We get an EAS alert every day and it's usually timed so I miss the ending of a 2 hour movie or right in the middle of some non-related breaking news or when the weather channel is showing if I'm under a flood warning. Of course every time a bird lands on the cable wire it's out for hours. We're in the country so we would never hear a city siren so if there's an emergency, I'll hear about it first on FR.
What an ODD statement. How to they expect to wake sleeping people with the EAS?
Little to no problem with the second suggestion, BIG problem with the first. Such an approach is doomed to become another "V-chip"-like unfunded mandate from Your Federal Government that the businesses who make TVs and radios will just have to eat if they want to stay in business.
Speaking as one of that 5-15 percent who owns and uses a weather radio, I'm already not thrilled with the idea of being jarred from a sound sleep at 3 AM by an Amber Alert for some child abduction in Maine or Washington state when I live in Arkansas.
These ideas are the "boy who cried WOLF" syndrome writ large. If my TV, radio, computer, and weather radio are continually screaming with tests, alerts that do not affect me, "important" government notifications that I don't get enough fiber in my diet, etc. every 15 minutes, I'll either miss the ones that affect me directly from information overload, or I'll simply throw the damned infernal machines into the nearest trash bin in self-defense and miss them all.
I hate expert panels.