FEMA plans to formally adopt CAP some time in Q1 2009. This will start a 180 day clock at the end of which EAS participants must be able to accept CAP based alerts.
Radio World Article on FEMA adopting CAP
FCC "SECOND REPORT AND ORDER AND FURTHER NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING" in the matter of EAS
Also, the FCC has release ANOTHER update (dated July 2008) to "The Public and Broadcasting", a copy of which must be in every broadcaster's public file. The newest version can be found here.
In case you missed it:
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In case you missed it:
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"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it" - Ambrose's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.
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Thanks for the head's up on the Public and Broadcasting. I was asleep at the wheel on that one. 