The AWARN Alliance is leading the way for using ATSC 3.0/Next Gen TV to reinvent how we warn people and provide them with on-going news and information in emergency situations.

In May 2021, the AWARN Alliance hosted a virtual Summit that, for the first time, brought together broadcasters and other media industry players with the nation’s largest alerting authorities to discuss advanced emergency alerting. 

America’s current alerting systems are inadequate. AWARN is based on ATSC 3.0, the Next Gen TV transmission standard. It will give local stations unique capabilities to deliver geo-targeted, multimedia alerts to a range of enabled consumer devices.