As mentioned on the EAS Forum remailer, the Broadcast Warning Working Group (BWWG) will post AWARE Forum articles on our site, and the AWARE Forum will allow a BWWG author to post on their site. As many subscribers to this list know, Gary Timm is one of the AWARE Forum’s principal authors and has...
As mentioned on the EAS Forum remailer, the Broadcast Warning Working Group (BWWG) will post AWARE Forum articles on our site, and the AWARE Forum will allow a BWWG author to post on their site. As many subscribers to this list know, Gary Timm is one of the AWARE Forum’s principal authors and has...
One of the most thoughtful, constructive, contributive and dedicated people working towards EAS improvement from the start has been the long-time Chair of the Wisconsin SECC, Gary Timm. Gary is now an EAS subject expert consultant for the Touchstone Consulting Group. He was, like several core members of the Broadcast Warning Working Group (BWWG)...
Due to the current discussion thread on the EAS Forum about so-called CAP Converters, we thought we should post in full our Comments on this issue: The BWWG believes that preserving legacy EAS SAME capability has to be a very short-term solution. EAS stakeholders and the general public are being told that the CAP...
Within hours of the BWWG filing our ex parte Comments on the governor must carry issue (GMC), the FCC released its Fifth Report and Order saying that GMC will be taken out of the Rules. Since CAP carriage of any EAS events will not take effect until June 30, GMC never really happened. Some...
As most of you already know, the Commission today eliminated governor must carry (GMC) from its rules, rendering the ex parte filing we made scant hours before — moot. What the Commission decided is exactly what the Broadcast Warning Working Group asked for in our ex parte filing. We had no idea when the...
