The FCC should limit broadcasters’ reporting duties in proposed testing rules (CD May...
The FCC should limit broadcasters’ reporting duties in proposed testing rules (CD May 19 p5) for the national emergency alert system (EAS), an owner of radio stations said in a filing Tuesday in docket 04-296. “While EMF understands the need…
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for nationwide testing of the EAS system, it does not support the Commission’s proposed reporting requirements” because thousands of broadcasters would “deluge” the FCC with reports of successful tests, said the owner, the Educational Media Foundation. The commission should “limit the scope of the reporting requirement to a small ’sampling’ of stations, and it should provide for electronic filing of data,” the foundation said. “Current logging requirements are sufficient.”