Emergency alert system warnings should be delivered “immediately by all...
Emergency alert system warnings should be delivered “immediately by all possible means, without political or economic considerations” that could come with involvement by governors in some aspects of EAS, a group of broadcast alert experts told the FCC. The Broadcast…
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Warning Working Group opposed governor must-carry, in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 04-296 (http://xrl.us/bmofmm). A commission order Wednesday on the next technology for broadcasters, pay-TV providers and others to distribute warning messages said such alerts don’t need to be distributed by EAS participants when they're initiated by governors. (See story in this issue.) “Properly crafted, vetted, and issued timely local, state and regional life safety warnings should be ‘must carry’ without involving any vestige of politics to get in the way,” the broadcast group said of opposing governor must-carry rules. “We must find a way to issue mandatory warnings with absolutely no political strings attached. We think that this agreement could and should be achieved by getting all warning stakeholders together to work on this issue, not by implementing a ‘governor mandatory’ solution."