Re: Amber Alert part 85

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:30:39 -0400 brouder@juno.com writes:
>snip<
>. All parties agree that is a police function and the only role 
> of the broadcasters is to relay the info to the public.  To that 
> end, Mass plans to ask participants to re-broadcast the info every 
> half hour for three hours.  They plan to accomplish that by sending 
> repeated EAS activations.  
>snip<

It will be interesting to see who actually participates in this aspect of
the Amber Alert.  I just don't see non-news stations interrupting
programs to run an EAS every half hour for three hours, for that matter
even the news/talkers might have pause to that kind of EAS interruption.
df