KJAY asked the FCC for a waiver from new emergency alert...
KJAY asked the FCC for a waiver from new emergency alert system rules set to take effect at month’s end that require the ability to receive common alert protocol-formatted alerts. There is “not any physical broadband Internet connection existing or…
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available at the transmitter site” in West Sacramento, Calif., because no “regular” ISP is able to serve that region, the company said (http://xrl.us/bncygz). It’s “investigated satellite internet delivery, and learned that this is infeasible because of obtruction [sic] to the view of the geostationary arc.” It will “continue to determine whether broadband Internet access has become physically available at the transmitter site,” and if access remains “physically unavailable, Company will request a six-month extension of the waiver,” KJAY said. When access becomes available the company will alert the FCC that it plans to come into “full compliance” with the new rules, it said. KJAY(AM) Sacramento, Calif., is the only broadcaster with those call letters in the FCC’s licensee database. The KJAY filing, made by a lawyer in Oakland, Calif., didn’t say what broadcasters were involved. We couldn’t reach the lawyer for clarification.