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January 28th 07, 11:30 PM
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Clear Channel and Public Service - We don't need no stinking local DJs
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:31:33 GMT, Doug Smith W9WI
wrote: David wrote: This is a failure of the EAS, not Clear Channel's business plan. There ahould mechanisms in place to allow the local authorities to override the regular programming when a time sensitive local emergency warrants. EAS is that mechanism. My understanding is that the local authorities failed to activate it, or failed to activate an alternative local plan that, if activated properly, would have alerted personnel who *were* on duty at the Clear Channel stations and resulted in the broadcast of an alert. In any case, how much good would it have done if an alert had been broadcast over Clear Channel's stations? They may have a 95% *share* of the listening audience at 2am, but how many people are actually listening to the radio in Minot, North Dakota at 2am? The right place for this type of alert is NOAA Weather Radio. Inexpensive radios are available that can be left on while sleeping, that can be used to awaken the owner when something like this happens. (you're not going to leave KZPR "Power 105" on all night every night in case there's a disaster - the disaster will be when you try to function in the morning without sleep!) While we're at it, the EAS (and this should happen at the state level) should be modified to stop running alerts over excessively large areas. For example, several recent Amber Alerts issued *statewide* in Tennessee in the early-morning hours. A Memphis resident can do nothing about a child abduction in Bristol 400 miles away at 3am; if you keep waking them up for this kind of alert, they're just going to turn off their NOAA radio. (and next time there's a chemical spill in Memphis...) I agree 100%. Right on. |
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