[EAS] : Fallout Over False Alert Continues

[Clay Freinwald]

Tim  wrote - 

The way the FCC interprets things these days, if you don't catch the false
EAN after the first 'brrrrrp', it is 'willful and repeated'. Especially if
they can exact a large sum of money from an 'evil, overprofitable
broadcaster', and make an example out of them, by narrowly interpreting the
rules?

Don't see how the FCC can require this - Remember that EAS came along
because broadcasters wanted to operate un-attended and EBS had not
provisions for that.    Today's EAS equipment, and the rules that govern it,
are supposed to permit totally automatic, un-attended, operation..   That
genie is out of the bottle and is not going back.

It is because of this and I feel (so far) that the pressure to resolve
issues like this are going to be on other than licensee's.

Sure would like to be a fly on the wall at the FCC right now  :-)

Clay Freinwald