The information below was shared with us by the OAB office and David Oxenford. Thanks to both!
- There is currently no plan to conduct a Nationwide Test this year, as a broadcaster you still must file EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) Form One by October 4, 2024.
- Filing instructions are in the Public Notice issued by the FCC earlier this month.
Go here for David Oxenford’s informative blog on this issue.
All EAS Participants, with limited exceptions. are required to register and file in ETRS – including Low Power FM stations (LPFM), Class D non-commercial educational FM stations, and stations that are silent pursuant to a grant of Special Temporary Authority. The only broadcast exemptions are LPTV stations that operate as television broadcast translator stations, FM broadcast booster stations and FM translator stations that entirely rebroadcast the programming of other local FM broadcast stations and analog and digital broadcast stations that operate as satellites or repeaters of a “hub” station (or common studio or control point if there is no hub station) and rebroadcast 100 percent of the programming of the hub station (the hub station itself, of course, having an obligation to file the form). Thank you David Oxenford for providing this information.
Britt and Roger
EAS Broadcast Co-Chairmen
Roger Herring rherring@mizzen.net
Britt Lockhart eas.britt@gmail.com.
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