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FEMA IPAWS Special Event - EAS Virtual Roundtable

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FEMA IPAWS Special Event - Prepared & Ready: The Final Stretch Before the Nationwide EAS Test*

*Save the Date for September 30th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET*

Please save the date for the final EAS Participant Virtual Roundtable discussion with government and industry leaders on September 30, from 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET. The discussion will involve a variety of topics and draft documents for feedback that will support updates to the EAS Best Practices Guide and Nationwide EAS Test Informational Toolkit. Some examples include:

* Television and Cable EAS Background Slate
* Nationwide EAS Test Message Transcript Draft
* Public Service Announcement Audio Sample
* Nationwide EAS Test Data Reporting
* Required Monthly Test Activities and Findings

_Event Details: _
What: FEMA IPAWS Special Event - Prepared & Ready: The Final Stretch Before the Nationwide EAS Test
When:"* Friday*", September 30, 2011; 1:30 PM-3:30 PM ET
Where: Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 (This link will only be active the morning of September 30th) (https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/eiip/join?id=IPAWS&role=attend)
*"Please note that if you have Live Meeting Client correctly installed, you do not need a pass code or username (Live Meeting instructions "*http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/ipaws/livemtginstruct.pdf)
* *
*The event will finalize the best practices guide with industry for a formal release on October 3, 2011. *

In order to prepare the EAS Community for the November 9, 2011 Nationwide EAS Test, FEMA IPAWS, the FCC, and NOAA are partnering with industry leaders and experts to draft a comprehensive technical best practices guide on end-to-end National EAS message procedures. The guide will be updated incrementally with the EAS community through webinars, roundtables, and other activities leading up to the Test.

*Next Nationwide EAS Test Information Update- October 13, 2011: Test Preparations and Procedures*

Want to contribute to the EAS Best Practices Guide and Nationwide EAS Test Informational Toolkit? Go to A National Dialogue on the Emergency Alert System [https://nationaldialogue-emergencyalertsystem.ideascale.com) to contribute ideas or follow us on Twitter [ https://twitter.com/#!/NationalEASTest ] (https://twitter.com/#!/NationalEASTest) for information updates and events. * *
 
All this and the Congressional thieves want to steal away TV frequencies, and our Marti channels. Yup. I'm real excited. Sign me up several times. Mark the date. Oh yeah. Riveting.
 
Too bad my small-market friends got to pay for 3 EAS boxes and regulatory fees all the same time. Guess that means we get to wait another year or so before we get to buy a new console. Guess that 15 year old beast gets to work a little longer, we hope. Oh, but the public will be informed of very important information, eh, yeah. Somehow I feel the weather boys will be about all the ever generates a real emergency activation, just like it's always been. It's not about the toys or the way it CAN work. It's about someone other than just us broadcasters caring.
 
Courtesy of the SBE...

September 16, 2011 - The FCC announced today that they have extended the deadline for broadcast stations to have their Emergency Alert System equipment be CAP compliant to June 30, 2012. The deadline had been set for September 30, 2011.

The FCC said, "In this Fourth Report and Order, we have revised the rules to extend the date by which EAS Participants must be able to receive CAP-formatted EAS alert to June 30, 2012."

The FCC explained that more time is needed to revise Part 11 of the FCC Rules so that it cannot impose a deadline by which EAS participants must receive CAP-formatted alerts.

View the full text of the Fourth Report and Order on the SBE website.
 
It's going to be really good when more government fixes this government created problem.

Mebets the whole problem would be fixed in an hour if they gave the SBE a bar tab and a bunch of napkins... and then paid their tab and took their napkins back to them a day later.....
 
Amen to that Tom. It's amazing to me how over-complicated they seem to have tried to make it. In the end, it'll be a huge mess that we the engineering community will be stuck with, to try to make it all work within their rules. The only federal player in this deal that has a f###ing clue is NOAA. Guess who keeps getting gunned on budget cuts? If they gave the project to NOAA and gave the even a small budget to do it, something tells me it would work, and work properly. FEMA is worse than inept....They are in the way.
 
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