” by 11:59...

In a Notice of Apparent Liability (“Notice”) released last week, the FCC proposed a fine of $272,000 against CBS Corporation and several of its subsidiaries for “apparently willfully and repeatedly”...