[EAS] CTA to Update ANSI/CTA-2009-B Performance Criteria for Public Alert Receivers

[Sean Donelan]

In other words, consumer weather radios.

Currently, by Public Alert standards such as CTA-2009-B,Performance 
Criteria for Public Alert Receivers, there are three alert lights on the 
radio labeled Watch, Warning, and Advisory. The National Weather Service, 
as part of its HazSimp hazard message simplification program, will 
simplify the current Watch Warning Advisory (WWA) hierarchy of alert 
messages to get rid of the Advisory category. CTA's Intelligent Mobility 
Committee has established a new working group to consider how this 
upcoming change should be reflected in CTA-2009, including the possibility 
of relabeling the Advisory light on public alert receivers.