West River Cable said it will have to “discontinue operation of...
West River Cable said it will have to “discontinue operation of the four cable systems as soon as possible” if it doesn’t get a waiver of FCC emergency alert system rules requiring all EAS participants to have been able to…
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get and receive common alerting protocol (CAP) warnings by June 30. The company “cannot afford to acquire and install the new equipment required to receive and forward CAP-formatted” alerts on those systems, the subsidiary of a rural phone co-op said in a filing posted Friday in docket 04-296 and dated two days before the deadline (http://xrl.us/bnf889). The systems in Faith, McLaughlin, Timber Lake, S.D., and Selfridge, N.D., have several hundred subscribers total, are outside the co-op’s local exchange service area and are “very small systems that have long been unprofitable,” the filing said. Other cable operators and broadcasters have also sought CAP waivers (CD July 6 p14).