https://radioinsight.com/headlines/179748/fcc-report-8-18-kday-kdey-fm-fined-for-eas-violations/
This comes days after ABC was hit with EAS Violations when Jimmy Kimmel Live aired an EAS tone.
This comes days after ABC was hit with EAS Violations when Jimmy Kimmel Live aired an EAS tone.
The FCC issued fines to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Animal Planet, AMC’s The Walking Dead and Meruelo Media’s 93.5 KDAY Redondo Beach/KDEY-FM Ontario CA for improper usage of EAS tones this week. The $395,000 fine handed down to Jimmy Kimmel Live for an October 3, 2018 sketch that used a simulated Wireless Emergency Alert tone three times got the national headlines. AMC received a $104,000 fine for a February 2019 episode of The Walking Dead using two EAS tones. Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law brought $68,000 in penalty’s for airing an WEA alert of a phone during Hurricane Harvey.