[EAS] 'improving' EAS

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:06 AM 7/14/2018, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>I'm referring to the FCC's (as well as the legislative and executive
>branch's) current political party in control. They're collectively bent on
>undoing any regulation "they" see as unnecessary regardless of the
>consequences.

        Actually, they seem to be *adding* more
        "make-work" ... Will the ETRS and other 
        web forms continue to proliferate in order
        that someone have a job to tell us six to
        18 months later what happened with an
        EAS test, or how many paid the ransom
        ($435) to register a dish they may have
        used for 20 years o     r more?

        Given that several Congressmen are/were
        station owners and that they have the
        power to fix this, it would seem the NAB 
        and state associations should be on top of 
        this, instead of pushing to kill 
        ownership caps. 

        Oh .. wait ... owners rarely ever see or 
        hear about EAS, except as an annoyance
        in programming. We (largely tech folks)
        have not been able to get any real buy-in
        to EAS from management or programming. 

        Except in exceptional areas, EAS is slowly
        being dismantled because the forms and
        reports and demands grow, while the FCC
        and even the FEMA, to a large extent, ignore
        the needs of the industry. 

        e.g. Will we ever learn what "immediately" means
        in GovSpeak, from a bunch of bureaucrats that
        believe all stations and cable systems are manned
        24/7?  

        O'Reilly's comments noted, I think, that this
        "notification of false alerts" was made part
        of the Rules without any real examination of
        what is going on - except the apparent need
        to hire someone (or someones) to read the
        web form entries and add to the dataset.