Emergency Alert System participants must not broadcast EAS tones or...
Emergency Alert System participants must not broadcast EAS tones or attention signals except during Wednesday’s test of the national EAS system (CD Nov 7 p6), the FCC said Tuesday. That means any news coverage of the test should exclude the…
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EAS tones, codes and attention signals, it said in a public notice released by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. “Any rebroadcast of the EAS tones and attention signal not only would violate FCC rules, but would also pose a public danger because rebroadcast of the tones could trigger a false alert from EAS equipment that picks up such a rebroadcast."