[BC] New Petition filed today on EAS issues with the FCC

[Mike McCarthy]

  In reading II-D---

The EAS monitoring assignments are tied to the Community of License and 
not the incidental location of the Main Studio OR the transmitter except 
as waivered. This isn't a problem for the system as much as it is for 
the individual stations and translators which try to skirt that 
rule/requirement.

If that were the case, all of my out of area or state stations would be 
monitoring Chicago area stations and not the stations for which the 
local area of the CoL is assigned.

MM

On 11/22/2010 9:25 AM, Richard Rudman wrote:
> Adrienne Abbott, Clay Freinwald, Barry Mishkind and I today filed a Petition with the FCC to get a number of CAP-EAS issues on the record that have not yet been addressed. We filed as a group calling ourselves the Independent EAS Stakeholders.
>
> The Petition says in part that CAP-EAS "has not yet been fully fleshed out, certified, tested and validated on a large scale by the agency that has the overall responsibility for it, the Federal Communications Commission."
>
> The Petition can be viewed and downloaded on the FCC's EFCS website using the preceding number for the EAS item, 04-296.
>
> Richard Rudman