[sbe-eas] FCC Report and Order draft provides time to comply

[Larry Wilkins]

Alabama state plan list all the mandatory alerts, RWT, RMT, EAN and NPT.  Non mandatory alerts such as Weather alerts such as SVR, TOR, HUW are highly recommended due the border with Gulf of Mexico.  Those weather alerts, along with other state alerts are listed but of course we have no authority to mandate and is left up to the station.

As mentioned earlier, Alabama does have a monitor system which is presently monitoring 180 different EAS units.  The reason for this is so the State Emergency Communications Committe (SECC) can keep check on the "health" of our state distribution system.  Our database only logs events such as RMT, RWT from IPAWS, PEP sources (State PEP station, Sirius, NPR1) and Amber Alerts.

 Larry Wilkins CPBE
Director of Engineering Services
Alabama Broadcasters Association
334-303-2525
lwilkins at al-ba.com
www.al-ba.com
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Michigan stations don't use WEA, and some don't even use EAS for anything other than mandatory codes. I've seen a couple Amber Alerts, and the "energy emergency" during that long cold snap in winter 2019.

As for storm watches, I don't recall anyone using EAS, or even EBS for watches. Just simple crawls on TV, and most likely no mention at all on radio, unless there was a live DJ that was thoughtful and simply announced it on air after a song.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:24 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com<mailto:sean at donelan.com>> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024, Sean Donelan wrote:
> What data exists which shows the percentage of PA stations following the PA
> state plan event codes?

Following up on my own comment.  Alabama is one (of few) state which
collects state-wide data about EAS use and on-air broadcast.  While
Alabama is one of the best data collectors, its a self-selected
broadcaster population. Alabama didn't cover non-broadcast EAS sources
(cable, satellite).

States like Pennsylvania and Florida collect(ed?) data about EAS
origination, but not which EAS messages actually made it on the air
(heard by the public).

Ad-hoc postings on social media (X/Twitter, Facebook, etc), most of the
public gets first alerts and warnings via WEA.  The public turns on
radio & TV for follow-up information.

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