Emergency Alert Systems (EAS)

Campus Televideo (CTV) provides cable TV comb and crawl emergency alert systems (EAS) for colleges and universities.  A comb system interrupts all television programming with text and audio messaging whereas a crawl system displays text messages as an overlay to the channel picture along with audio. 

The platform can deliver radio and television broadcast alerts from Federal, State, and Local authorities such as NOAA or FEMA, as well as campus originated messaging. Campus originated messages can be activated through the custom messaging platform via an Internet browser.  The custom messaging system can store prepared messages for immediate use or create on the fly alerts.  Text to speech conversion of custom messages is automatic.  

Using FEMA's recently released Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard, CTV is working with several partners to integrate cable TV EAS within a single emergency alert platform that will include other emergency alert systems, such as text, phone, desktop, etc. providing a for single point of messaging origination in the near future.

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