http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.1 2012-02-11T14:16:18-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/17707.html 2009-10-12T15:52:00-05:00 2009-10-12T15:52:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Four applicants are in the running in the contest to build an AM station in Rockland County NY to assure that there will be emergency broadcast service for residents near the Indian Point nuclear http://www.rbr.com/radio/17707.html 2009-10-13T12:52:16-05:00 2009-10-13T12:52:16-05:00 Gregg E Zuelke In hopes they will in fact use the station for this.In the Carson City area of Nevada a few years ago, there was a fire so close to their local radio station, burning ON a major 'frontage' throughway and quite literally from north to south Carson, that one could 'almost' hit a golf ball to the fire line where the station is at. The 'local' radio station aired information for the first four hours of the first day, then only 'cursory' information at the top of the hour the rest of the day, when, the station was open for business. Once they closed and went to automation that evening, then, for the rest of the week one only heard an update if the 'news crew' was there making a recording in the 'morning' to be used for the 'rest' of the day, airing their 'generic music' type network programing otherwise.The Reno 'EAS' service radio also only had major updates when they were 'local' broadcasting, then only a 'sound bite' type blurb for the minute allotted at the 'top of the hour' newscasts for them the rest of the time.Only the television stations out of Reno did a good coverage until the fire was out, making sure that any warnings of voluntary and mandatory evacuations were being put out.Nice, when you can feel the heat from the fire for being so close to the front line that you do not stay local on air to keep your own community informed of what is going on with the fire. Hopefully the station being planned for the 'nuke site' will do better than ours if a disaster happens.