Upper Ohio Valley EAS - Ohio Emergency Management Agency ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Comcast Cablevision Cox Communications East Cleveland Cable Erie County Cablevision Fremont Cablevision FrontierVision Operating Partners Grafton Cable Communications Insight Communications, Inc. Jefferson County Cable Kalida Telephone Company KAS Cable TV, Inc. Lowell Community Cable TV Massillon Cable TV, Inc. MediaOne, Inc. Nelsenville Cable TV NK Telco Orwell Cable Television Company OTEC Communications Company Richards Cable TV Co., Inc. Riley Video Services Telephone Service Company Time Warner Cable Watch TV Wellington Cable Communications Wide Open West COM COX ECC ERI FRC FRO GRA INS JEF KAI KAS MAS MED NEL NKT ORW OTE RIC RIL TSC TWC WAT WCA WID LOW (2) Audio Attention Signal The audio attention signal is a two-tone signal transmitted after the EAS header code. This signal is 8 seconds in duration and serves to alert listeners to an upcoming emergency broadcast. (3) EAS Message Text The EAS message text is the actual text of the emergency message to be transmitted. All Upper Ohio Valley Local Area EAS messages will begin with the statement: “WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM” and end with the statement: “THIS CONCLUDES THIS EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM MESSAGE.” This audio message, including open, close and body 8
must be limited to two minutes in order to fit within the recording space provided in the EAS Decoders. (4) End of Message Code The end-of-message code is transmitted by the encoder three times with one second pauses between transmissions. Its purpose is to return automated broadcast programming equipment to normal programming after an EAS interruption. B. The EAS Protocol described above is taken from the FCC Rules, Part 11, and shall be used exclusively by the Ohio EAS System. Each participating station, subject cable system and notifier in the state shall program their EAS Decoder/Encoder to facilitate the proper functioning of the system as described in this Operational Area Plan. 9
Page 1 and 2: UPPER OHIO VALLEY EMERGENCY ALERT S
Page 4 and 5: Ohio Emergency Management Agency (E
Page 6 and 7: This document provides procedures a
Page 8 and 9: station. The LP-2 is the alternate
Page 10 and 11: VI. EAS MESSAGE PROTOCOL A. The EAS
Page 14 and 15: C. Ohio EAS Event Codes: Whether us
Page 16 and 17: e-transmit any received message car
Page 18 and 19: E. Severe Weather Warnings: The Nat
Page 20 and 21: B. All stations and cable systems m
Page 22 and 23: This should include as a minimum th
Page 24 and 25: INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION RELATE
Page 26 and 27: ATTACHMENT I UPPER OHIO VALLEY OPER
Page 28 and 29: Attachment III PARTICIPATING STATIO
Page 30 and 31: PARTICIPATING STATION SPECIFICATION
Page 32 and 33: 117 North Third Street Steubenville
Page 34 and 35: ATTACHMENT VI UPPER OHIO VALLEY OPE
Page 36: AT&T Broadband 908 National Road Br

Upper Ohio Valley EAS - Ohio Emergency Management Agency ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?