[sbe-eas] Required things to relay

[Skinner, Jim]

Steve:
 
As part of the state plan, all stations and cable systems in Nebraska
are required to monitor NWS.  In 1997 there where some rural stations
that could not do that.  I have been told by NWS that since 2004 a
weather radio signal is available to all broadcast stations in Nebraska.
NET broadcasts Amber Alerts but not regional weather.  If there was a
statewide weather situation, Emergency Management people could trigger a
statewide alert on NET.   
 
JES

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From: sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf
Of Stephen Weber
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:57 AM
To: SBE EAS Exchange - a mail list for discussion about the
EmergencyAlertSystem and other emergency communication issues.
Subject: Re: [sbe-eas] Required things to relay


Jim-
 
I'm curious, since you have a smaller-scale version of what Adrienne is
concerned about, how do you handle localized events of immediate danger
to life and property?  An example would be if the NWS issues a Tornado
Warning for, say, Scottsbluff at the opposite end of your state.  How
would the listeners/viewers to your networks located there be alerted?
 
Steve Weber
Chief Engineer
Americom Broadcasting
Reno, NV

	From: Skinner, Jim <mailto:jskinner at kxvo.com>  
	Date: Friday, February 19, 2010 8:11 AM
	To: SBE EAS Exchange - a mail list for discussion about the
Emergency AlertSystem and other emergency communication issues.
<mailto:sbe-eas at sbe.org>  
	Subject: Re: [sbe-eas] Required things to relay

	In Nebraska the statewide Public TV and Radio Networks (NET)
sought and received waivers from the FCC so all EAS comes from from
their NOC in Lincoln.  The rationale is that the only alerts these
stations will carry are statewide alerts.  In fact they are the state
Primary and Relays. 
	 
	As I understand it without such a waiver, each of the 30 or so
transmitters would need to have it's own EAS Decoder/Encoder.  Instead
they have one for TV and one for Radio. 
	 
	This arrangement fits into the state plan. 
	 
	Jim Skinner CPBE CBNT
	NE-SECC Chair
	KPTM/KXVO TV

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	From: sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-eas-bounces at sbe.org]
On Behalf Of Adrienne Abbott
	Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:40 PM
	To: 'SBE EAS Exchange - a mail list for discussion about the
EmergencyAlertSystem and other emergency communication issues.'
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	Frank-

	This brings up a discussion I recently had with one of our
engineers...I have several cases where a broadcast company has main
studio waivers for several full-power stations that are licensed to very
rural communities but carry the same programming as one of the company's
metropolitan stations. That programming includes EAS tests activations
received and sent by the "mothership". The rural stations do not have
their own EAS equipment because, among other reasons, there's no one to
check the printouts and do a weekly log. However, I don't think a Main
Studio Waiver includes an exemption for EAS and monitoring assignments
and some of these rural stations are in areas separate from the
"mothership" Operational Area. And the tests and activations carried by
these rural stations from the "mothership" don't really apply to the
communities of license, even if the "mothership" includes the counties
in their list of Locator Codes. . In some cases, these remote stations
are in other states, including states that are in a different time zone
than the "mothership". Is this legal? The manager of one of these
companies does not carry any local EAS activations because they don't
apply to all the stations in his network. Is this just a loophole in
Part 11? How are these stations going to handle the upcoming National
tests?

	Adrienne

	 

	"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it
requires constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 

	 

	
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