“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—Anecdotal evidence points to general success of yesterday’s national EAS system test, according to broadcasters and a major EAS equipment vendor. However, despite the test’s overall success ...

Sage Alerting Systems will demonstrate virtualized Emergency Alert System alerting at the Orban Labs booth at the NAB Show.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...