The government is using the results of two emergency alert...
The government is using the results of two emergency alert system tests in Alaska (CD Feb 3 p5) and the “lessons learned” from them to complete a plan for the first ever nationwide exercise of EAS, an FCC official wrote…
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on the agency’s blog Friday afternoon. Some have said that testing the current EAS standard may bear limited fruit because it won’t test a new standard from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Why bother testing the current EAS when the Federal government is moving to next generation alerting systems such as the Integrated Public Alerts and Warning System,” wrote Deputy Chief Lisa Fowlkes of the Public Safety Bureau. “The current EAS is designed to work when other methods of disseminating emergency alerts are unavailable” and FEMA has said “the current EAS will play a primary role in IPAWS for the foreseeable future,” she wrote. The purpose of the exercise isn’t to play “'gotcha’ with broadcasters or other EAS Participants,” which include DBS providers, satellite radio, cable operators and telco-TV providers, Fowlkes wrote: It’s to “determine what is working in the EAS and what is not and to work together” to make any needed improvements.