[BC] Getting the right message to the right people

[Mike McCarthy]

I beg to differ with that blanket assessemnt.  Our stations don't cover
100 counties. Each station covers maybe a 1/2 dozen at most.  A couple
cover only one or two. We choose to super serve the counties which we have
the best signal and the greatest percentage of listeners. I see no reason
to blast an EAS message for a county we only partially service with a
maginal 60dBu/1mV/m contour or have few, if any listeners.

Doing what you suggest would drive away the listeners and increase the
false alarm perception.  We want our listeners to KNOW that when the EAS
blast occurs, it's for a specific area of interest. The SAME system allows
us to do that.

MM

 > Well, there you go, and this is a real indictment of radio today.
 >
 > With MANNED operations, the PEOPLE in the station can be the filter.
 > They can give out the important weather information without clogging
 > the air with repeated automated repeats of the same information for
 > multiple counties.
 >
 > The public is properly informed, yet the air is not filled with frog
 > farts.

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 > In the past, with manned stations, the announcers could filter the
 > massive amounts of location specific information, making it more
 > general, and PROPERLY informing the public.
 >
 > I just cannot see NOT informing the public about dangerous weather.
 > Sometimes, that may work out.  But, once rescue workers start dragging
 > out dead bodies out of the wreckage, things go downhill fast.
 >
 > "Why didn't Wxxx let us know what was coming?  I was listening to them
 > and we had our house flattened.  My family was killed because we
 > didn't go into our tornado shelter."
 >
 > --chip