[EAS] {Spam?} Re: Authority to form State Emerg. Comm. Committees

[Richard Rudman]

Hi, Rych  and everyone-

Many of us share Rych's frustrations with the current situation trying to get answers on monitoring assignments. These can and should be decided at the state or local level. My personal rule-of-thumb has been to find out who is willing to act as an LP and find out if the stations who cannot meet the FCC's monitoring requirement can hear the potential new LP assignment, and have never encountered a situation where someone inside the Beltway opposed it. If anyone has heard of a situation where someone in DC (or elsewhere) objected to a locally decided monitoring change, I'd like to know about it. The real challenge is finding someone who will take on the LP responsibility and then dealing with the realities of propagation to make sure the monitoring assignment change can work.

I am also very much in favor of local relay networks (LRN's) that can be used to ease us away from the LP distribution model. Eliminating the LP "middle man" means that each station that can directly monitor its local warning centers and will get information faster will a lessened chance of an LP station not relaying for some reason. 

Looking forward, all we can hope for is that we can all get behind a concerted effort to have the FCC put in place the elements that has always been missing from Part 11.

If your state does not have a CAP source now, according to the existing Report and Order, you will receive information on the IP address for the federal CAP aggregator. I have not seen this information yet. If anyone has, please chime in.

All State plans will have to be adjusted for CAP depending on a number of factors including your governor's desire to implement Governor Mandatory and Governor-designee mandatory. Again, a locally driven effort -- not something that can or should be done from inside the Beltway.

As far as the FCC acting on a report to force on-air TV out of business, maybe that's a topic for another remailer? 

Richard Rudman


On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:28 PM, rych withers rych@ rych.org NOT wrote:

> Wel, the FCC hired a distinguished scholar in residence who thinks it's 
> important to speed the demise of broadcasting by adding to paperwork, 
> reducing profit, so they can sell it off.
> http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2009/12/11/38079/genachowski-hires-broadcast-tv-hitman
> 
> And  I spent months calling FCC people, FEMA people, state chairs, 
> etc.,  trying to find out what we should do when one of our LP1 
> listening assignments went away (TV) and whether we could, or should 
> monitor the (DT) replacement, and everyone passed the buck, and no one 
> wanted to answer the question.
> 
> All I want to know is what CAP do I monitor, and what do I need to do to 
> participate??  Or should I continue with a 20 year old state plan???
> 
> Rych
> KFCF
> 
> 
> On 3/3/2011 10:26 AM, Richard Rudman wrote:
>> Barry makes the very valid point in a different way than I did that those inside the Beltway apparently have little concern for how the world really works in the real world of local broadcasting.
>> 
>> Put another way, much of what the FCC has been doing lately may be in violation of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and is clearly in violation of the Overworked Local Broadcaster Act. The latter act is one of my own invention, but I think you all get the point.
>> 
>> Richard Rudman
>> 
>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>> 
>>> At 10:42 AM 3/3/2011, Richard Rudman wrote:
>>>> My take: It may be more of a reverse turf battle. Neither FEMA or the FCC seem willing to deal head-on with a situation that is at its heart a local and state issue.
>>>        On certain levels that makes sense, but on other
>>>        levels, we are back to issuing Rules, finable Rules,
>>>        without considering how stations really operate,
>>>        and being on Mt. Olympus, never clarifying anything.
>>> 
>>>        I will note one point I made in my editorial this week:
>>> 
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