[BC] Weather format

[John Davis]

What part of "use your best judgement" and "I'm not going to get fired for
dumping out of (insert long song title here)" did you choose to ignore?
Because I will take the public's side every time.

The point is, if you're able to run attended, you need to do more than just
pass the tones once, because if you weren't listening when the ducks farted,
you've heard nothing. If there's any lesson we can take from PPM, it's that
the audience punches in and out a lot, so you need to repeat important stuff
a lot.

I'm done.

-----Original Message-----
From: towers at mre.com
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:41 PM

We'll agree to disagree John. TOR's normally have durations of 30-45
minutes. So, you wouldn't be cutting into a song with a just issued warning
that has only 3 minutes left. Tell that to the surviving members of a family
who didn't know it was coming while American Pie ran out and the alert was
issued during the song.

MM

 > In practice, you need that 30 to 90 seconds from the time you get the
 > alert to get your copy ready and your head together... Then you're
 > repeating it several times over the warning period - something an
 > automated EAS box won't do.
 >
 > We're also told to use our best judgement. I'm not going to get fired
 > if I choose to dump out of American Pie to read a TOR that expires in
 > 3 minutes.
 >
 > --jjd