[EAS] San Jose CA midnight evacuation order

[Mike McCarthy]

NAB and FCC need to hear that from counties and states near and far. The
former still trumpets EAS and broadcasters as the salvation to emergency
message dissemination, but fight compulsory carriage tooth and nail.

As long as Part 73 licensees choose to not carry EAS messages other than
the compelled federal minimums, the system is handicapped at the source.
Like blowing a horn in an anechoic chamber.

It's been 20 years since EAS was rolled out. Stations/licensees and the
states have by in-large thumbed their collective noses at EAS. You need
not look much farther than California to see that exemplified.

And if that's the case, then Part 11 should be streamlined down to RWT,
RMT, EAN (with Virtual Red Envelope), EAT, NPT. Nothing but ***the***
federal messages of importance to the feds and the rest (of us) be damned.

As much as Clay wants to chip at these silo's, many might be so thick
they're simply unbridgeable. At least not without committed participation
by Part 73 licensees as the link to the public.  Something not likely to
happen....

MM

On Thu, February 23, 2017 12:43 pm, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> partly a matter of dissatisfaction with the broadcasters
> ability to decide for themselves not to carry EAS messages (why bother
> using EAS if the broadcasters aren't going to transmit the message).