Tag Archives: Common Alerting Protocol

Update: Remaining EAS Rules Get OMB Approval, Take Effect

If you've been worrying about whether the "information collection" aspects of the revised EAS rules would be in effect soon enough to give everybody time to meet the upcoming deadline for CAP compliance, you can breathe easy.… Continue Reading

EAS Update: On Second Thought, Text-to-Speech Conversion IS Permitted, Effective May 7, 2012

By FHH Law on May 6, 2012 Posted in Cable, Deadlines, Media

The FCC mandated a couple of months ago that text-to-speech conversion of EAS messages by EAS participants would not be permitted. That came as disappointing news to, among others, FEMA. But FEMA should be happy now.… Continue Reading

Update: FCC Seeks Accelerated OMB Review of Revised EAS Rules

By FHH Law on April 2, 2012 Posted in Cable, Deadlines, Media

The FCC has asked OMB to review the latest version of the Emergency Alert System rules on an emergency basis.… Continue Reading

Update: Effective Date for New EAS Rules – April 23, 2012

By FHH Law on March 22, 2012 Posted in Cable, Deadlines, Media

The effective date for most, but not necessarily all, of the new EAS rules has been established.… Continue Reading

EAS 5th R&O: Who’s Who/What’s What

By FHH Law on February 29, 2012 Posted in Cable, Deadlines, Internet, Media

If you're an EAS participant and you're inclined to read the FCC's Fifth Report and Order (and, BTW, you should), here's a handy glossary of the 40+ abbreviations and acronyms the FCC has sprinkled throughout the document.… Continue Reading

FCC Addresses CAP-to-SAME Conversion, Other EAS Issues

By FHH Law on February 29, 2012 Posted in Cable, Deadlines, Media

Last month the Commission took another major step in its effort to drag the Emergency Alert System (EAS) into the digital era. With the June 30, 2012 deadline for CAP-compliance fast approaching, the Commission's action came none too soon.… Continue Reading

CAP Compliance Postponed Until June 30, 2012

By FHH Law on September 16, 2011 Posted in Cable, Cellular, Deadlines, Media, Wireless

The deadline for complying with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) requirements has been extended.… Continue Reading

EAS Update: Another Virtual Roundtable Coming Soon

By FHH Law on September 9, 2011 Posted in Media

Mark your calendar: another "virtual roundtable" designed to assist the government and industry in prepping for the upcoming nationwide EAS test is set for September 30.… Continue Reading

EAS: FCC Asks Questions, Suggests Extension Of CAP Compliance May Be In Store, Sets Date For National Test

By FHH Law on June 19, 2011 Posted in Cable, Cellular, Deadlines, Media, Wireless

On the EAS front: the Commission has issued another notice of proposed rulemaking aimed at advancing the transition to a CAP-based emergency alert system. Newly-announced comment deadlines are coming up fast. Good news: the notice suggests that the FCC is open to possible extension of the CAP implementation deadline, currently set for September 30.… Continue Reading

FCC Doffs CAP Requirement . . . For Six Months, At Least

By FHH Law on November 23, 2010 Posted in Cable, Cellular, Deadlines, Media, Satellite, Wireless

With Thanksgiving less than 36 hours away, the Commission has given us all something to be thankful for -- by extending, until September 30, 2011, the deadline for all EAS participants to implement the Common Alerting Protocol reception requirement.… Continue Reading

EAS Update: CAP Conversion Countdown Commenced

By FHH Law on October 7, 2010 Posted in Cable, Cellular, Deadlines, Media, Satellite, Wireless

With FEMA's adoption of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standards, all EAS participants now have 180 days to prepare themselves to accept CAP-based EAS alerts. But hold on a minute -- the FCC still hasn't amended its own rules to provide for CAP-based emergency messaging.… Continue Reading

Planning Starts For EAS – The Next Generation

By FHH Law on April 17, 2010 Posted in Cable, Cellular, Deadlines, Media, Wireless

In anticipation of an impending overhaul of the Emergency Alert System to accommodate the Common Alerting Protocol standard, the Commission has invited comments on possible changes to any or all of Part 11 of the Rules.… Continue Reading

FCC Introduces New EAS Rules

By FHH Law on June 2, 2007 Posted in Media

By Harry Cole
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The Commission has adopted new rules designed to modernize the Emergency Alert System (EAS). While the full text of the FCC's decision has yet to be released, in a public notice (http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-273458A1.pdf) the Commission makes clear that all EAS participants will be required to accept messages using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). As described by the Commission back in 2004, when it first proposed upgrading the EAS, the CAP is a "standardized, non-proprietary, data interchange format that simultaneously disseminates consistent all-hazard emergency alerts or public warning messages over different kinds of communications networks and systems." The idea is to have a standardized emergency alert so that the agency or individual issuing an alert need issue only a single alert which can then be received and processed by the widest variety of media (including, but not limited to, EAS participants) for re-transmission to their respective audiences.