Bulletin Categories: EAS

We have two Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) developments on which to report: the creation of the “Alert Reporting System,” and the results of the third nationwide test of the EAS....

Since November 2015, all TV stations have been required to comply with the FCC’s Audible Crawl Rule, which requires stations to video describe emergency information on a secondary audio stream...

All stations must file their Form Three report for the September 27 nationwide EAS test by November 13, 2017.  As you know, FEMA and the FCC conducted a nationwide test...

As all stations should be aware, FEMA and the FCC conducted a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) on September 27, 2017.  As we previously advised, all stations...

As you know, the FCC in 2016 resolved a decade-old petition relating to multilingual EAS messages by declining to adopt any multilingual EAS alerting requirements, except that the FCC did...

As all stations should be aware, FEMA and the FCC conducted a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) on September 27, 2017.  All stations should have filed their...

As we have reported previously, the FCC in 2016 resolved a decade-old petition relating to multilingual EAS messages by declining to adopt any multilingual EAS alerting requirements.  (The FCC’s decision...

The nationwide EAS test was conducted Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 2:20 p.m.  Now that the test is complete, all broadcasters must file EAS Form Two Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 11:59...

On Tuesday, September 27, 2017, at 2:20 p.m., FEMA and the FCC will conduct a nationwide test of the EAS.  All broadcast stations are required to participate.  Multicasting stations must...

In late July, the FCC released a Public Notice announcing the issuance of a new EAS Operating Handbook for all broadcast stations.  View the EAS Operating Handbook. Until now, stations should...