[EAS] Any state using TV for EAS daisy-chain distribution

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Aug 11 14:56:17 CDT 2021


EAS for TV broadcasters is a lot more complicated, and more opportunities 
for something not to work.

I ended up DVR four TV stations near Washington DC. DVR scheduled from 
2:15pm to 2:45pm.  Randomly picked.

WRC 4.1
   No eas alert, no eas audio, no eas text crawl.  Was running a Storm Team 
4 weather text crawl at the bottom of the screen for severe weather 
warnings. I watched the DVR several times in case I missed the NPT in the 
weather warnings.

WDDN 23.1
   EAS text crawl only, no eas audio, program audio continued 
uninterrupted.

WZDC 44.1
   No eas alert, no eas text crawl, no eas audio

WJALDT 68.1
   EAS text crawl, multiple restarts, multiple poor EAS audio, cut-off 
early without EOM

Four randomly chosen TV stations.  Zero successful EAS tests.



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