Re: EAS(y)...not...

[Chuckigo@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/7/99 6:28:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
brian_vita@cssinc.com writes:

<< Could it be that there's only one EAS decoder at Morrissey Blvd located 
way 
 downstream in the audio path that seizes control of all 5 stations.  It 
 would make more sense than five separate ones doing their own thing.  Since 
 the stations all share the same Audio Vault it would be a likely scenario. >>


brian

  each studio has its' own EAS SAGE encoder/decoder broadcast unit.  each 
unit is wired directly to the stations STL.  it overrides any and all audio 
originating from the stations' master control.   it can, as Jason (from WPLM) 
so very skillfully put it, be run the right way, or the sloppy way.  sounds 
like WROR and WSJZ were not on the ball today.  if you listen carefully in 
the future, you may notice the event "following" an EAS test/broadcast tends 
to "clip" at the head.  that's because it takes the EAS unit almost a full 
second or so to "release" control of the audio chain.

chuck igo (wror)

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