System of information of the people (SIP)

To quickly inform people in case of catastrophes the administration of the province South Tyrol has introduced a "system of information for the people", which gives the office of the civil protection the possibility to interrupt the radio programmes to communicate or insert into the television programmes a short message .
Also the RAS in addition to other broadcastings has been engaged with this system to reach therefore with his 113 transmitting stations nearly 98% of the population. Together with the warning sirens of the civil protection, information and ways of behaviour for the interested people are given by radio or TV.

There follows a short description of the ways of working of the SIP in the network of the RAS.

The alarms in the form of short bilingual messages from the fire department and the Centre of information about traffic are registered on a PC.
In the case the text programmed by the computer is transmitted by radio to the main transmitting station of the RAS, which is named Penegal. From here the message is transmitted as "writing insert" to the television programmes ORF1, ORF2, ZDF, ARD and SF1 and all the broadcasting network.