This article was first published in the newsletter of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and is republished here with permission.
As 2022 comes to a close, stations are busily strategizing for the new year. Part of that strategy must now include proposed rule changes successfully approved by the FCC pushing forward changes to the Emergency Alert System (EAS), as well as a significant Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) the FCC issued in October of this year.
The FCC’s motivation to propose the changes seems to stem from failures across the public media system during the last national EAS test, as well as a small number of hacks that resulted in false alerts from radio and TV broadcasters over the last few years. The National Federation of Community Broadcasters has been following these proposals closely and evaluating how the changes could or would affect…
