[EAS] Sorry, the FCC notice and EAS handbook are attached to this email. ##

[Dave Turnmire]

I feel your pain... albeit on a smaller scale.  I have spent a lot of 
time this month answering queries from EAS Participants trying to figure 
out ETRS.  And yes, broadcasters that only this month decided they 
should figure out what their monitoring assignments are!  Some are those 
small stations that sprung up without the SECC/LECC knowledge and there 
fore weren't listed in the monitoring assignments.  Others simply didn't 
have a copy of the plans for various reasons.

I tried to deal with the ETRS specific questions by distributing a tip 
document after I had dealt with ETRS for my station.  But inevitably 
there were questions that came up that didn't occur to me or by new 
stations that weren't on our mailing lists.

Dave

On 8/19/2016 2:08 PM, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> Well, from the point of view of an EAS manufacturer, it may take the broadcaster cable operator 6 minutes, but we will probably get 1000 phone calls at 1 minute each.
> That's only a slight exaggeration - the FCC had estimated the ETRS would take EAS participants up to 43 hours to complete in total.  However, our customer support team has been fielding well over 45 hours *per week* in fielding just ETRS related questions.  That, of course is one full-time equivalent staff position.
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