U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and John Thune (R-S.D.) reintroduced the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement (READI) Act today (October 24, 2019). The READI Act would: [...] Explore establishing a system to offer emergency alerts to audio and video online streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify; [...] The READI Act is support by NCTA – The Internet and Television Association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the Internet Association, CTIA – The Wireless Association, and the Wireless Infrastructure Association. Due to its bi-partisan co-sponsors and industry support, this bill is likely to pass. As I've stated before, I think network emergency alerts should be built into the underlying smart assistant layer (i.e. apple siri, amazon echo/fire, roku, google/nest home, etc.) instead of each content provider or internet provider.