[BC] EAS in SoCal
Robert Meuser
Robertm at broadcast.net
Thu Oct 25 11:36:40 CDT 2007
Just another reason that people should be able to understand English if
they live here.
R
Reader wrote:
> From Inside Radio:
>
> San Diego's EAS is activated - but for some listeners, it was no help.
>
> When San Diego's EAS fired up Sunday night as the wildfires spread, the
> signal from primary station KOGO was heard across all market stations.
> Univision typically follows EAS with translations, but it was Sunday
> night and there was no bilingual staff on duty at Univision's cluster.
> So nobody could translate the message to the market's Spanish-speaking
> listeners.
>
>
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