[EAS] FCC Addresses FEMA/Ad Council PSA Attention Signal Concerns

[Adrienne Abbott]

The problem is that we broadcasters have worked since the CONELRAD era to
train people to recognize the dual-tone signal, and now the "duck farts" as
the precursor of emergency information. Now the FCC is going to change their
rules to condone the use of EAS tones as part of an "educational" PSA
campaign using time donated by radio and television stations to promote cell
phone WEA's. This seems so wrong on so many levels... 

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair

Today the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau granted a limited
waiver of Section 11.45 of the Commission's rules to allow the broadcast or
transmission of a simulated Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) Attention Signal
in public service announcements (PSAs) developed by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) as part of a campaign designed to educate the
public about the WEA system.