Nebraska Public Media is deploying the Digital Alert Systems DASDEC Emergency Alert System (EAS) messaging platform at all of its radio and TV stations as part of its implementation of an IP infrastructure to prepare for transitioning to ATSC 3.0.
The public broadcaster is installing about 20 DASDEC units for redundancy and to support regional emergency messaging around Nebraska.
Phil Kurz of TV Technology is reporting that “the deployment is in line with the public broadcaster’s transition to IP in preparation for 3.0 broadcasts.”
“We’ve been redesigning our signal distribution out to all our sites, and part of that redesign was to move to an IP workflow. We’ve also got ATSC 3 on our horizon. We knew our old equipment wasn’t up to the task,” said Al Krause, network operations manager at Nebraska Public Media.