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Nasty storm - any stations suffer damage?
- Thread starter BamaTX
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It’s not.
KPFT seems to have a new HD transmitter. Their name doesn’t have -FM on it and they have the artist and title fields filled out (not dynamic). HD1 finally seems to be on the same audio level as analog and not quieter.
Now the only FM stations that still seem to be affected by the storm are KPVU and KLTN HD.
That night site doesn’t have long to live anyway as the station is vacating the land and going back to the current day site full time.
KJFI-LP has been dead air for several days. Anyone hearing La Mejor on any of the other 102.5 transmitters?
KJHJ-LP has also been dead air for several days with no RDS. I want to say it started before the storm. There's often issues on there and KCVE-LP so I don't really note anything.
Interesting. KPFT and KSBJ share the same tower. Do they not have a generator?
What is KPFT's studio situation looking like these days? I know they were moving into a house next to the old Mexican Consulate property. The house lost their former tenants the day the Mexican Consulate moved, so I wonder what kind of deal they got on the house?
KSBJ seems to be the one with the generator.
KNTH & KKHT transmitter sites stayed on the air with the generator.
AM Radio while driving through the storm. Noteworthy: At 01:43 the cell phone relayed two EAS warnings. KSEV 700 did not...
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I watched the whole video. It's completely unacceptable for that radio station to have not sounded an EAS alert in conditions like that when the National Weather Service was clearly pushing them out.
Radio broadcasters get away with the lowest possible standards in nearly every respect these days but the FCC is still supposed to enforce EAS compliance.
Radio broadcasters get away with the lowest possible standards in nearly every respect these days but the FCC is still supposed to enforce EAS compliance.
The station’s owner apparently has higher priorities than public safety.
EAS alerts are automatic. If there was a technical issue that caused the alert, when received, not to be broadcast, that is a different matter. Stations don't control EAS... the national, state and local government does. That is why we do test broadcasts that are a primary responsibility and about the first thing inspected when the FCC does a station visit.
And essentially all stations comply as it is a requirement under the rules that authorize them to operate.
The system is automatic, and a station that is not "manned" (kinda' sexist word, btw) at all hours will still activate alerts and tests.
Or: the alert was not properly coded to activate at the station or the station's equipment failed to receive it. All stations must have working EAS gear that works even when nobody is in the studio.
They did. Watch the video. You can hear multiple emergency alerts sounding on the driver's phone but not on the radio station
Apparently KSEV did not.
My point is that the process of activating cell phone alerts may not have been done at the same time or correctly or not at all for radio and TV. To condemn the station, we'd have to see that 1) all other stations did broadcast at the same time an alert, or 2) the radio and TV alert was sent out a bit later, or, 3) the station had all the necessary gear but it did not work properly on this occasion even if they had complied with the regular testing and test relay activations.
We don't have all the facts. Condemnation at this point is premature.
You know the facts how?
It depends on the coding and the station location as to whether the EAS fires off. If the codes are off or the station is outside the warning area it won't go off. Just because the phone went off means nothing. In fact, the complaint seems to be you received the EAS alerts but not off the source you wanted. I'd be much more concerned about the phone firing off than a radio station. Everybody has a phone. Not everybody is listening to radio at that moment and Houston has, what, 100 choices for stations. What other stations were checked?
This is just a lot of excuses. KSEV's studios are in Houston and all of Houston was in the warned area. There are plenty of news reports to be found detailing the path and severity of the derecho.
KSEV is required to have working EAS equipment and broadcast alerts when they are issued. They did not.
This is a red herring. The subject is the FCC's EAS requirement for radio.
Where did you get KSEV from? The video’s description mentions a progressive talk show on KPFT, the audio sounds very much like it’s coming from an FM station rather than the much more limited frequency response of AM, and the content being aired does not sound like anything that would run on a “conservative” formatted station, especially not the “Equity Academy Real Estate Radio Show” that KSEV advertises as being aired during the 6PM hour.
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