Public TV Shouldn't Be Burdened With new WEA Rules
Public TV stations have taken additional voluntary steps to monitor and test the Warning, Alert and Response Network, and shouldn't be burdened by additional wireless emergency alert testing requirements, said the Association of Public Television Stations, CPB and PBS in…
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comments posted Thursday in FCC docket 15-91. “Imposing any additional WEA testing obligations on noncommercial educational and public broadcast television stations remains just as infeasible, costly, and ineffective as it was eight years ago when the Commission last considered this same issue." Commercial broadcasters also have had concerns about expanding WEA requirements to include allowing pass-through of URLs (see 1601140047).