The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today handed out fines to three TV shows and a radio company for “misusing” the Emergency Alert System or Wireless Emergency Alert tones. ABC’s …
and the parent company of two Los Angeles radio stations drew less-hefty fines. All four also committed to what the feds called “a strict compliance plan to ensure such actions do not recur.”
FCC rules prohibit the use of actual or simulated EAS tones during non-emergencies and outside of proper testing or public service announcements. “These rules aim to protect the integrity of the alert system by helping to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners, and false activation of the EAS by the operative data elements contained in the alert tones,” the regulator said.
was fined $68,000 for last year’s airing of an actual WEA signal that was caught on crewmembers’ phones as they were filming. KDAY and KDEY-FM parent Meruelo Radio Holdings was fined $67,000 for simulating an EAS attention signal in a promotion for its morning show.
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