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EAS Multilingual Alert Survey - Broadcast Participants

The FCC has been evaluating multilingual EAS alerting for more than a decade.  In 2016, the FCC adopted a series of EAS rules that require (i) each SECC (State Emergency Communications Committee) to collect certain multilingual EAS alerting information from all EAS Participants, and (ii) each EAS Participant, including all broadcast stations, to notify their SECC by November 6, 2017, of certain information relating to the EAS Participant’s multilingual EAS performance and plans.  To be clear, the FCC does NOT currently require stations to engage in multilingual EAS alerting!

The Ohio Association of Broadcasters is helping the SECC gather the required information so that the SECC can update the State EAS Plan by the deadline imposed by the FCC.  To that end, please complete this short survey and submit it by October 31, 2017. 
 
IMPORTANT NOTE: Individual responses will NOT be shared with the FCC or any other government agency. Information collected in this survey will be summarized and used in the aggregate by the SECC when it updates the state EAS plan in the coming months.
1.Identify the call signs of all stations on whose behalf you are submitting these survey responses:
2.Does your station broadcast predominantly in a language other than English? Please include multicast channels (for TV stations) and side channels or subchannels (for radio stations).
3.If you answered YES to Question #2, please identify the channel and language(s):
4.Does your station currently air (or has it at any time in the past aired) EAS alerts in a language other than English? Please include multicast channels (for TV stations) and side channels or subchannels (for radio stations). (It is OK if your answer is NO or UNKNOWN.)
5.If you answered YES to Question #4, please identify the channel and language(s):
6.Are there future plans for your station to air EAS alerts in a language other than English? Please include multicast channels (for TV stations) and side channels or subchannels (for radio stations). (It is OK if your answer is NO or UNKNOWN.)
7.If you answered YES to Question #6, please identify the channel and language(s):
8.If you answered YES to Question #6, please briefly describe your plan and anticipated time line:
9.The SECC is interested in understanding some of the reasons why stations do or don’t provide multilingual EAS alerts. What are some of the reasons why your station does not air EAS alerts in a language other than English? (Select as many as you want.)
10.If EAS alerts in languages other than English were made available to you at no cost (i.e., without any need to buy new equipment or hire more staff), would you air them? (Again, it is OK to answer this question NO or UNKNOWN.)
11.If you answered NO to Question #10, please select all reasons why: