The FCC will seek comment on emergency alert...
The FCC will seek comment on emergency alert service (EAS) issues, including use of a national location code, national periodic test (NPT) code use, and video crawl and audio accessibility, it said in a rulemaking notice released last week (http://bit.ly/URszkY).…
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The commission seeks comment on whether it should require the NPT to be activated like any other EAS alert, it said. Doing so would satisfy Federal Emergency Management Agency’s desire for a test in the near future, “and would do so in a manner that imposes minimal costs on EAS participants,” it said. The commission asks what might constitute “a speed that can be read by viewers,” and whether it should include a specific crawl speed in its rules, it said. The initial and reply comment deadlines are 30 days and 45 days from the Federal Register publication date respectively, it said.