[EAS] Furthermore re: Fire

[Mike McCarthy]

It's a wonderful thing if you have the resource. Illinois doesn't have a
state wide broadcast network in either radio or TV. It's back bone is a 
bi-simulcast of two state 45 Mhz radio systems which provide 100% coverage
of the state for it's EAS dissemination to LP-1 and LP2 stations. Such a
system has it's own sets of advantages and disadvantages.

Let me also add, and the TV folks on the list confirm, ATSC 3.0 contains
provisions for an EAS type data stream much as you ascribe.

MM

On Wed, September 28, 2016 10:00 pm, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> As a fresh-page approach I'd recommend careful consideration of the "Ohio
> Model."  Using donated bandwidth from the state's public TV stations and
> their statewide fiber interconnect, Ohio has set up a rapid last-mile
> dissemination of CAP alerts data over the public stations' generally
> pretty high-powered transmitters.
>