[EAS] This just in: NCTA has asked FEMA to "postpone" the national test

[Adrienne Abbott]

I don't understand why a group led by a former FCC commissioner who should
know better didn't speak up about these issues when the FCC issued their
Notice of Proposed Rule Making on National Testing. We broadcasters are
given a limited amount of time during NPRM's to comment or bring up
potential problems and outside those periods, we're told we're just out of
luck. And we have also been told "Too bad--So sad" when it comes to the cost
of adding new and improved EAS equipment but let now it appears that all the
Cable TV industry has to do is complain that something is too expensive or
too difficult and all the government regulators can't get in line fast
enough to be the first to halt the problem, just as they caved on the CAP
requirements for the new Part 11 rules. Definitely a case of favoritism...
Adrienne

"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Alan Kline
national test

Too d*** bad...they've had as much time to prepare as the rest of us.

This just goes to show how unwilling the cable industry, at least as 
represented by their trade group, is to actually be a useful part of EAS.

ak

On 11/1/2011 2:13 PM, Richard Rudman wrote:
> I just received a copy of a letter from the National Cable Television
Association (NCTA) to Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator.
>
> The letter asks FEMA to postpone the November 9 test due to a large number
of cable systems inability to display a visual indication that the event
will be a test.
>
> The letter states that while some work-arounds for this have them
developed, deploying and testing them in the field at a large number of
cable systems is not practical in time for the November 9 test.
>
> The letter mentions the potential for serious consequences, the letter
states, principally that deaf and hard-of-hearing people could mistakenly
believe that the test is a national emergency.
>
> The letter goes on to say regarding steps to avert test problems in the
cable environment.

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