How a Radio Station Works : Radio Station Operation: Emergency Alert System

Radio disk jockeys should remember to turn off the on-air microphone when they are finished talking. Learn how to air an emergency broadcast signal in this free radio station overview from an experienced radio technician.

Expert: Eric Nash
Bio: Eric Nash has volunteered with WXOJ Valley Free Radio, a Pacifica Radio Network affiliate station in Florence, Mass., working extensively with the technical and equipment aspects of broadcasting.
Filmmaker: David Pakman

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• radio station
• radio dj
• radio
• electronics
• mixing boards
• radio broadcast

[endotox1]

not a violation! our EAS works fine, it just overrides our broadcast whenever it feels like it... DJs never know it happened, but listeners get the EAS message.

[MDBUTLER0]

VALLEY FREE RADIO ROX!!!

[callumcolemanonair]

Liking the cable in front of the camera, Doesn't distract the viewers at all...

[exa121RETURNS]

@tigerhop: Yeah, I know. Like when I'm somewhere on vacation, I wanna hear something FROM the area not something I can hear back at home anyday like satellite or my iPhone.

[tigerhop]

I love local radio stations.

[Lusenga100]

eu gostei muito cara voce é fera



[xXJeeXTeeXAyeXmanXx]

@endotox1 unless you're like me and are just told to activate this and that

[OfficerNelson]

@cks1001 It's not an FCC violation to not broadcast weekly/monthly tests manually if they don't receive them from stations they monitor, in which case they would have 60 days to determine the fault and repair it. Stations such as this don't have to do anything; their work consists of making sure they received tests from both their monitored sources, which are automatically rebroadcast.

[OfficerNelson]

@Zachstar2000 Since I'm assuming they're not a local or state primary/relay source, they are not allowed per FCC rules to actually originate an EAS activation in the first place. The local government or emergency management agency, as well as the FCC, has designated local and state primary and relay sources in addition to backups, in which case they would be the first to receive messages from government officials, and stations such as this would simply rebroadcast them.

[Zachstar2000]

@endotox1

So is your station a third tier EAS station? Without the ability to Originate an EAS activation? I wonder how the local gov "Knows" the EAS situation in the local area and which stations they can use to get out a warning in case of danger?

[cks1001]

ya...its an fcc violation to not broadcast a periodic EAS

[e521soediv]

They didn't explain shit in this video.