I requested that feature a few days ago; they told me it already existed and showed me that column; I turned it on and experienced the same thing - no actual news alerts. I've reported it to the feed guy - suspect it's just not checking for all the news feeds I asked them to stick in for the US users (BW,MW,PRN). I'll update you once they've told me it's fixed....
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