This is for multiple reasons. Any such false alerts that end up on radio or TV could trigger the Emergency Alert System hardware in other broadcasters, which would cut over programming as in a ...

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 ...

but would allow for closer integration of EAS into radio and TV broadcast chains where EAS is made to work within the system, rather than trying to force the existing system to accommodate EAS.” Price ...

The National Association of Broadcasters is urging the FCC to act quickly to allow broadcasters and other Emergency Alert System participants to use software-based EAS technology. NAB first proposed a ...