[EAS] New EAS NPRM now posted on the EAS Forum Website

[Adrienne Abbott]

Kelly--
You are correct in that there will always be bad or apathetic players on the field. There are stations in my state with managers and owners who don't care. Some have even been cited and fined by the FCC. That's their problem because they were offered assistance and didn't want it. 

Neither Clay, Richard nor myself nor anyone else in the EAS world has the secret formula for fixing that attitude. However we don't do what we do for EAS and public warning for those people; we do it because first, this is who we are and how we are made, and second, because there are people out there who do care and who look to us for leadership. We can't spend a lot of time on those who don't care because there are so many who do care. 

Adrienne

> On Jun 30, 2014, at 8:17 AM, "Kelly D. Alford" <kalford at alhurra.com> wrote:
> 
> Clay,
> 
> In spite of those like yourself, who clearly really do care by spending countless hours of your own personal time in an attempt to evangelize the and clean-up inherent technology and workflow issues with CAP and EAS, even you have to admit that some participating stations and governmental organizations located in Washington State still suffer from apathy, lack of training or interest and yes I'll say it, even incompetence.   The inherent sketchy technology and aforementioned people-related-workflow issues, continue to soil the overall reputation of EAS for anything other than what the U.S. Govt. mandates (which you articulated well).  The question you posed was to paraphrase; 'why aren't more stations or organizations more active in using CAP and EAS from a programming perspective?'  I forwarded my opinions related to the question; it's too complicated and it requires reliance on some who may be not as invested in the plan, jeopardizing the overall quality of service.
> 
> Looking up the food chain, station owners nor programmers probably differentiate the roles between CAP and EAS, let alone whatever individual state involvement, when it comes to nationwide bad publicity from blunders like the zombie apocalypse or national testing follies.  They just know, and unfortunately so do their viewers and listeners, a system that we're required to have operational under a federal mandate is, for whatever reason, often ineffective and unreliable.