Americans have been warned to prepare for an official emergency alert test that will blast on televisions and radios ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 17, both FEMA and the FCC are testing the Emergency Alert System. The EAS will be tested nationwide from ...

In letter to FCC, NextGen TV device maker says stations have time and the ability to remove the impediment to EAS reception.

The NAB said the upcoming emergency test is meant to gauge how encrypted TV stations deliver those alerts to viewers.— This ...

SiliconDust is urging the "hold separate" unit of Nexstar Media Group formerly known as Gannett to disable Digital Rights ...

Just hours after SiliconDust urged multiple broadcast television station owners to disable Digital Rights Management encryption one week before a November 17 Emergency Alert System test, the NAB has ...

The first coast-to-coast EAS test in three years is approaching, and FEMA wants stations walking in prepared. A pair of live webinars from FEMA’s IPAWS Division, scheduled for this week and the next, ...

On November 17, 2026, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct a nationwide test of ...

The timing of the upcoming nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System suggests that the FCC may use it to assess how well the U.S. broadcast community is complying with new cybersecurity rules. As ...

Google's Gemini artificial intelligence accessed the protected systems of three real companies while undergoing a cybersecurity test, including one instance in which the model repeatedly guessed ...

Three years have now passed since the last coast-to-coast test of the Emergency Alert System. FEMA and the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau are gearing up to run it again, with every ...