FCC granted series of waivers to small cable operators on install...
FCC granted series of waivers to small cable operators on installation of Emergency Alert Systems (EAS). Commission rules require cable systems with fewer than 5,000 subscribers per headend to either provide national level EAS messages on all program channels…
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or install EAS equipment and provide video interrupt and audio alert on all program channels and EAS audio and video messages on at least one program channel by Oct. 1. In 1992, Commission amended rules to provide financial relief for small systems, giving them waivers on case-by-case basis. Centre TV of Wheeling, W.Va., received temporary 1-year waiver; company, which has 1,478 subscribers, had asked for 3 years. Bayou Cable of Ark. and La. asked for and received 2-year waiver for its system in Sterlington, La. (603 subscribers), 3 years for systems in Huttig (284 subscribers), Strong (319), Ark., Marion (255) and Rocky Branch (201), La. Branch Cable of Miss. received 1-year reprieve for 2 systems and 3-year waivers for 7 systems. Company said systems had 89-869 subscribers. KRM Cablevision of Wis. received 1-year waivers for 5 systems and 2-year waiver for 5 systems that have 62-307 subscribers. Mattawamkeag Cablevision was granted 2-year waiver for system with 300 subscribers. Milestone Communications, with systems in W.Va., Pa. and N.Y., got 3-year waivers for each of its 17 systems, which serve 19-800 subscribers.