Re: EAS

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Posted by Truth on June 19, 2009 at 17:40:18:

In Reply to: EAS posted by Tom on June 19, 2009 at 17:37:04:

unless you're a primary station, you're not required to do any alerts except for required weekly/monthly tests and presidential messages.

There is some merit to this, for instance where I work we have people in the building 24/7. If there's severe weather, our own staff will handle the information, thank you. For other stations, you're required to set the unit to auto forward if you're unattended, but again unless you're a primary you don't have to forward anything less than the required.

BTW, the primary stations in Chicago are WGN and WBBM-AM.

: We all know the Emergency Alert System that they test about 7 times a day on each station. When exactly do they use it? It seems to me that today's tornado warnings should have merited some kind of use of this, instead of a little "weather in the area" mention between two traffic reports and a commercial. Anyone know what the policy is?

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: unless you're a primary station, you're not required to do any alerts except for required weekly/monthly tests and presidential messages. : There is some merit to this, for instance where I work we have people in the building 24/7. If there's severe weather, our own staff will handle the information, thank you. For other stations, you're required to set the unit to auto forward if you're unattended, but again unless you're a primary you don't have to forward anything less than the required. : BTW, the primary stations in Chicago are WGN and WBBM-AM. : : : We all know the Emergency Alert System that they test about 7 times a day on each station. When exactly do they use it? It seems to me that today's tornado warnings should have merited some kind of use of this, instead of a little "weather in the area" mention between two traffic reports and a commercial. Anyone know what the policy is?

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