[EAS] Why do TV stations cheat on NPT?

[Sean Donelan]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> Our local TV stations ran the crawl over programming, with no other graphics
> or displays. In my opinion, the crawl ran too quickly for anyone to read.
> One station had no audio, just the crawl. I haven't heard how the cable
> providers displayed the test.

Again, EAS fails are Ok. Maybe embarrassing, but Ok.  That's why we test. 
Log, investigate and repair.

Faking EAS is different.

Not including upstream audio problems which affect everyone.  Upstream 
audio also needs to be fixed, but usually that's a larger problem.

EAS for TV (and cable) is much more complicated.  So its not surprising 
there are lots of burps and problems with crawls, ducking audio, missing 
5.1 or SAP.

There are multiple 2021 national EAS tests on cable and satellite YouTube 
recordings, I don't know specific head-ends: Comcast (audio noisy but 
ok), Charter/Spectrum (sounded ok), DirecTV (very loud but ok), 
Optimum/Altice (audio overload), Verizon (sounded ok). I don't see any 
2021 DISHTV recordings.

There are likely some YouTube recordings of TV station EAS which are 
really cable system EAS pre-emption.  I see that less often now than in 
the past.  But I'm sure the TV folks will pipe up.