The National Association of Broadcasters believes the FCC should allow software-based EAS and do it quickly. This spring the commission took comments from broadcasters and other alerting stakeholders.

As chairman of Alabama’s State Emergency Communications Committee, I thought I might add a comment or two in the debate about whether to allow software-based EAS in the United States. The Emergency ...

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 cable industry has told the Federal Communications Commission it supports the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal to allow broadcasters to use software-based Emergency Alert Systems.

If the FCC is going to allow radio broadcasters to adopt software-based EAS infrastructure, it should weigh the challenges of virtualization and consider how potential solutions might work together to ...

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 ...

In spite of electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags—those plastic tags that can be found on nearly every type of item in department and specialty stores—shoplifters and employees stole $30.7 ...