Fake alarms throughout a Walking Dead episode have actually cost AMC over $100,000 in fines.
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and AMC’s Walking Dead have actually needed to share a million dollars in fines in between them for transmitting restricted emergency situation tones.
The FCC restricts the broadcasting of Emergency Alert System or Wireless Emergency Alert tones, or simulations of them, other than “during actual emergencies, authorized tests or authorized public service announcements,” the FCC stated.
An act aired on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Oct. 3, 2018 utilized a simulated WEA tone 3 times, the FCC states in a release on its website, including that ABC transferred the episode across the country to 250 TELEVISION stations. ABC consented to pay a $395,000 civil charge and dedicated to a compliance strategy.Â
During the Omega episode of The Walking Dead in February 2019, EAS tones sounded and were then transferred on “eight separate instances across cable and satellite systems nationwide.” The FCC states AMC confessed to the infraction, consented to pay a $104,000 civil charge and likewise dedicated to a compliance strategy.
Unluckiest of all was Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, which handled to catch a WEA gotten by phones throughout its Hurricane Harvey episode. Discovery, the channel’s owner, consented to pay a $68,000 civil charge.
Other broadcasters that have actually been discovered to have actually misused the caution tones consist of Los Angeles-location radio stations KDAY and KDEY-FM.
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