[EAS] [sbe-eas] Multilingual filing instructions

[Dave Kline]

Oh come on Allen, where's your spirit of adventure? :-)

In a perfect world, everyone else should have gotten the NPT from FEMA before they got your relayed Spanish version.
Shouldn't be a problem, right?

But seriously, this brings up the question of unintended consequences, or at least points to being not very well thought out in the grand scheme of EAS.

You have a non-English language station. EAS alerts are available in the language of your station. Who are you serving primarily? Your listeners or downstream stations?

Then there is the question of multi-lingual alerts.
Perhaps non-English language stations are good candidates to relay the alerts in the language used by the station, and in English?
But then how is that fair? Who's to say that since non-English stations have to do dual language alerts, that the English stations shouldn't have to as well. And then if you have more than one non-English language station in your market and the languages are different, does every station then have to alert in all languages used by every station in that market?
Of course you are using up your two minutes pretty quickly trying to fit multiple language messages into one alert.
Or you have to run multiple alerts.

Then... which language gets priority? In other words which one gets aired first?
Yet another can of worms eh?
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Dave Kline 
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On Apr 12, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Allen Sherrill wrote:

>I have a Spanish-format LP1.  I had considered running the Spanish version of the NPT, but decided not to...because I anticipated many angry calls from downstream stations that had no desire to air alerts in other languages.

>Until our station is no longer an LP1 I see no reason to act otherwise.

>Allen Sherrill