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No EAS on KYTX or sub channels

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600kogo

I have watched KYTX CBS 19 (on and off) since it signed on. For at least the last 5 years there have been absolutely no EAS on any of the Digital channels 19.1, 19.2, or 19.3. There has not been one monthly at all, or alerts of any sort. When the corporate engineer was asked about it he said EAS was optional! I checked the rules, it is not optional. If you are a non-participating station then when the alert comes down you have to shut off your transmitter and run a special slate stating to tune into a channel that runs EAS. But to do this you still have to maintain a working EAS system. I guess the FCC doesnt care that a major tv station in the Tyler/Longview market is willfully breaking EAS rules!?

Are there any other engineers or chief operators that read the rules as I do or as they do and you just dont have to run anything??
 
Well....this is from the FCC's website: http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/services/eas/

The EAS is a national public warning system that requires broadcasters, cable television systems, wireless cable systems, satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS) providers, and direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers to provide the communications capability to the President to address the American public during a national emergency.
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....and from a press release of March 27, 2009: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-694A1.doc

Some EAS Participants have expressed a desire to participate in state-designed EAS tests that employ live codes for events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis, rather than the test codes specified in Section 11.31(e). In some instances, these “live code” tests are intended to substitute for the weekly and monthly EAS tests using test codes that are required by the Commission’s rules.1
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I see the word "required" in there.
 
Well I knew it was required and they said that I was incorrect as I "only knew the rules for radio". A broadcast station whether AM, FM, or TV have to abide by the same rules.

Where is Robert Darling and the Dallas FCC office to do something about these flagrant violations??
 
600kogo said:
Where is Robert Darling and the Dallas FCC office to do something about these flagrant violations??
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Someone could "tattle". And when the FCC agent visits KYTX to see the EAS log and finds that it hasn't been updated the last five years so so -- the FCC will be laughing their way to the bank.
 
Someone could "tattle". And when the FCC agent visits KYTX to see the EAS log and finds that it hasn't been updated the last five years so so -- the FCC will be laughing their way to the bank.
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Sort of nasty...
 
Not nasty at all, nasty is the way that company treats their employees!! When someone is offered a better job elsewhere instead of making them a reasonable offer to stay, instead they cuss you out, demean you then offer you less than at the other place!
 
600kogo said:
Not nasty at all, nasty is the way that company treats their employees!! When someone is offered a better job elsewhere instead of making them a reasonable offer to stay, instead they cuss you out, demean you then offer you less than at the other place!
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Hmmm... personal knowledge not known to such as I
 
I just realized something that in the 7 years that KYTX has been on the air not one FCC agent has shown up at that station!! What is wrong with the dallas field office???
 
600kogo said:
I just realized something that in the 7 years that KYTX has been on the air not one FCC agent has shown up at that station!! What is wrong with the dallas field office???
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The FCC doesn't do random inspections anymore. They're not likely to show up at KYTX unless they receive credible complaints.

(or, they receive credible complaints about some other station located near KYTX and decide to inspect everyone while they're in the neighborhood - but from what I'm hearing they don't do that anymore either...)
 
While rules are rules, does anyone else feel EAS is irrelevant on TV? Most TV stations don't participate for local events such as weather. National EAS *is* mandatory, but it's never been activated, even on 9/11 when we were under attack. Of course, every major network affiliate had coverage anyway, along with almost every cable channel, so EAS probably wouldn't have added anything.

Again, if KYTX is violating the rules, it's a violation. But does EAS really matter on TV?
 
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