The FCC got three requests for emergency alert system waivers of a...
The FCC got three requests for emergency alert system waivers of a requirement that all EAS participants be able to get and pass onto viewers and listeners warnings in the newer common alerting protocol (CAP) format by June 30 a…
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few days afterward. Docket 04-296 shows (http://xrl.us/bne4ow) that low-power FM station WLCJ Marinette, Wis. (http://xrl.us/bne4nz), WEVL(FM) Memphis, Tenn. (http://xrl.us/bne4u6), and Townsquare Media for New York stations WDLA(AM/FM) Walton, WIYN(FM) Deposit and Delhi FM outlets WTBD and WDHI (http://xrl.us/bne4vx) sought delays Monday or Tuesday. The first two waiver seekers are nonprofits that cited delays in getting necessary equipment, which requests that were made before the deadline also pointed to (CD July 2 p9). The low-power FM station said it waited until the date approached before placing an order. Industry officials have told us commission staff have warned that waiting too long isn’t a good excuse. A Public Safety Bureau spokeswoman declined to comment. Townsquare met the deadline to install CAP equipment, but the main studio in Walton for the stations it seeks a waiver for has no commercial broadband service available and so the outlets can’t get all messages, the company said. “To remedy this problem, Townsquare is in the process of installing a private microwave system to connect the Stations’ Walton main studio location to a nearby Townsquare main studio location, which would give the Stations access to broadband.” It ought to take three to six months to install that microwave system, the company said. Others seeking waivers recently but before June 30 include Pene Broadcasting for Leesville, La., stations KLLA(AM) and KJAE(FM) (http://xrl.us/bne48d) and Americus Communications for Wisconsin outlets WPCN(AM) and WSPT(FM), both in Stevens Point, and WKQH(FM) Marathon (http://xrl.us/bne5e2). Those companies said they waited to see if the deadline would be again extended by the commission. Other broadcasters and cable operators had also sought delays in recent days (CD July 3 p13).