Radio World’s Masked Engineer Is Fed Up With the Failings of the Emergency Alert System The Emergency Alert System. That morphed version of Conelrad and EBS held over from the Cold War we love to hate ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ten years ago the FCC adopted rules that replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), a system ...

Given some of the most shocking emergency events of the past decade, whether on school campuses, severe weather conditions, or the overall climate of hyper-awareness in the United States following ...

I still get P-O’d when I see the “system” gearing up for another unfunded mandate. Granted, the latest “idea du jour” concerning emergency warnings has been perpetuated by many owners just looking for ...

Several months ago, I shared my thoughts in this space about our country’s Emergency Alert System, explaining its somewhat tortuous history and underpinnings. In my rant I concluded that the EAS ...

For some people it may seem like yesterday that we replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) [a term that people still use] with the Emergency Alert System (EAS). What I know about the technical ...

I wish I could say that I was surprised that the so-called first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) was a bust. During my past life doing public affairs work, one of my successes was ...

Federal officials stage a nationwide test to develop a next-generation approach to informing citizens. In the next two years, federal officials plan to unveil a new means for providing emergency ...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently announced emergency public communications systems for New York City, which ensures that vital information can be broadcast to the general public through the ...

Perhaps you don’t remember because it never happened. Neither the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) nor its successor, the Emergency Alert System (EAS), made a peep on 9/11. The lack of noise sparked a ...