[EAS] Handle SQW code
Bill Ruck
ruck at lns.com
Wed Jan 28 22:14:37 CST 2026
One friend of mine, now SK, taught me that participation in EAS must be
voluntary because the Communications Act of 1924 forbid government
censorship. Making a radio or TV station broadcast something is censorship.
The President signs a "finding" giving him EAS authority but my friend
said that if anybody ever contested that it would be found to violate
the act.
The challenge is to make EAS something that a station would WANT to
broadcast, not to make EAS something that a station MUST broadcast.
Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco
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