[EAS] NPT at KKNU

[Ed Czarnecki]

I agree with Art on this point below.  Specifically, denial of the full
message text to accessibility communities is precisely the stated reason of
one major group for not voluntarily forwarding EAS messages.  If the visual
display does not match the audio component of the message, they don't want
to air the message.  And that will almost never be the case with
conventional/legacy EAS.  I do not concur with their legal interpretation
behind the decision, but that's beside the point.  What is relevant is that
some very large operations are effectively not participating in EAS until we
resolve this.

Ed

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

Deaf and hearing-impaired advocates would differ with you on that, Gary.
The practical implication of carrying legacy EAS messages instead of the
version rendered from CAP is that they don't get the full incident-specific
message in the TV crawl... which is also required in the rules, but not
supportable in the legacy format.  Plus multi-lingual as Clay mentions,