The FCC dismissed a petition for rulemaking filed by Lawson Assoc...

The FCC dismissed a petition for rulemaking filed by Lawson Assoc., which had asked that the Commission permit cable and wireless cable systems with fewer than 5,000 subscribers to fulfill their Emergency Alert System (EAS) obligations by employing EAS decoders that would pass through bulletins by switching channels that didn’t carry the bulletins to one that did. The FCC dismissed the petition as premature because its Media Security & Reliability Council (MSRC) was examining issues related to public warning, including EAS. The FCC said that, if appropriate, it would open an inquiry on EAS after it received MSRC’s final recommendations.