[sbe-eas] Wrong People

[W2XJ]

I am surprised that a major station would have left it out of it's 
carriage agreement. It is really silly to see a cable company step of 
real coverage of the same event. It happens often with weather events. 
That is why my locals are all OTA.

On 11/10/11 10:47 AM, Frank Lucia wrote:

> There is also a legal side to this as a cable company has obligations 

> to the entity that granted it a franchise to operate.

> And so it goes.

>

> --- On *Thu, 11/10/11, Bill.Westfall at cox.com 

> /<Bill.Westfall at cox.com>/* wrote:

>

>

>     From: Bill.Westfall at cox.com <Bill.Westfall at cox.com>

>     Subject: Re: [sbe-eas] Wrong People

>     To: sbe-eas at sbe.org

>     Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 10:24 AM

>

>     From an in the cable trenches perspective//: Now that the

>     transition to digital is complete it is increasingly difficult for

>     cable companies to selectively pass certain channels for reasons

>     already indicated.

>

>     However there is an even more important reason that it might be

>     advisable to decide to not pass broadcast channels. In our case we

>     are located in a county in California adjacent to the LA market.

>     While all the LA stations seem to pass the Los Angles County

>     alerts just fine, many if not all of them do not seem to monitor

>     all of LP1 and LP2 stations in the counties that their signals

>     reach.  So if our local governments transmit an EAS message it may

>     or may not be carried by the Los Angles County Stations. Since our

>     obligation under the rules requires us to participate in our local

>     county plan and not the plan for Los Anglers County we need to

>     make sure that we cover local alerts, even when the local

>     broadcast stations do not interrupt programming.

>

>     From a broadcaster's perspective I would imagine it would be

>     impractical for them to carry all RMT for all counties that they

>     cover as well as the flood of alerts that might arise in

>     individual counties during say a severe weather event. And while

>     the broadcasters may participate in the their counties plan, I

>     have been attending our county meetings since around 97 and have

>     yet to see anyone from any of the major networks in the LA market.

>      Our compromise is that on our details page we indicate that

>     viewers should tune to TV and radio stations for updated news

>     since the EAS system itself does an incredibly bad job of

>     providing specific information on it's own and needs the

>     broadcasters to provide any useful details as to what is occurring.

>

>     Oh and I finally have something I can respond to on this list, so

>     I thank you for the opportunity.

>

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