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		<title>Reworking EAS: 26 Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[September 2025] The publication of the FCC’s proposed NPRM opens the comment period for ways to improve the EAS. Of course, ideas range from turning it into a software app to killing it off completely. Yet, no matter where you start, there are issues, some having been shown to create problems over the years, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inside The FCC NPRM TO Modernize EAS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Czarnecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[August 2025] Everyone has to deal with the EAS requirements from the FCC. After almost 30 years, including 13 years since promising a Part 11 rewrite, the Commission appears ready to do something. Ed Czarnecki summarizes the FCC’s plans for the NPRM. The Federal Communications Commission has launched a rulemaking to modernize the nation&#8217;s alert [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FCC Seeks EAS Overhaul to Meet Modern Public Safety Needs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Czarnecki]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[[July 2025] The FCC has announced they will be voting on an NPRM for the Emergency Alert System in early August. The recent debate on Software EAS has now blossomed to a discussion of the many ways in which it can be improved and augmented. Ed Czarnecki has read the entire NPRM, and offers some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EAS: What If the Problem Is not Software But the Lack of MCP?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Helstein]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[July 2025] Getting emergency information to a community is an important function of broadcasters. But today we know there are many possible ways to disseminate the information, including streams, cell phones, etc. Can broadcasters leverage their EAS systems to serve the community more effectively. In his recent article Software EAS: Unanswered Questions and Unwise Haste, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Software EAS: Unanswered Questions and Unwise Haste</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Rudman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[July 2025] Just as we are seeing an increase in weather, fire, and other emergencies a discussion has grown over the very mechanism of EAS itself: should we convert to “Software EAS?” Are we ready to move past the EAS receivers that have been in every radio and TV station for almost three decades? Richard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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