[EAS] Texas EAS Message "Flooding"

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> For those who receive Inside Radio's daily newsletter, there is a piece on
> use of EAS in this morning's edition. The piece includes a couple Facebook
> posts about TV viewers frustrated with what appeared to be a never ending
> series of TOR's relayed by TV stations as fully coded EAS messages.

Reading the twitter complaints, there are several related topics, and 
regular public doesn't (and shouldn't need to) distinguish between them.

WEA messages on mobile devices
    - not filtered by carriers, everything buzzes

EAS daisy chain on radio and TV
    - some carried all, some carried none, some changed during harvey

EAS daisy chain on cable and wireline TV systems
    - some override local channels, some carrier all, some carry none

EAS on direct-broadcast satellite TV and satellite audio systems
    - pass through EAS on local channels, no local EAS on other channels

then the use of subscription alerting systems and reverse 911
    - some alert messages where SMS instead of WEA

and finally, the use of social media for alerts
     - twitter, facebook and other social media were used by local 
authorities much more than public warning systems

The after-action review of how public alerting and warning worked and the 
opinion of the public of what they got or wanted will be interesting.