[EAS] EAS Update at the NAB

[Mike McCarthy]

And while you're at it, let them know how frustrated we are for needing to
repeatedly venture high and low, from mountain top sites to tropical
islands to repeatedly update our boxes when one or the other comes out
with something critical.

Tell the folks at FEMA and the FCC three things:

1) MAKE UP THEIR MINDS ON EVERYTHING. Deliver a s unified, single, 
comprehensive, and complete set of rules and regulations designed to
permit some level of stability beyond 12 months.

2) Tell both the FCC and FEMA to unify their reports and orders so as to
eliminate so many necessary differing and closely spaced iterative OS
updates to the equipment disbursed at those far and wide locations.

3) It costs a station on average $100 or per box to update including
labor, travel, and resources consumed. With 20,000 EAS boxes, that amounts
to $2 Million or more in collective lost productivity each and every
update forced upon the industry by government agencies not knowing what
each other is doing.

EAS needs to be handled by ONE agency.  Not two.

MM

>
> For those of you here in Las Vegas, I would encourage you to stop by the
> FEMA booth (C746) at the LVCC.
>
> Richard Rudman
> The BWWG