[EAS] BLU Alert Comments.

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Tue Aug 1 14:22:33 CDT 2017


NAB needs to step up.  Making this code mandatory is in effect giving
every local LE agency a key to every broadcast transmitter in the area.

This is wrong...

MM

On Tue, August 1, 2017 1:57 pm, Ed Czarnecki wrote:

> FWIW, NYC filed its comments today - among other things agreeing on a 6
> month implementation timeline, and desiring to change a BLU alert to be
> **mandatory** so that broadcasters have no discretion on whether air the
> alert.  NYC also seeks to extend the scope of Blue Alerts to any
> uniformed personnel - beyond law enforcement.  I am not surprised by



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