$86,400 Penalty on Noncommercial Broadcaster for Use of EAS Tones in Programming When No Emergency Existed
Using the EAS alert tones without a real emergency has led to several FCC fines in recent years – including many fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (see, for instance, our articles here, here, and here). This week, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau released a Consent Decree with a noncommercial radio group (American Public... Continue Reading…