[SBE] EAS CAP

[Edwin Bukont]

Cowboy

 

I am not disputing your POV.  The central issue that I see, and where I think Russ was going, is this.  Yes, Amber Alerts are important.  And so are many other emergency messages.  But if EAS was allowed to be the sort of service the government really wanted, two things would happen:

 

1.  Station audio/video would be constantly interrupted for emergency messages from every tom dick and harry AHJ.

 

2.  There would be massive involvement of insurance agencies to determine the messsage priority protocol and what the value is of a lowered protocal when more lives are lost due to a message that was delayed by a higher protocol.

 

For emergency messages to work, there has to be local control of the priority.  That seems to be where the FCC and FEMA don't agree,,,who has the final control of priority and protocol.


Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT 
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