<story><title>The FCC Fined &apos;Jimmy Kimmel Live&apos; &apos;The Walking Dead&apos; for Use of Emergency Tones</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jimmy-kimmel-live-walking-dead-fcc-fine/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dacohenii</author><text>You better believe it! EAS is no joke, and FCC is right to take a hard line.&lt;p&gt;Not very many people know that tone contains data. (It&amp;#x27;s pretty interesting, really; see wiki link below.)&lt;p&gt;Broadcasters have an EAS box that listens for alert tones on other frequencies and repeats it over the broadcast frequency (and others may listen, etc). Among other things, the data in the tone affects how far it propagates, so if someone plays a tone over the air that&amp;#x27;s set to propagate nationwide, it&amp;#x27;s kind of a problem.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last.&lt;p&gt;Source: I worked on the engineering team at my college radio station (WSBF-FM Clemson).&lt;p&gt;EAS header: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Emergency_Alert_System#EAS_header&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Emergency_Alert_System#EAS_hea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The FCC Fined &apos;Jimmy Kimmel Live&apos; &apos;The Walking Dead&apos; for Use of Emergency Tones</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jimmy-kimmel-live-walking-dead-fcc-fine/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akeck</author><text>I also wish there was a rule preventing the use of motor vehicle horns and emergency services siren sounds on any radio station. People are tired driving home and may react unpredictably in dense traffic to sirens and horns on the radio.</text></comment>