[EAS] Anothe NPRM: Needless & Pointless Rule Making

[Gary Timm]

Just a reminder everyone - this NPRM was not FCC's idea.  An Act of Congress (the CVAA) directed FCC to adopt a rule by April 9, 2013 that allows sight-impaired persons to hear an aural representation of any non-EAS emergency information presented visually.  So any displeasure should be directed toward your Member of Congress, not FCC.
 
So FCC must find a way to do this. If we feel that putting that aural information on the secondary audio stream is not the way to go, then we must suggest an alternative.  Otherwise, I presume FCC will adopt the secondary audio channel as the method.  FCC must adopt some law to do this - Congress has given FCC no choice in that - our influence is to what method that rule will require.
 
Alternate ideas out there?
 
Gary Timm
WI SECC

--- On Wed, 11/28/12, Mike Snyder <msnyder at knme.org> wrote:

>From: Mike Snyder <msnyder at knme.org>

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>So here we go again with another unfunded mandate that's basically a
>solution looking for a problem.  And like previous EAS "fixes" such as CAP
>and IPAWS, not to mention DTV itself, the onus is on broadcasters to send it
>out, but NOT on manufacturers to make it easy for consumers to receive the
>message in whatever format they need to.