[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Alex Hartman]

EAS is also horses mouth, not media spin of "should have, could have" scenarios. During weather events, yes, many local TV stations go wall to wall, radio, not so much, and forget about cable and satellite stations breaking away. Given that many have ADS (alternate delivery sources) chances of anyone really moving off their favorite housewives show is slim to none. I have yet to see DirecTV do a crawl on every channel for local alerts.

On Aug 28, 2016 3:11 PM, "Richard_Rudman" <rar.bwwg at gmail.com> wrote:
>I see your point, Robert.

>The point I would like to make is that there are times in major emergency events having life safety implications when the media is not able to get to the EM community for information, there is major utility and Internet impairment, or there is a critical time factor.

>I look at EAS as our "last ditch" means to get information out to a public at risk.

>Richard

>> On Aug 28, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Robertm <bcstlists at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> I strongly disagree. Once a major event occurs, media goes wall to wall. Here, the music stations either rebroadcast TV or their news station if they have one. The last thing we need is EAS farting and burping with unintelligible audio interrupting real information.

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