Public Safety Bureau Grants Comcast, Charter, Others Temporary Relief From EAS Obligations
The FCC Public Safety Bureau granted several media entities temporary waivers from installing operational equipment that can receive and process emergency alert system alerts formatted in the Common Alerting Protocol. Citizens Telephone Co., CMA Communications, JB Cable TV and other…
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entities were granted waivers, while the bureau dismissed waiver petitions filed by Allegiance Communications and James Cable, it said in an order. Granting waivers to some of the petitioners “is justified in light of their underlying circumstances,” it said. The small cable systems covered by the Allegiance and James Cable petitions were bought by Vyve, “which has filed its own waiver requests covering these systems,” the bureau said. The bureau also granted similar waivers to Charter Communications, Comcast, Kenai Broadcasting and other petitioners, it said in another order. The petitioners continued to operate legacy EAS equipment at all times, “thus, the public was not deprived of EAS alerts,” it said.