While listening online I was surprised the EMS test gets played on the internet stream while its being tested. Just thought it would go over on the radio and not theh internet stream. First time hearing that.
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EMS Test Heard On The Lite 100.5 Stream
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It all depends on where you have the EAS situated in the air chain. I had a single station setup with the EAS unit in the studio running right though a channel on the board. With the EAS running through the board, it went onto the stream just like everything else. I had another setup in a multiple-station cluster where the EAS unit was in the rack. When you hit a test, it muted the feed to the STL of each station and broadcast the EAS test. The programming would go through uninterrupted to the stream.
I haven't checked it out, but I'm fairly certain WTIC AM/FM run one EAS box, and then WRCH and WZMX have their own, possibly in the studio and running through the board.
I haven't checked it out, but I'm fairly certain WTIC AM/FM run one EAS box, and then WRCH and WZMX have their own, possibly in the studio and running through the board.
Even if the EAS is after the board and before the encoder and STL, it still goes out online. The EAS should be able to take over anytime, not just when potted up, and not play with the music in the background.
It is nice to hear an EAS test online, especially since EAS isn't required for Internet radio. But still, many local listeners also listen online, so they should get EAS alerts too.
I remember hearing an EAS alert announcing a severe thunderstorm warning on the webstream of WWMX-HD2. So the EAS also takes over all the HD subchannels (and their streams if the airchain is set up that way)
It is nice to hear an EAS test online, especially since EAS isn't required for Internet radio. But still, many local listeners also listen online, so they should get EAS alerts too.
I remember hearing an EAS alert announcing a severe thunderstorm warning on the webstream of WWMX-HD2. So the EAS also takes over all the HD subchannels (and their streams if the airchain is set up that way)
the setup we have at WXCI usually with the internet streams is through the Board. However, there are times esepecially when we do remote broadcasts with sports that goes directly to the transmitter site and we use regular radio recievers for our two streams one through a windows player ( i think win amp) which is our mac stream at 64K up from 24k originally which is used on all iphone apps and your Muze tunecast etc... and our other stream is through Jet Cast.
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