“This is a test of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. The FCC just heard unauthorized EAS tones on your station. If this was not a real emergency, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau will be contacting you ...

Come Thursday (9/20), unless delayed by a real emergency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the FCC are on track to conduct a combined nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and ...

Some elements on sports broadcasts sometimes lead to FCC fines (see the 2004 Super Bowl), but it’s rare to see a fine levied over a rebroadcast of a documentary nine years after that documentary first ...

Oct. 17 (UPI) --ESPN improperly used Emergency Alert System tones to draw attention to pending NBA broadcasts in 2023 and should be fined $146,976, the Federal Communications Commission announced ...

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine against ESPN for allegedly violating Emergency Alert System rules during a promotional segment for the 2023-2024 NBA season. According to the ...

Yesterday, the FCC released a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture against CBS for false EAS alerting, which is FCC-speak for “CBS, tell us why we shouldn’t fine you $272,000 for airing a fake ...

WASHINGTON—The FCC has proposed a $272,000 fine against CBS for allegedly broadcasting a simulated Emergency Alert System (EAS) tone during a nationally televised episode of the sitcom “Young Sheldon.

No less than three Emergency Alert System violations against the parent of one of the nation’s Big Four broadcast television networks have been resolved with the signing of a Consent Decree by the ...

iHeartCommunications has admitted causing what the Federal Communications Commission called a “multi-state cascade” of false emergency alerts on radio and TV stations and agreed to pay a $1 million ...

Chyron at the NAB Show introduced EAS HD, a turnkey high-definition solution for inserting high-quality Emergency Alert System crawls and audio alerts. Built as an appliance, EAS HD supports all major ...

WASHINGTON — In the weeks since the national EAS test, the FCC and FEMA have continued to collect data about whether broadcasters received the test message and were able to retransmit it. Broadcasters ...