OAKVILLE – Pelmorex Media today announced the launch of its new RSS news feed of public alerts from Environment Canada and provincial authorities.
The new service, from the parent company of The Weather Network/MétéoMédia, allows broadcasters, telcos, cable companies and other content distributors to monitor public alerting messages of interest to their customers using any one of the many free display programs for computers or mobile devices.
The RSS service complements Pelmorex’s public alerting data feed which was launched in June of this year.
“Our RSS feed will allow news rooms across Canada to easily monitor public alerting messages,” said Paul Temple, senior vice-president of strategic and regulatory affairs at Pelmorex, in a press release. “And that in turn means the public can be made aware of local emergencies that much sooner.”
The RSS feeds can be accessed at:
http://alert.pelmorex.com/RSSFeed_fr-ca.xml
http://alert.pelmorex.com/RSSFeed_en-ca.xml
Under its ACA family of public safety and emergency alerting products and services Pelmorex receives and distributes weather warnings from Environment Canada and the company also has agreements in place with the provinces of New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario and Manitoba, to distribute provincial public safety messages on its television, web site, e-mail and text messaging services.
The public alerting RSS service, its data feed and related services are available to all provincial and territorial governments at no charge.
