[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

[Robertm]

No NYC station of any significance runs un manned at any time. The necessary information gets broadcast but in a more civilized format. The one that usually play music just take a feed from  another station. Most TV goes live with wall to wall coverage.  Another issue is that not every NYC station really is. A number are licensed to New Jersey cities and have totally EAS monitoring requirements which are tied to Trenton. 

As for hurricanes and severe weather, we know its coming days in advance so no need for EAS. The NYC market covers three states and at least four fundamentally different weather zones. What is severe in one place can easily be a non-event elsewhere. 


> On May 31, 2017, at 1:46 AM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> I don't know if NYC OEM has originated a real EAS message. I've heard an AMBER alert on a NYC station. I haven't been in NYC during a hurricane or severe weather, so I don't know if NYC stations carry EAS weather alerts.
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> EAS has never been about the 24-hour news stations.  EAS is for alerting people watching or listening to all the other unstaffed cable systems and broadcast stations.