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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closing of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting could affect how rural areas access emergency transmission and public TV ...

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 ...

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 ...

When disaster strikes in Alaska, whether it’s a typhoon, an earthquake, or the sea ice takes out the fiber-optic communications cable, one thread keeps us connected: public broadcasting. From breaking ...

PBS CEO Paula Kerger’s phone connection was almost lost during a storm Friday as she warned how killing federal funds for public broadcasting would impact Alaska. It was an apt metaphor as the tenuous ...