WASHINGTON—The NAB is requesting the Federal Communications Commission make changes to Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules that would allow but not require EAS participants to use software-based EAS ...

The FCC’s desire to make alerts issued over EAS available in more languages is raising some technical concerns about the capabilities of the current technical architecture in EAS devices. At its ...

The National Association of Broadcasters believes the FCC should allow software-based EAS and do it quickly. This spring the commission took comments from broadcasters and other alerting stakeholders.