[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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