[EAS] FCC Seeks Comment on Multilingual EAS

[Barry Mishkind]

Kevin wrote:
Back to the real thread. Are there any long range plans to go all-digital with IPAWS/CAP/EAS? Much like the DTV transition has changed TV, why not do an all D-EAS transition? Dream with me... with D-EAS adding another PID (or two, or three, or 65,535) to a stream is not that big of a deal. A D-EAS decoder could be user-selectable to whatever language the user wants

At 03:01 PM 3/12/2014, Tim Stoffel wrote:
>This was already tried with PBS. It was abandoned a couple years after it started.

        As engineers, we can devise many automated solutions.
        The *real* solution is for stations catering to other
        languages have someone on call to do more than
        just the alert ... but to inform.

        Like I said earlier, this is relatively easy today,
        given the wide variety of IP and other access.

        OK ... I didn't want to say this earlier - this
        whole thing is political ... as political as that
        alleged newsroom survey two weeks ago.

        This should never get into the Rules ... it will
        create havoc.