[EAS] BLU Alert Comments.

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Sun Aug 6 19:41:43 CDT 2017


On Sun, 6 Aug 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Actually this intermediate step is not even needed.  Allow the automation
> vendors to access CAP and let them handle the whole thing, including
> automatic voice coding...outside of EAS.
>
> This would dovetail nicely with broadcast centric weather bulletins and
> allow stations the ability to neatly auto-insert weather bulletins they
> feel do not rise to EAS, but still alert the public.

According to the list on the FEMA website, the Associate Press has a CAP 
feed for its ENPS system.

I don't know exactly how AP processes CAP messages through their backend 
systems, but I assume that's how some alerts show up in the AP newsfeed so 
quickly.



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