FCC: Presidential emergency alerts to be tested

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http://www.infowars.com/fcc-presidential-emergency-alerts-to-be-tested/

FCC: Presidential emergency alerts to be tested
         

Suzanne Kubota
FederalNewsRadio.com
February 7, 2011

Everybody has heard the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). Those familiar "duck calls" that reassure listeners "THIS is a test...this is ONLY a test..."



The FCC is planning an upgrade to the tests by including presidential announcements in the system.

Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, explained to the Federal Drive the Presidential Alert isn't new.

"The primary goal is to provide the President with a mechanism to communicate with the American public during times of national emergency," said Fowlkes. The change, she said, is that prior to last week's order there was no rule in place to call for or allow a test from top to bottom.

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[Russell Kanning]

any good announcements from big brother lately?

[Pat K]

I think they should announce whats on sale
at the liquor stores.

[John]

My parents live in a place where the local government Gang uses the phone system to "inform" the population about all sorts of weird little junk.

The totalitarians pour their garbage into most young people's heads during the most influential years (through the government indoctrination centers), and now they are reaching out into the minds of those who thought they had gotton away from that.

It might seem benign to some, but the gates of hell have opened.
Genesis - Land of Confusion (HQ)

[Russell Kanning]

I think they should announce whats on sale
at the liquor stores.

pat k makes me laugh out loud

[neggy]

Oh joy.  I just hope they do it in the middle of the night.

I work in the Boston area, and every Sunday morning WBZ FM sends out the weekly test.

The killer part of EAS "in voluntary cooperation with state and local authorities" is that if you have one misplaced piece of paperwork, or fail to monitor 2 sources, fail to log tests, fail to rebroadcast, etc, the FCC will hang you by the balls to the tune of 10 grand for each infraction.

Thanks to Ed MArkey and the FCC, you can air an alert that there is a tornado on the way, and then once the EAS monitor releases, most stations are back to running automated or off the bird, with nobody at the board to follow up.

There was one instance last summer when IIRC WGIR  ran an EAS weather alert, then dumped back into automation and there was no follow up by a live person.

The station I work for has nobody in the building for either station from noon Saturday till I roll in on Monday at around 10 AM.

When the economy was better it was a different story though