Advanced Emergency Alerting

Activity of Disseminating Japanese EWBS Technology - $15

The Japanese digital terrestrial broadcasting system (ISDB-T) is adopted by 14 countries in Latin America. Japan provides technical cooperation to help the implementation of ISDB-T in those countries. EWBS (Emergency Warning Broadcasting System) is one of the particular features of ISDB-T and expected to be introduced as a national communication system in case of emergency. The ?EWBS Superimpose dissemination system? which is improved from the Japanese original by adapting to local requirements in Latin America has successfully developed in Japan. Taking advantage of the robustness of the ISDB-T ?One-seg? technology, making maximum use of the existing broadcasting network, this system realizes simple utilization and wide coverage with outstanding reliability. This system is already introduced to some Latin American countries and highly evaluated. Japan continues the technical cooperation so that EWBS can be contributed to disaster prevention and mitigation around the world.

Yasuji SAKAGUCHI | DiBEG (Digital Broadcasting Experts Group) | Tokyo, Japan
Yasuo TAKAHASHI | DiBEG (Digital Broadcasting Experts Group) | Tokyo, Japan
Seiji SAKUMA | DiBEG (Digital Broadcasting Experts Group) | Tokyo, Japan

Creating and Maintaining a Statewide EAS Monitoring Service - $15

Larry Wilkins | Alabama SECC | Birmingham, AL USA

The Coming Transformation of TV Newsrooms to Include ATSC 3.0 Emergency Alert and Information Distribution - $15

In many parts of the world, governments play the primary role of providing alerts and information to the media. In the United States, the media — in the form of broadcast news departments ? plays the larger role of acquiring and curating information from the multitude of governmental and non-governmental sources.?

US News departments validate this information and present it to multiple platforms, including in most cases, digital platforms. There is no other contender for this role ? one would have to be built, and if it was doing only emergencies, the lack of constant use would likely put a largely unused and unrehearsed organization in a critical role at a critical time.

The new capabilities of ATSC 3.0 will enable TV newsrooms to more aggressively take the lead in being the live information dissemination source during local? emergencies.?

ATSC 3.0 will enable newsrooms to do the following:

? Transit video and rich media directly to mobile devices
? ?Wake up? a device when an emergency alert is carried
? Enable viewers to adjust which alerts wake up their devices
? Target emergency information to specific areas, and not others
? Target specific devices
? Stream live video and rich media (evacuation maps, instructions to devices
? Coordinate emergency information across all station channels

Michael E. Bouchard | ONE Media / a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group | Hunt Valley, MD, USA