Initial Results for 2019 US EAS Test Show More Participation, Drops in Reception
Initial results for the 2019 nationwide emergency alert system test show more participants filing their test results than in the 2018 test but a decrease in the percentage who received the test message, based on a comparison of public notices…
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issued by the FCC Public Safety Bureau. Unlike the 2018 initial results PN, the 2019 document didn’t include a comparison with data from past tests. The two tests were conducted under different parameters, with the 2019 test using only the legacy EAS broadcast daisy chain system while the 2018 test involved the legacy system, the integrated public alert warning system, and wireless emergency alerts. Some 19,200 EAS participants filed results for the 2018 test, while 19,607 did so in 2019. Past PNs show 95.5 percent of test participants received the alert in 2018, 95.8 percent in 2017, and 84.3 percent in 2019. “One filer who submitted data on a timely basis on behalf of a significant number of EAS Participants made an obvious clerical error, which we have confirmed with the filer and corrected,” said a footnote now. The 2019 PN shows that 81.5 percent of participants retransmitted the alert, down from 91.8 percent in 2018. With the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "the Bureau will continue to analyze the results of the 2019 nationwide EAS test and release more detailed findings when available,” the PN said.