The FCC announced plans this week to launch an emergency alert system for mobile phones. The system is called Personalized Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), which as the name implies, sends the ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will no longer administer a grant program that has so far provided millions of dollars to local television and radio stations to upgrade the equipment they use ...

Public radio station executive Judy Diaz fears that an arid landscape for local news on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is about to become even more parched. In the next month, the U.S. Senate will decide ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – As Tropical Storm Erin churns across the Atlantic, there is now another source for emergency information around the clock – on the radio and on the internet. But it’s not just weather ...