[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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