On August 11, 2021, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct a nationwide test ...

In August, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network known as ESPN received a proposed fine from the FCC in the amount of $20,000 for its use of an emergency alert system (EAS) code during a ...

WASHINGTON—The FCC Enforcement Bureau has issued a $20K fine against ESPN for “willfully violating the Commission’s rules that prohibit the transmission of false or deceptive emergency alert system” ...

You may receive a test emergency alert from the government around 1:20 p.m. CT Wednesday. It will have a special, jarring tone, that some describe as loud, that will be repeated twice and a vibration.

Not according to the NAB, which stated pure-play streamers are not “well-positioned to participate in the existing EAS ecosystem.” The NAB has requested the FCC report to Congress that enabling EAS ...