[sbe-eas] Required things to relay [was Chilling Effect]

[Adrienne Abbott]

The stations in my question all carry 100% of the programming from the
Mothership. My concern with this rule is that the Monitoring Assignments for
the “repeater” stations are different than those for the hub station. I’ve
had one expert tell me that the repeater stations are out of compliance as a
result. Management is willing to add EAS equipment at the transmitter sites
but they have no way to “backhaul” the information about tests and
activations. The satellite feed is a downlink only and the remote control
and ATS aren’t “smart” enough to handle EAS information. In several
instances, there are LP stations and NOAA Weather Radio that the local EAS
units could be set to monitor, so it’s a case of the public we would like to
serve not receiving important information because there’s a technicality in
the way, which leads to my next question—is there such a thing as a waiver
from EAS logging requirements? One station group actually has equipment for
their repeater stations in boxes in a closet at the hub station. They would
install these PDQ if they knew they wouldn’t get zinged for not keeping the
EAS logs. 

Adrienne 

 

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Darryl -  

Thanks for the rule quote -  

I agree this is the way it is...I also don't agree that this is the way it
should be.  See my other comments. 

Clay

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From: Darryl Parker <mailto:dparker at TFTinc.com>  

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Subject: Re: [sbe-eas] Required things to relay [was Chilling Effect]

 

Adrienne,

 

The applicable section of Part 11 is 11.11(b):

 

"(b) Class D non-commercial educational FM stations as defined in § 73.506,
LPFM stations as defined in §§ 73.811 and 73.853, and LPTV stations as
defined in § 74.701(f) are not required to comply with § 11.32. LPTV
stations that operate as television broadcast translator stations, as
defined in § 74.701(b) of this chapter, are not required to comply with the
requirements of this part. FM broadcast booster stations as defined in §
74.1201(f) of this chapter and FM translator stations as defined in §
74.1201(a) of this chapter which entirely rebroadcast the programming of
other local FM broadcast stations are not required to comply with the
requirements of this part... Broadcast stations that operate as satellites
or repeaters of a hub station (or common studio or control point if there is
no hub station) and rebroadcast 100% of the programming of the hub station
(or common studio or control point) may satisfy the requirements of this
part through the use of a single set of EAS equipment at the hub station (or
common studio or control point) which complies with §§ 11.32 and 11.33."

 

The key test is whether the repeater station carries 100% of the programming
of the hub station. If the repeater station breaks for local inserts of any
kind, then the stipulation does not apply, and EAS equipment is required.

 

Regards,

Darryl

 

 

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