FCC approved series of new Emergency Alert System (EAS) codes, in...
FCC approved series of new Emergency Alert System (EAS) codes, including Child Abduction Emergency code. New rules permit, but don’t require, use of new codes, although EAS equipment installed after Feb. 1, 2004, must be able to receive and…
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transmit new codes. Order also increases time period within which monthly EAS tests must be transmitted to 60 min. from 15 min., and authorizes cable systems with fewer than 5,000 subscribers to install EAS system with only decoder, rather than both decoder and encoder. Commission also exempted low-power FM stations from EAS requirement until one year after agency certified LPFM decoder and exempted from EAS equipment installation rules repeater stations that rebroadcast 100% of hub station’s programming.