[EAS] CA Fires/EAS Activation

[Suzanne Goucher]

Actually, under the rules, Broadcasters can originate messages, since each licensee is the final arbiter of what goes out over his/her airwaves - First Amendment and all.  It doesn't happen often - see the Guam tsunami of a few years back, when the local broadcast station issued an alert because officials refused to act - but it's an important fall-back in case other dissemination channels have failed.

--Suzanne Goucher

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:
> 
> Message origination
> only comes from a government entity.