Florida TV stations are testing the enhanced alerting...
Florida TV stations are testing the enhanced alerting capabilities of the mobile emergency alert system (M-EAS). WESH-TV Orlando, an NBC affiliate, is testing the M-EAS by demonstrating how a banner announcement could be overlaid on mobile TV signals transmitted from…
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the broadcaster and received on a consumer device, said the Mobile EAS Coalition in a news release Monday (http://prn.to/1strP1R). West Palm Beach stations WFLX (Fox), WPTV (NBC) and WPBF (ABC) plan to add M-EAS capability to their existing emergency alerting equipment to enable M-EAS “to be received on two types of mobile TV consumer receivers designed to bring mobile digital TV to smartphones and tablets,” it said.