[EAS] What's the point of LP-1s anymore?

[Clay Freinwald]

Richard - 

Washington State, when we sat down to write our Plan 20+ years ago, felt
that the LP1 concept was flawed from a number of stand-points.

> A LP Station can elect to drop their participation without any obligation
to EAS where as they have no official FCC standing and/or regulatory
constraints.
   A new -Owner, Manager, Program Director, format etc etc  can cause a
large shift in direction and cripple a plan.

> The only difference between an LP is what they monitor 

> The concept of running everything thru or via an LP creates a SPOF than
can and should be avoided.

> Broadcast stations should be a vehicle to distribute public warnings to
citizens, not act as relay devices for those down stream that don't wish to
monitor the same sources as the LP.

> All Participants should monitor the same thing as the LP.

> LP's don't initiate any warnings - and certainly should not.     No
broadcaster wants the legal exposure.    No broadcasters trains/screens etc
their personnel for the ability to issue a public warning.

> We must consider all broadcast stations to be operating un-attended
(because they can do so any time they wish, regardless of their EAS
classification) 

> LP's should be replaced with LOCAL RELAY NETWORKS using background
channels PROVIDED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT for the distribution of Local Public
Warnings

> Yes the concept of the LP is a carry-over from the days of CPCS-1's and is
a direct reflection of how the FCC was apprehensive about changing too much
when EAS was born.

MY SHORT LIST-

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Richard_Rudman

Local transmitter sites still have to have operating EAS devices that
according to current rules have to be set in the automatic mode unless
supervised by a human being.

That said, the LP relay model was flawed from the beginning as a hold-over
from EBS days.

I have long held that whenever possible we should start on a path, using all
means and methods available, to deliver EAS events directly and as
simultaneously as latency issues allow to all EAS Participants.

Richard Rudman

> On Nov 3, 2017, at 8:32 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES
<Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
> 
> So... with main studios a thing of the past, does the concept of an LP-1
make sense anymore?  Seems to me we may have crossed a Rubicon as regards
community service and particularly EAS.
> 
> Art
> 
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