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

[Bill Ruck]

The key is local ownership.

In Santa Rosa Gordon Zlot's KZST literally braved the fire at their 
studio to stay on the air with as much information as they could get.

All corporate owners care about is making their weekly cash flow quotas.

When I am made Emperor For Life there will be changes . . .

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

At 06:15 PM 11/6/2017, you wrote:
>There is always a way. In NYC after 9/11 stations without news rooms 
>patched in TV stations that did have the resources and ran with that 
>for a number of days. No EAS was ever activated. More recently in 
>Houston I monitored a number of stations there. While EAS was used, 
>one station I monitored that basically locked their doors, ran 
>automation and let  EAS Take over. It was unlistenable as the 
>interruptions were constant. By contrast CBS Houston ran excellent 
>coverage without EAS. They had one station doing breaking events but 
>without the farts, one station in Spanish and the rest doing an all 
>news like format covering other storm related events. In all, 
>excellent coverage and public service.