<story><title>FCC proposes $504k fine for broadcaster&apos;s misuse of Emergency Alert System tones</title><url>https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiterra</author><text>It looks like this is the incident as broadcast: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also: The FCC document references the 18 Fox owned stations and says nothing about the 200+ affiliate stations. Are those stations culpable if they also broadcast Fox produced content that was in violation of EAS rules?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>No low that advertisers won&amp;#x27;t stoop to, apparently. Incredible that they thought this was a good idea and that nobody put a stop to it. Maybe they figured that whatever the penalty they&amp;#x27;ll make it up in sales?</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC proposes $504k fine for broadcaster&apos;s misuse of Emergency Alert System tones</title><url>https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antiterra</author><text>It looks like this is the incident as broadcast: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;-AKV57rtYfo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also: The FCC document references the 18 Fox owned stations and says nothing about the 200+ affiliate stations. Are those stations culpable if they also broadcast Fox produced content that was in violation of EAS rules?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>So just so I don&amp;#x27;t misunderstand, it is illegal to reproduce that sound? Just for TV or in general, literally illegal tones? Seems to be just two tones put together (853 and 960 Hz), weird if you could make such a thing illegal.&lt;p&gt;According to what I can find, it&amp;#x27;s missing something called a SAME header that the tones are supposed to be prefixed by, maybe that&amp;#x27;s why FOX thought they could get away with it?&lt;p&gt;Edit: For clarification, the particular message that needs o be sent to be considered &amp;quot;Emergency Broadcast&amp;quot; is not just the &amp;quot;Attention signal&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s has many other vital parts (like the header in the message that it begins with). Besides that, the Attention Signal has to be at least 8 seconds long as long, otherwise I&amp;#x27;m assuming it should be considered one. The one FOX broadcasted seems to have been ~3 seconds.</text></comment>