[EAS] The best public alerting quality experience

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Thu Oct 20 14:21:29 CDT 2016


On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Don  Heppelmann wrote:
> Our services automatically switch to an EAN or NPT slide if ever 
> needed, but now wondering this question: Are television station's 
> required to provide an "appropriate" slide for national level EAN and 
> NPT? Seems to me there was language in part 11 on this subject, seem to 
> remember the wording "appropriate" side, but I can't find it now in the 
> latest version part 11.

The FCC deleted sections 11.54(5)-(8) as part of the 2012 Fifth Report and 
Order.

The old text was:

(5) TV broadcast stations shall display an appropriate EAS slide and then 
transmit all EAS announcements visually and aurally as specified in § 
73.1250(h) of this chapter.



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