Ten years ago the FCC adopted rules that replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), a system in use for about 20 years, with the Emergency Alert System, or EAS. Both systems had their start in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine a worse way to be awoken on a Saturday morning in paradise than with a blaring Klaxon accompanying a government alert about an inbound ballistic-missile attack. But that’s exactly ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some reason I don't recall having national Emergency Alert System (EAS) tests back when I was a local emergency manager. Maybe they were part of the regularly scheduled monthly tests and I just ...