By Keenan P. Adamchak , Daniel Kirkpatrick and Davina Sashkin

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted a Report and
Order (Order) approving several changes to its rules governing the
Emergency Alert System (EAS). Through the new rules, the FCC seeks to
make EAS alert messages disseminated to the public by broadcasters and
cable operators more informative and easier to understand. In
particular, the new EAS requirements seek to ensure that people who
are deaf or hard of hearing will have access to televised alerts in a
viewable format similar to the audio versions of the same alert
messages, and those who are blind or visually impaired will have
access - via their radios - to more detailed aural national
alerts. This article summarizes the FCC's changes to the EAS rules
impacting broadcasters.

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