The nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System in October produced much better percentages for both receipt and retransmission than a test in 2021, according to the FCC. But issues still remain.

The FCC’s Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau has announced that technical updates to the EAS Test Reporting System (“ETRS”) have been completed and the ETRS is open and available to accept ...

On September 30, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Report and Order (Order) updating its Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules with the stated goal of making EAS alerts more ...

A test date for the next national EAS test will be announced soon. Radio World has confirmed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct the next national test of the Emergency Alert ...

This article was first published in the newsletter of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and is republished here with permission. As 2022 comes to a close, stations are busily ...