[EAS] EAS & Arbitron encoding

[Mike McCarthy]

Actually, there is a technical reason.  Which enough of a daisy chain 
and all the stations encoding in that chain, the added and overlaid 
perceptual codings would likely become audible.  If you've never heard 
of a PPM encoder gone bad, it's like a 2-3Khz whistle about -20dB of 
nominal. Put enough of those together and the perceptual part will be 
gone anything audible will be rendered just short of listenable or 
intelligible.

All our stations have the EAS boxes ***after*** the PPM so they're 
switched out of the EAS path.  Now someone will say you're LP will then 
get credit.  Not so.  That question has been asked and answered hundreds 
of times.

Keep in mind you're in Washington State and the plan there is very much 
the exception to the norm.

MM

On 11/21/2011 5:04 PM, Lowell Kiesow wrote:
> I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, and in many plants there isn't much choice in the matter.  As CAP gradually supplants legacy EAS distribution, this will be even less of an issue than it is now.  It's been close to a year since we ran an RMT that wasn't received from CAP, instead of the daisy chain.
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