Engineering and operations capacity drained by manual EAS testing, configuration, and troubleshooting

$10,000–$25,000 per major political cycle in labor plus opportunity cost and conservative over-delivery to avoid disputes. • $10,000–$30,000 per major election cycle in staff time and outside counsel review, plus monetary concessions to avoid drawn-out disputes. • $10,000–$30,000 per year in lost engineering productivity and overtime in clusters with several retransmission feeds and complex headend architectures.

Business Affairs Manager coordinates via email with engineering and programming to get EAS logs and playout data, manually matches them in spreadsheets, and drafts explanations and revised schedules or credits. • Business Affairs Manager manually compiles documentation by requesting EAS logs from engineering, as-run logs from traffic, and stitching them together in spreadsheets and PDFs to produce affidavits and settlement proposals. • Chief Engineer manually compiles logs and configs from disparate tools