[EAS] ETRS Notifications

Tue Sep 13 15:31:10 CDT 2016

It looks like the listserv bot stripped my inline images of the FCC webinar, so here's what they say regarding broadcast stations:

Who Must File:
- Radio: Analog and digital AM, FM, and LPFM stations
- TV: Class A TV, LPTV, DTV broadcast stations

Who is Not Required to File:
- LPTV stations that operate as translators
- FM booster stations and FM translator stations that entirely rebroadcast the programming of other local FM stations
- Broadcast stations that operate as satellites or repeaters of a hub station and rebroadcast 100 percent of the programming of the hub station (but the hub station must have compliant EAS equipment and must file in ETRS)

As noted by others, this is the same language as in Part 11 regarding what stations are subject to EAS rules and which are not.

Gary Timm
WI SECC

From: Gary Timm <gteas at sbcglobal.net>

>From the FCC ETRS Webinar, regarding stations who must file:
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From: Alex Hartman <goober at goobe.net>

The FCC FAQ is so screwed up. Looks like someone wrote it with auto correct on an iPhone.

https://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/eas/ETRS/ETRSFAQs.pdf

States that if LPTV is a translator, then no, you're not required, but it doesn't explicitly say "yes, LPTV is required". And I didn't know LPFM was required as well... I seem to recall the webinar saying that LP was exempt...

Also, what's an "LPFM Televisions stations"? :P

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Alex Hartman

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Dave Kline <dkline at tvmail.unomaha.edu> wrote:
>Aren't they either LPTV or Translators?
>But not both?
>Isn't the license designation different for either one?
>Were LPTV required to sign up for ETRS and Translators not required?

>Dave

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