[EAS] MIA's

[David Turnmire]

I also got a pretty good response from Cable Companies.  Even heard from 
DirecTV.  The response rate was lower from broadcasters.  I did get a 
letter from iHeart on behalf of all of their stations (and a note that 
it superseded any reports from individual stations) with a list of all 
of their stations.

What I found interesting was that a high portion of all of the 
responses... especially those owned by large corporations, was sent from 
attorneys... who didn't seem to understand how EAS worked.  Often they 
seemed to think the FCC was asking licensees to do the translation 
themselves.  Often they didn't explicitly state what the primary 
language was for their station(s).  And often they indicated they would 
just "pass through" whatever they were sent by authorities including 
multi-lingual alerts... apparently without thinking about what those 
words meant or how that would work.

It doesn't surprise me that individuals at local stations wouldn't 
always be familiar with this stuff.  But it seems some attorneys are 
getting a lot of money for sending out reports that might as well have 
been uttered by a politician making stump speeches.

In the end... I don't find myself knowing more after reading these 
reports than I knew before.

Dave

On 11/14/2017 7:27 PM, Clay Freinwald wrote:
> One of our SECC Members was looking through the list of those that took our
> just completed Multilingual survey.  He noted that some larger sized
> broadcasters..iHeart, Hubbard and Saga etc did not supply the Washington
> State SECC with information.
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> Our understanding is that the FCC asked the Participants to supply the
> information to the SECC and that it is not the SECC's job to seek out all
> the Participants and pester them for the information.
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> One area that we received responses from,  that surprised us, was Cable.
> Several Cable firms, apparently, discovered there was an SECC via this
> activity.
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> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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> Thanks
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> Clay Freinwald
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> SECC Chair, Washington State
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