[BC] EAS alert tones in movie preview ad

[Warren Shulz]

Amen to that.  They word "attention" signal was for the down stream
station and not the public.  Majority of stations send the alert data to
no one.
Only in the LP defined network (I hate to call it daisy chain) does the
data burst have any meaning down stream as many stations in a
operational area monitor for the activation relay.

These announcements are news bulletins and the programmers hate to tie
up air time send 'alert tones (data burst)' when you just need to send
the news bulletin.

I agree if there had been a way to avoid in channel data handoff these
data burst would not had been in the audio channel.

When we did a local news report about mayor having access to EAS and
using EAS data burst as a part of the new story and suspected it would
be aired the author was aware to use an out of area FIPS and time
expired RWT data header should it get to air nothing should occur.

Warren Shulz
WLS CGO

-----Original Message-----

 From: Craig Bowman

DUH, that was the point of the darn duck farts to begin with!  They are 
not an attention signal for the listener they are data for passing along

information to stations down the line, period.  If the data could have 
been sent silently they would have.  One of the goals of EAS was to do 
away with the lengthy EBS tests.  So, when someone runs a test which is 
completely unannounced who does it alert?  C'mon I know things are slow 
but jeezzzzzzeeeeeee.

Craig Bowman
Bowman Engineering
Local HDTV, Inc.
989-277-8835

On 11/9/2010 12:07 PM, ed.czarnecki at comcast.net wrote:
> I think Barry posted the winning answer.  Devalue or desensitize,
people will learn pretty quickly to tune out when the tone are
played....
>
> Ed Czarnecki
> Monroe Electronics/ Digital Alert Syatema
> Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless
>
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Barry Mishkind<barry at oldradio.com>