“This is only a test” … of the country’s new Emergency Alert System (EAS). That was the message from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after a day in which the audio tones that were ...

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 ...

ABILENE, Texas - Zombies: they're the subject of popular TV shows, movies and even here in the Big Country. Zombies have made it to Buffalo Gap. They appeared along the runner's path for the 5K. But ...

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 FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has released a Public Notice announcing that the Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test Reporting System (ETRS) is open now through October 3 for EAS ...

The FCC has updated its Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules to make emergency alerts easier for the public to understand and more accessible to those with certain disabilities. EAS messages are ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEMA recently became aware of certain vulnerabilities in EAS encoder/decoder devices that, if not updated to most recent software versions, could allow an actor to issue EAS alerts over the host ...