[EAS] The best public alerting quality experience
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Wed Oct 19 15:30:43 CDT 2016
While working on a letter to the FCC about last month's National Periodic
Test, I looked at recordings by people on youtube of the NPT on various
radio and television stations. There was some variability in the public
alerting experience.
Youtuber's tend to post the funny and the failures. On Youtube HD
recordings, EAS sounds like bad iPhone recordings and looks like the
cheapest NTSC character generators from the 1980s over a black screen.
I assume EAS participants fall into a bell curve, with most in the
middle, some at the bottom and some at the top.
Does anyone have examples of the very best, real-world EAS public alerting
experience? Modern background graphics, clear and readable alert text,
and quality audio. Youtubers have created fake EAS alerts, but I want to
point to what actual EAS participants are capable of doing with 2016
technology.
So far the most interesting on-screen alerting graphics I found was from
WPTZ-TV, although it the audio problem from the last national test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhjXcu9DNc
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