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ETRS deadlines for 2026

Every EAS Participant files in the FCC's EAS Test Reporting System: Form One each year, then Forms Two and Three after a nationwide EAS test. Here is every date, with free email reminders before each one.

Next: ETRS Form One due, in 10 days (October 30).

  1. Oct 30, 2026Friday

    ETRS Form One due

    Every EAS Participant's yearly identifying information: station, location, EAS designation, monitoring sources and EAS equipment. Get your Form One worksheet.

    in 10 days
  2. Nov 17, 2026Tuesday

    Nationwide EAS test

    2:20 p.m. Eastern, sent through FEMA IPAWS in English and Spanish (backup date December 3). Every EAS Participant takes part.

    in 28 days
  3. Nov 19, 2026Thursday

    ETRS Form Two due

    "Day of test" results, by 2:20 p.m. Eastern, 48 hours after the test: did you receive the alert, and did you pass it on?

    in 30 days
  4. Jan 4, 2027Monday

    ETRS Form Three due

    Detailed results, 45 days after the test (extended past the holiday): where and when you got the alert, in which format, and any problems.

    in 76 days

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Email me before each deadline

A short, free email a few days before each ETRS date, and nothing else. Every email has a link to stop them.

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Nexus Broadcast files ETRS Forms One, Two and Three for your station, on time, every time.

ETRS filing serviceFree Form One worksheet

Who has to file

  • Every EAS Participant: AM, FM and LPFM radio stations, full-power, Class A and low power TV stations, cable systems, wireless cable, satellite radio and TV, and wireline video systems.
  • Form One is due every year, and again whenever your State EAS Plan changes your monitoring assignments (47 CFR 11.61(a)(3)(iv)).
  • Not required (47 CFR 11.11(b)): TV translators, FM translators and boosters that rebroadcast their primary station in full, and satellites or repeaters that rebroadcast all of a hub station's programming (the hub still files).
  • LPFM stations do file: they need an EAS decoder (not an encoder) and an ETRS filing like everyone else.
  • You sign in to ETRS with your FCC user name (the same one you use for CORES and your FRN).

Dates as the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau gave them for 2026. Not a product of the FCC.