[EAS] FEMA Announces Addition of Premiere Networks as PEP Station

[Richard_Rudman]

Don/All:

First, I have forwarded Don's question to Premier engineering in Sherman Oaks, CA.

That said, reception of Premier feeds requires a special receiver. Such receivers would of course be in place at any station that is a syndication client of Premier network programming products. Non-Premier client stations will not have this receiver.

For markets and stations that either want to reinforce their PEP reception capability, or still have no way to receive PEP, getting a Premier network client station to volunteer to become part of your area's EAS monitoring plan can accomplish the goal.

This is what was suggested and done in a number of markets when NPR was the only network entity authorized.

Regards,

Richard Rudman
BWWG Core Member

On May 2, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Don Heppelmann wrote:

> Wonder if Premiere would let non-member stations receive and decode their stream(s) and feed an EAS decoder directly? Does anyone know if their streams are in the clear or not?
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