It’s the third strike, yet all they get is a slap on the wrist?
Sports broadcasting network ESPN faces a proposed fine for using emergency alert service attention sounds without authorization - again, apparently.today finding ESPN liable for six instances of broadcasting EAS sounds not to notify the public of an actual emergency, but to advertise its upcoming coverage of the NBA basketball season.
"Transmitting EAS Tones in the absence of an actual emergency is not a game," FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan A. Egal said in a press release. According to the FCC, ESPN admitted that it"developed, produced and transmitted" the offending broadcasts between October 20 and 24, 2023, and further admitted that it"ransmitted a portion of the EAS attention signals as part of the promo spot.
"This manner of appropriation of the EAS Tones falls squarely within the type of simulation that the Commission's rules seek to address and prohibit," the FCC said. ESPN faces a proposed penalty of $146,976 for the six known broadcasts of the promotion - not much of a drop in the bucket considering ESPN's Q3 operatingFEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide todayfederal regulation when using EAS tones to advertise the film"Olympus Has Fallen," an honor hardly due to the mediocre action flick.
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