Here is how the Amber - EAS Activation Procedure works in Dallas/Fort Worth:
1) Fax is received from police agency at WBAP and KRLD (the primary news radio stations in Dallas/Fort Worth). WBAP and KRLD communicate with each other upon receipt of Amber activation fax, to insure that each other has received the information.

2) WBAP and KSCS (the primary EAS stations for Dallas/Fort Worth) activate EAS to transmit Amber Activation. Category is "Child Abduction Emergency" or "CAE", which is the EAS code approved by the FCC for use in Amber Alerts. All radio stations in Dallas/Fort Worth are already monitoring either WBAP or KSCS on their EAS receivers, and have adapted the new CAE code.

3) After transmission of the digital data bursts that trigger your receiver, WBAP and KSCS transmit the Amber Tone, followed by the text message from the police agency. There will be no reference to WBAP or KSCS in the Amber activation.

Following transmission of the message, the digital data bursts to terminate the message will be transmitted. At that point, the audio message from WBAP or KSCS will be in your EAS receiver. Stations then have an option of either re-transmitting the audio, or transcribing the message and doing your own broadcast.

As stated above, this procedure gives the receiving stations complete flexibility to either re-transmit the audio received with the EAS activation or re-voice the message with the receiving station personnel.

Once the Amber Alert is distributed via the EAS activation, the information will also be posted on this website.