When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. “This is only a test” … of the country’s new Emergency Alert System (EAS). That was the message ...

U.S. broadcaster representatives, FCC officials and technology manufacturers continue to discuss how the EAS system could be transitioned to a software-based infrastructure. As we’ve reported, the ...

The NAB has again met with the FCC to outline its priorities for broadcasters as the agency reexamines the Emergency Alert ...

WASHINGTON—EAS participants, listen up: It’s time to update your info in the FCC’s EAS Test Reporting System. We reported earlier that the next national test is scheduled for September. Now the FCC ...

For broadcasters, interacting with FCC databases has sometimes been a source of frustration. But the commission is hopeful that a planned new system to report the outcome of nationwide EAS tests will ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It was only a test but for many people across the state, they didn't hear anything during the nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. The idea was to test that EAS because ...

The NAB on Friday filed comments with the FCC regarding a proposal to extend the Emergency Alert System to the Internet — including through streaming services. Congress is requesting a study of the ...

Hey everybody! There is a warning system called the Emergency Alert System (EAS) that can be used to issue warnings. Why aren’t more emergency managers using it? When EAS was fielded it had the ...

Electronic article surveillance (EAS) system specialist provider Checkpoint Systems has developed Apparel-Track, an item-tagging system for clothing retailers that combines EAS and RFID technologies ...

Digital Alert Systems is using the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas to introduce what it says is “a one-of-a-kind, highly specialized management system capable of overseeing all encoders/decoders and ...