[EAS] 'Amendment of the Emergency Alert System'

[Rich Parker]

Interesting compromise....If' I read this correctly, we don't have to
do anything other than describe how it 'might' be done in our State
Plans.

And the 'originator' is ultimately responsible for providing
'alternate language' content (via CAP), so that it can be
disseminated/relayed 'seamlessly' by various entities? That should
prove VERY INTERESTING given that other than 'tests' and the
occaisional 'Amber Alert',  I'd wager that 99.99998% of all EAS alerts
that anyone actually broadcasts originate from the National Weather
Service - which if I understand the situation right now, is not CAP
compliant, nor can they be?

Sounds dead simple - we all simply add a line which states -
"Originating Authorities which wish to provide alerts in alternate
languages will provide that material via CAP, which may then be
decoded as 'text to speech' by broadcasters and other entities which
desire to provide such alternative language alerts"  - heck, NWS can't
even pronounce many of the place names in their coverage areas
properly, I can't wait to see how they deal with Hmong, or Tsimshian,
or Tlingit, or Tagolog, or......well, the imagination boggles at the
prospect of what THAT might sound like :)

Rich.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:
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> 81 FR 27342 - A Rule by the Federal Communications Commission published on 05/06/2016
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> In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) revises its rules governing the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to incorporate new multilingual alerting reporting requirements into its State EAS Plan reporting requirements. The Commission takes this action in response to a Petition for Immediate Interim Relief (Petition) jointly filed by the Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association (ISBA), the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc., and the...
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