American Public Media has received a particularly costly reminder of the FCC’s zero-tolerance stance on improper Emergency Alert System tone use after tones were inadvertently aired across nearly 550 ...

No less than three Emergency Alert System violations against the parent of one of the nation’s Big Four broadcast television networks have been resolved with the signing of a Consent Decree by the ...

Millions of cell phones, TVs and radios in the United States blared distinctive emergency alert tones for about a minute at 2:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday, followed by the message: "THIS IS A TEST of the ...

Hackers have been hijacking US radio transmission equipment to air bogus emergency tones and offensive material, according to a notice issued Wednesday by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC ...