The NAB continues to push a software-based solution for Emergency Alert System equipment, allowing broadcasters to replace physical encoder/decoder hardware with digital options. The suggestions build ...

The author is general manager of Running Wolf Radio in Alva, Okla. I just read the Radio World article on the NAB’s request to fast-track the software EAS model. I am very much in favor of this and ...

Sage Alerting Systems supports the NAB petition that asks the FCC to move quickly to allow voluntary use of software-based EAS products. Sage says it would bring such products to market if the FCC ...

As the year comes to a close, the National Association of Broadcasters is still hard at work to promote its proposal to transition the Emergency Alert System from hardware-based encoder/decoder ...

A Senate committee chairman suggested last week that the country should return to broadcasting Cold War-era radio emergency alerts as part of a new national alert system. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), ...

Emergency Alert System hardware vendor Digital Alert Systems has issued a strong rebuttal to the NAB, defending its opposition to a proposed FCC rulemaking that would allow software-based EAS ...

There are a few steps stations must undertake to prepare for the next national EAS test, now slated for September 28. In order to report whether your station received and was able to pass on the alert ...