[BC] Yes, EAS works!

[Mike McCarthy]

Media Touch has a very difficult time doing this.....  Their system is 
not capable of issuing closures within an audio element. Only an 
external stimulus can direct the system to issue a machine command.  And 
created automated polite relay of incoming messages is just short of 
impossible.  This is especially difficult if you're a satellite station 
and you use incoming tone sensors.

It's but one reason we chose to change systems.  Our new system can do 
this all very nicely. Not only can we automate the RWT, we can make any 
desired relay message polite and also associate back-end fill material 
to give us some additional buffer to work with.  And/or create a sales 
opportunity for an adjacent severe weather commercial after the alert 
while not officially claiming a sponsorship message.  We can do that 
elsewhere....

While we haven't yet done so, EAS automation is the next major project 
following the EAS-II rollout and divestiture of one station from the 
cluster.

MM

On 6/16/2012 9:42 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
> 1) An audio cut containing "The following is a test of the emergency alert system";
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> 2) A command to trigger an RWT on the EAS encoder;
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> 3) A second audio cut containing 15 seconds of silence during which the test will run.
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> The test then runs in the appointed break. If it fails, I notice it when I check the log at the beginning of the week. But it hasn't, yet.
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> Traffic and programming need not worry at all anout EAS, and management only needs to decide whether or not to relay severe thunderstorm warnings or Amber alerts.
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> Rob
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