Users of Sage equipment: You now have another 90 days to meet that pending FCC deadline for updating your EAS firmware. Users of EAS products from other vendors: The Dec. 12 deadline still applies to ...

On November 28, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) granted a limited extension of the deadline to prioritize Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)-formatted emergency alerts for ...

The two major relevant EAS technology suppliers are recommending divergent approaches to allowing software-based EAS.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sage Alerting has issued a technical note regarding Emergency Alert System passwords. In response ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emergency Alert System (EAS) participants that are customers of a particular equipment vendor have been granted a 90-day extension of a new ...

Broadcasters are embracing the FCC’s push to bring EAS into the software era, but they don’t want modernization to become ...

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 ...

Sage Alerting Systems (SAS), in cooperation with Orban Labs and DNAV, will demonstrate virtualized Emergency Alert System (EAS) alerting at the Orban Labs booth across the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas.

The NAB and vendor Digital Alert Systems are going head-to-head over broadcasters’ push to launch a formal FCC rulemaking that would allow stations to adopt software-based Emergency Alert System ...