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Chapter 5
Connecting an IconMaster to an EAS Device
Overview
The federal Emergency Alert System (EAS) enables broadcasters, cable
providers, and emergency managers to receive, store, forward, and originate
emergency alert messages as required by the Federal Communications
Commission. EAS allows broadcast stations, cable systems, participating
satellite companies, and emergency managers, and other services to send and
receive emergency information quickly and automatically, even if these
facilities are unattended. Specially equipped devices decode EAS messages for
distribution.
The IconMaster can be connected directly to an EAS encoder/decoder or
character generator, thus enabling you to insert emergency notification
messages directly into the broadcast stream as a regular scrolling text crawl.
An external EAS receiver is required to allow this feature to become
operational.
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