[EAS] FEMA and SiriusXM Expand Relationship to Enhance Delivery, of Emergency Alerts

[Dave Turnmire]

I hope that isn't still the case. Traditional PEP stations (AM broadcast 
stations) are hardened to one degree or another and have dedicated 
connections to FEMA. Once upon a time, I understood that NPR did 
something similar to what you describe for SXM using another PEP.  But 
the FCC recently told me that FEMA has  a direct connection  to NPR.  I 
was glad to hear that...  gives me more confidence that NPR is on equal 
footing with  traditional PEPs.  I would hope that there would be a 
dedicated feed from FEMA to SiriusXM (and Premier for that matter).  
SiriusXM can have the best satellite system in the world, but if they 
don't have a robust way to acquire the national  alerts in the first 
place, it is hard to consider them a robust source.

Dave

On 7/12/2023 1:09 PM, Kelly Alford wrote:
> I used to be the Engineering Manager at SXM and familiar with the way
> their SAGE EAS box was set up, I'm a little perplexed what SXM gets a
> station monitoring not near the DC market.  Now granted it's been a couple
> years, but all that SXM has out of D.C. is a single SAGE box monitoring the
> local LP1 WTOP-FM and IPAWS.