GAO is reviewing “progress made in modernizing” the U.S. emergency...
GAO is reviewing “progress made in modernizing” the U.S. emergency alert system and last year’s nationwide EAS test, the FCC said (http://xrl.us/bnmjjz). The office is reviewing “efforts underway to address any weaknesses in the EAS identified by the test,” said…
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a Public Safety Bureau public notice dated Friday. “GAO has requested test result information” from the commission, and the FCC is sharing with the office information from EAS participants about the test, the notice said. It said radio and TV stations, pay-TV operators and others that participate in EAS were ordered in November to give test information to the commission, which an FCC order “specifically provided that submitted information would be presumed confidential and not released to the public."