[EAS] Real EAN Words on TV Slide

[Alex Hartman]

Don,
Can't you automate to take a CBS or some other news service off the bird should an EAN activate? Tie the EAN to an input on automation to trigger a slate and hard cutover to some news source? I would guess that the local stations here in MPLS would be doing something similar, and have local reaction afterwards.
Just an idea, don't want to tell your viewers that your not prepared and tune away. We did that for 9/11 coverage, i grabbed a tuner and just rebroadcast a local station coverage.
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Alex Hartman
On Sep 22, 2011 9:12 AM, "Don Heppelmann" <DHeppelmann at tpt.org> wrote:
> Richard,
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> Thanks for your comment.
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> Agree about the "are u sure", but that may not work for automation systems. Wonder if there is a way to compare to see if more than one EAS source input to confirm it's real. The days of looking at a red envelope are over, and PEP stations are it, so I suppose that's the fail safe, correct?
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> We are a public television station, and do not have news department. Although the president will speak, management here is wondering if it might be best for viewers to switch channels to a commercial news station radio or TV. That's the current thinking on this end.
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> " CAP might make this easier if the Feds plant a link to an EAN "Slide" or maybe video text they create in a CAP EAN when we get to that point." Interesting idea!
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> Don
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