Both the Handbook and the Reporting System can be accessed on the Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau's EAS Nationwide Test Landing Page:
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/emergency-alert-system-nationwide-test

For further information, please feel free to direct your stations to the Nationwide EAS Test link on www.nab.org where we have gathered information and additional guidance regarding the November 9th test, such as sample Public Service Announcements, tips for getting ready for the test, the EAS test visual slide, and FEMA’s EAS Toolkit.

Sen. Harry Reid’s debt reduction proposal would permit the FCC to conduct incentive auctions of TV spectrum and share the proceeds with broadcasters who give up spectrum, but doesn’t have safeguards that broadcasters want. NAB is lobbying against the plan, calling it “about as big a threat as there is in terms of the future of our business.”

Authorizes compensation to broadcasters for giving up spectrum allocated to interoperable broadband network.

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/8/2011 11:46:59 AM

With promises to continue to work on the bill before it gets to a floor vote, the Senate Commerce Committee voted 21 to 4 Wednesday to authorize incentive auctions that would compensate broadcasters for giving up spectrum for wireless broadband.

It would also compensate broadcasters who retain spectrum but are "repacked" to make larger, contiguous swaths of spectrum available for wireless, and would compensate cable operators for any adjustments they had to make to their retransmissions of the reconfigured broadcasters.

The bill, appropriately numbered S. 911, is primarily about creating an interoperable broadband network for first responders, which would be paid for out of the proceeds of the reaction of that reclaimed broadcast spectrum for wireless.

By Scott R Flick

The FCC today announced a freeze on the acceptance of any petitions for rulemaking seeking to change a station's assigned channel in the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments. While application freezes were once relatively rare at the FCC, they became quite common as a planning mechanism during the years when the FCC was creating a new Table of Allotments to initiate and complete the transition to digital television.

Given the FCC's announced intent to begin reclaiming broadcast television spectrum for wireless broadband as part of the National Broadband Plan, and to then repack the remaining television stations into a smaller chunk of spectrum, today's announcement was not a surprise. The Commission's brief announcement stated that the freeze is necessary to "permit the Commission to evaluate its reallocation and repacking proposals and their impact on the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments...."