[EAS] Get ready for some big changes if these bills pass

[Ed Czarnecki]

Big might be relative, and the *if* these bills pass in their current form:
- adding a DOD/DHS ballistic missile / "war" warning might merely mean new
event codes (likely mandatory and "immediate").  Whatever "immediate" means.
DCW event code?  (Duck and Cover Warning?)
- adding a capability to automatically repeat messages may or may not entail
updates to broadcaster equipment.  Automated re-issue from an EOC (with new
header info)?  And/or enabling broadcasters to periodically re-transmit the
same alert during its effective time?  That would change EAS gear for sure.
May impact some cable systems.
- getting alerts into streaming media?  FCC would be getting back into
regulating broadband again, which Congress did not want.  That could get
interesting here in the Beltway.	

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy

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