The FCC should integrate planning for multilingual emergency alerts into state...
The FCC should integrate planning for multilingual emergency alerts into state and local efforts and work closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Weather Service on long-term plans for origination of warnings in languages other than English, broadcasters…
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said. FEMA is “on the verge of formally adopting” a common alert protocol that could be used for those purposes, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 04-296 from the NAB. It reported on a conversation between Public Safety Bureau officials and representatives of NAB and the Florida Association of Broadcasters, which was involved in now-scuttled plans to test alerts where stations would broadcast warnings in the language of a non-English station when it went off-air. A proponent of that so-called designated hitter system last week urged the commission to mandate it (CD Aug 6 p11).