American Public Media has received a particularly costly reminder of the FCC’s zero-tolerance stance on improper Emergency Alert System tone use after tones were inadvertently aired across nearly 550 ...

A program that aired on more than 500 U.S. noncommercial radio stations in 2023 contained Emergency Alert System tones in the absence of a real emergency, according to the FCC. American Public Media ...

Did you see an emergency alert? It's was hard to miss as it should have blared out of every TV broadcast, radio and cellphone in the United States with a warning tone. The alert was part of the ...

In November 2021, FOX Television Stations, and perhaps all of its affiliates, suddenly found themselves potentially liable for its use of an emergency alert system (EAS) code in what appeared to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau said Paramount Global is being fined $244,952 for violations of emergency alerting rules and the company has entered into a ...

Millions of cell phones, TVs and radios in the United States blared distinctive emergency alert tones for about a minute at 2:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday, followed by the message: "THIS IS A TEST of the ...

Hackers have been hijacking US radio transmission equipment to air bogus emergency tones and offensive material, according to a notice issued Wednesday by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC ...

MADISON – As southern Wisconsin braced for a tornado watch Friday afternoon, conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly and the Republican Party of Wisconsin issued its own emergency ...

This story originally appeared on TV Tech, our sister publication. The FCC has levied a fine of $504,000 against Fox for “willfully violating” commission rules on transmitting EAS Tones during regular ...