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

[Ed Czarnecki]

Cable headends are unattended.  Their EAS units are locally sited, and
operate in automatic mode, and have done so for years.  So, the elimination
of the studio requirement does not have any bearing on the elimination of
EAS and LP-1s, as these unattended broadcast operations should be able to
operate in fully automatic mode just as cable does.

The "spewage" of local EAS messages is a separate issue, and part of the
growing pains of migrating to all-IP networks within cable plant.  However,
hopefully there are lessons hard-learned in one part of industry that could
be adopted in fully automated broadcast architectures if they implement
similar networked systems.

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Botterell,
Arthur at CalOES

Ed,

Cable operations used to be anchored to their localities by infrastructure
and franchise agreements.  Nowadays we have incidents wherein local EAS
messages accidentally get spewed nationwide from those remote, automated