A settlement has been reached between the FCC and Tegna after the commission threw a flag over an advertisement for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars from TV station WTLV that used Emergency Alert System ...

Over the years, the FCC has warned broadcasters not to air the real EAS tones for any reason other than airing a real alert or a test to avoid panicking the public. The EAS tones contain digital ...

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a simple parable that teaches children the fatal risk of raising a false alarm. To do so is to risk one’s life when raising the alarm about a real emergency that may go duly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.… That's according to the latest warning issued by the Federal Communications ...

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 ...

MULTIPLE CITIES: NBC may have violated federal rules with story about today’s test of the Emergency Alert System. The network ran the piece along with the audio tones that trigger the system on the ...

Viacom and ESPN must pay $1.4 million to the government as punishment for airing a movie commercial that misused Emergency Alert System (EAS) warning tones. The commercial for the 2013 film Olympus ...

The tone used to indicate an EAS emergency alert, or a test of the EAS system, is to be used for that purpose, and not for any other. ANY other. Not even for a bona fide and well-intentioned news ...

Today (November 9) will be the first ever Nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, and last minute questions and issues continue to come in. One caution relayed to us from a very experienced ...