WASHINGTON Two prominent EAS equipment manufacturers weighed in with separate comments about the FCC proposal to add a Blue Alert code to EAS. In a three-page response, Sage Alerting Systems answered ...

WASHINGTON The National Association of Broadcasters supports the idea of adding a new Blue Alert event code to EAS but asked the FCC to model any such program after the successful AMBER Alerts. The ...

due to limitations in the EAS, the video test message scroll may not be the same or indicate that "This is a test." This is due to the use of the live EAN code — the same code that would be used ...

approved a Report and Order that would amend the Commission’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules to add a dedicated event code to facilitate the delivery of Blue Alerts over the EAS and ...

The proposal, in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) adopted today, would amend the FCC’s EAS rules by creating a dedicated Blue Alert event code so that state and local agencies have the ...

Scroll down for video In its advisory, the federal agency encouraged EAS participants to ensure that: 'EAS devices and supporting systems are up to date with the most recent software versions ...