The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a simple parable that teaches children the fatal risk of raising a false alarm. To do so is to risk one’s life when raising the alarm about a real emergency that may go duly ...

WASHINGTON—Over the years, the FCC has warned broadcasters not to air the real EAS tones for any reason other than airing a real alert or a test to avoid panicking the public. The EAS tones contain ...

A settlement has been reached between the FCC and Tegna after the commission threw a flag over an advertisement for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars from TV station WTLV that used Emergency Alert System ...

Oct. 17 (UPI) --ESPN improperly used Emergency Alert System tones to draw attention to pending NBA broadcasts in 2023 and should be fined $146,976, the Federal Communications Commission announced ...

The tone used to indicate an EAS emergency alert, or a test of the EAS system, is to be used for that purpose, and not for any other. ANY other. Not even for a bona fide and well-intentioned news ...

Viacom and ESPN must pay $1.4 million to the government as punishment for airing a movie commercial that misused Emergency Alert System (EAS) warning tones. The commercial for the 2013 film Olympus ...

Come Thursday (9/20), unless delayed by a real emergency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the FCC are on track to conduct a combined nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and ...

WASHINGTON—A settlement has been reached between the FCC and Tegna after the Commission threw a flag over an advertisement for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars from WTLV that used Emergency Alert System ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 17 (UPI) --ESPN improperly used Emergency Alert System tones to draw attention to pending NBA broadcasts in 2023 and should ...