[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

Suzanne Goucher suzanne at mab.org
Thu May 25 16:50:48 CDT 2017


True enough, I guess, but using LEW would remove the option in states where authorities want to send Blues via EAS but a station, for philosophical or other reasons, doesn't want to air them - the station would then miss all other LEW alerts.

> On May 25, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> 
> In theory, if the Maine State Police never send a Blue Alert via EAS; Maine broadcasters would only receive LEW event codes for other law-enforcement alerts.  The would never be a LEW Blue Alert in Maine.



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