The FCC is upgrading the Wireless Emergency Alert system to make sure critical warnings reach everyone quickly and reliably. New updates include support for 13 languages, including ASL, better ...

The fine and decree follow an FCC investigation into allegations that various operations owned by Paramount improperly transmitted Emergency Alert System (EAS) codes, the EAS attention signal or ...

Brendan Carr is a leading voice for broadcast deregulation, which could bring both opportunities and challenges to the ...

Thirteen years after its introduction, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system—touted by the FCC as an “essential part of America’s emergency preparedness”—still suffers from performance anxiety.

It can also translate them into multiple languages (something the Federal Communications Commission has been eyeing for Emergency Alert System messaging). “This critical information from state and ...

Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow ...

The characteristic tones of the Emergency Alert System are prohibited from general broadcasting by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). They may not be played outside of real alerts ...

The mistakes created panic across the region, but the county said they had quickly addressed it. The county's director of ...

County Supervisor Janice Hahn is proposing that the county’s emergency alert system be disabled until a solution to the technical error, which causes millions to receive evacuation ...

Los Angeles County has had two failures of its emergency ... the FCC, the state and our region's telecommunications providers, and we've made the preliminary determination that the echo alerts ...