[EAS] Best and Worst of New CAP EAS Rules

[Tom Spencer]

Re: the visual output component...

Would someone please explain how that helps radio???

My take upon reading the relevant section of the new rule is that radio stations would still be OK with converters long after the 2015 "drop-dead" date for converters, since radio doesn't transmit video images!  That's TV!  (OK, "Picture Radio", but still..)

Could someone please clarify that - or better still, mention that to the FCC?  There is no point in mandating that radio - an audio-only medium - have text and/or video output capabilities. (Granted, some stations might want that capability for their website and/or stream, or perhaps their RDS/FMeXtra, but not all stations have those enhancements...)

Tom Taggart wrote:

>Let's cut through the crap. NWS is what we need EAS for 99%
>of the time. The other 1% is to keep the FCC goons off our
>back.

>And having "Enhanced Text" on a TV crawl doesn't do much
>good if there is a storm approaching & you are driving 70
>miles an hour on the freeway towards it.

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Tom Spencer