FCC Prohibits Text-to-Speech

January 29, 2012
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FCC Prohibits Text-to-Speech

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...

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New FCC EAS CAP Rules: Yes to Converters, No to Governor Message

January 29, 2012
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New FCC EAS CAP Rules: Yes to Converters, No to Governor Message

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...

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Gary Timm and the EAS CAP Roadmap

January 25, 2012
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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)...

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Excerpt From the BWWG’s Part 11 Comments: Do Not Filter CAP Through a SAME Strainer

January 20, 2012
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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...

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If Not Governor Must Carry, Then What?

January 13, 2012
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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...

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Governor Must Carry: Moot Is Good!

January 10, 2012
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Governor Must Carry: Moot Is Good!

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...

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