[EAS] Check the on-the-air -- not just the EAS box logs
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Fri Oct 5 19:46:25 CDT 2018
San Antonio on-air recording for the nationwide NPT. The EAS logs may
indicated nothing wrong, but watching what happened on-air is a different
story.
Four of seven broadcasters in San Antonio had on-air issues.
KCWX TV 2 bizzarely played a recording of the 2017 NPT instead of this
year's test. Was KCWX's EAS box broken, so they did this instead? If I was
an FCC field inspector, I would love to look at KCWX's EAS logs.
WOAI-TV 4 scrolled the NPT - but didn't play the alert audio, just the
regular program audio
KLRN TV 9 also scrolled the NPT - but didn't play the alert audio, just
regular program audio
KSAT TV 12 mixed the alert audio and regular program audio together
KENS, KABB, WOAI-AM looked and sounded ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQgR_cZrjY
In this order, here are the following stations you'll see in this video:
0:00 - KCWX 2 (Corridor Television owned MyNetwork affiliate)
1:04 - WOAI-TV 4 (Sinclair Broadcast-owned NBC affiliate)
2:22 - KENS 5 (TEGNA-owned CBS affiliate)
4:22 - KLRN 9 (community-owned PBS member)
5:54 - KSAT 12 (Graham Media-owned ABC affiliate; recorded off-air)
7:01 - KABB 29 (Sinclair-owned Fox affiliate)
8:31 - WOAI-AM 1200 (iHeartMedia-owned news/talk format; local EAS
primary)
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