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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Stations must file EAS reports about the November 9 national test by today

As Davis Wright Tremaine attorney David Oxenford writes on the BroadcastLawBlog - "With much of the publicity about the [first-ever national EAS test] having died down, it may be very easy for some to have forgotten that all stations and other EAS participants have an obligation to file with the FCC by December 27 [today] reports on their experience with the test." Oxenford says "there were many problems in the transmission of the test, and the failure of a station to receive or rebroadcast the test is unlikely to have a regulatory penalty." However, he warns that "Failure to file the form to give the FCC the information to assess the effectiveness of the test and to locate problem areas, could well cause enforcement issues." The appropriate forms are on the FCC's website, here.



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