More companies sought waivers of new EAS requirements as the...
More companies sought waivers of new EAS requirements as the deadline approached late last week. Lakeview Cable, Port St. Lucie Broadcasters, Inc. and Treasure Coast Broadcasters, as well as Telecommunications Management LLC and Avenue Broadband Communications asked the FCC Friday…
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to be let out of the requirements temporarily. Port St. Lucie Broadcasters and Treasure Coast broadcasters asked for two more months to install common alerting protocol-compliant EAS equipment. The broadcasters said they had ordered the necessary equipment but haven’t received it (http://xrl.us/bndpit). Telecommunications Management and Avenue Broadband Communications, which does business as New Wave, asked for a six-month extension of the deadline at 18 of its cable systems because it can’t access broadband there and a four-month extension at five systems for equipment backlog reasons (http://xrl.us/bndpjf). Lakeview also asked for a four-month waiver because it hasn’t received equipment it ordered yet. It also said it is consolidating some of the operations of other systems within the next year and asked for a 12-month waiver covering those facilities (http://xrl.us/bndpjo).