[EAS] Source of the "scary" text in Suffolk Co

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Lucero, Mark wrote:
> They sent three EAS messages. Each one had text in the description 
> element. I have not seen any clips showing the actual crawl yet.

Yes.  And the ordering of CAP vs. EAS distribution channel is 
unpredictable.  Each of the three messages may have reached different 
video participants via a different distribution channel (EAS or CAP) 
first.

Some video participants may have received the first message via EAS, the 
second message via CAP, the third message via EAS.  And all combinations 
and permutations.

Depending on which distribution channel video participants received the 
message first, decides whether they broadcast a text crawl with only the 
FCC required text or both the FCC required text plus CAP text.

Broadcasting three EVI's may have increased the likelyhood that some video 
participants received one of the messages via EAS first; and when that 
happens it broadcaasted a "truncated" FCC required text only.

The system worked as designed.  But probably did not work as the EM 
expected.