[EAS] Joplin

[Rey, David (Xrey)]

no amount of legislation can replace just "doing the right thing" in serving your public.  
being a pro-active programmer & broadcaster when lives may be at stake can make your station a hero and makes for better press than ignoring an obviously dangerous situation and potentially being held accountable by the press, your audience, or the courts if lives & property are lost by "the crime of omission".

"xrey(r)" [M. David Rey] |Asst. Chief Engineer-KDIS Los Angeles
818-973-4178 (p) | 818-973-4077 (f) | 213-359-2162 (c) | david.rey at disney.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Marlin Jackson [mailto:marlinj at kxly.com] 

KXLY in Spokane is an LP-1. In agreeing to be an LP-1 we agreed to forward all warnings. 74 stations monitor the LP-1 for information. I would say if a station is not being monitored by any other station it would be up to the station to either forward a warning or do their own coverage. Any of our 6 other stations forward all warnings when un attended as I believe they should.
 
A note: We are not programmed to forward any Statement or Watch. As yet we have never received either of those via EAS.
 

 
Marlin Jackson, CSTE
Assistant Chief Engineer
RF Systems
KXLY Broadcast Group
500 W Boone
Spokane, WA 99201
 
marlinj at kxly.com
509-329-4908
>>> Alan Kline <broadcast at snugglebunny.us> 5/24/2011 10:15 AM >>>
I think the answer is "no". And I'm not sure it's a good idea to mandate
that certain codes be passed by all stations in a state. If it were
mandatory for stations that are unattended, that's one thing. But for
those of us with live weather people, I don't think it's a good idea. I
can see a scenario where our weather guy is saying, "If you're in
downtown Podunk City, take cover now" being covered by the duck farts
and a synthesized NWS voice giving a more vague TOR for "southwestern
Podunk County". Far better to let us give the more specific information.
The 30-60 seconds that the EAS box preempts our audio can mean life or
death.

I know I'm saying "mandatory for thee, not for me", but IMHO it's a fair
price to pay, for stations that run unattended at times.

ak

On 5/24/2011 11:14 AM, Dave Kline wrote:
> Yeah! I get that.
> But what if a state plan said... "thou shalt relay TOR's."
> In other words, can a state plan mandate alerts that are not mandated
> by the FCC?

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