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

[Robertm]

That's a dim assessment. Part of the problem is the EAS structure being stretched to trying to handle local emergencies. The system is not broadcast friendly. Adequate for the EAN that might never come but just plain disruptive for local events. Local could be done much better at virtually no cost to broadcasters. 

When EAS began in 1996, I had problems with programming allowing any EAS on air. I finally impressed upon them that tests were mandatory. This was tolerated as they could run in stop sets. 

After I moved on to network TV, my successor at the request of the PD ran EAS into a pot ( I had it in line) and ran all tests with the pot down, produced tapes for the log and called it a day. BTW that was at one of the top billing stations in the country in the #1 market. They are much more diligent in recent years but that is in part because the PD in question eventually became an SVP for that same company and has a lot more than one station to worry about. 


> On Nov 6, 2017, at 18:44, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
> 
> Pretty much everybody on my side of the fence is painfully aware that their hometown radio station is most likely being run from somewhere in Kentucky.  So who should we partner with, locally?