Please mark your calendars for a critical meeting for the broadcast community regarding EAS, FCC and Disaster Preparation. Operations managers are invited and encouraged to attend.
Predictions of higher Hurricane activity, Oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, and changes to the EAS system are all coming to play this year. As broadcasters, we need to be fully educated on how these and other challenges can be properly managed.
Location:
HEOC
2711 E. Hanna
Tampa, FL 33610
Telephone: (813) 236-3800
Agenda:
11:30 - Lunch sponsored by SCMS www.scmsinc.com
12:00 – Larry Gispert/HEOC - 2010 Hurricane/Disaster Preparation Regional Update
12:30 – Kim Silva and Anthony Burgos/FCC – Emergency Response Efforts/Enforcement Update
1:00 – Ed Czarnecki/ECIG* – Current state of EAS/CAP for broadcasters
Please RSVP by June 11th to rsvp@sbe39.com so adequate accommodations can be made for you and your team.
*The EAS-CAP Industry Group (ECIG) is a broad coalition of equipment, software and service providers to the Emergency Alert System (EAS). ECIG’s mission is to promote the development, use and understanding of advanced Emergency Alert System capabilities – based on the Common Alerting protocol (CAP) - by broadcasters, government, and other public warning stakeholders.