[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

[Robertm]

That's a bunch of crap. Speaking as one who was under 1 mile from the attacks and witnessed the attacks, broadcast was not disabled. Almost no radio stations were affected (none that counted). TV had direct feeds to cable which covered about 70% of the market so most people noticed no disruption and then there were still a number of TV stations on air from Empire. 

Regarding EAS plans etc, to my knowledge NYC has NEVER as of 2017 issued an alert of any kind and in fact has difficulties distributing RMTs. 


> On May 26, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Adrienne Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> Let's not forget that on 9/11 New York did NOT have an EAS Plan. That was almost five years after the FCC mandate for EAS. There was no way any official could have issued an EAS activation of any kind. And most of the major broadcast stations were disabled in the attack so they would not have been able to carry the activation, had officials been able to decide on a message.