Posted on 01/28/2023 7:13:47 AM PST by FarCenter
Despite being a well-known illegal sound that many film and television productions have been fined over, US media titan Fox stands accused of playing the Emergency Alert System attention tone to promote an NFL show on dozens of TV channels.
The Federal Communications Commission, which polices use of the sound to protect its integrity, now wants to fine the organization $504,000 – just as it did for Hollywood action film Olympus Has Fallen ($1.9 million, 2014) right down to Jimmy Kimmel Live ($395,000, 2019).
You see, even if it's used for comedy, the FCC will fail to see the funny side. During the Cold War, the last time people genuinely feared that Russia could fire off world-ending nukes, the government devised a radio system to alert the entire country to disaster, man-made or otherwise.
This began in 1951 as the Control of Electromagnetic Radiation System (CONELRAD), where air defense control centers would transmit a message to key radio stations around the country by special telephone lines. These stations would then alert smaller radio stations, which would begin broadcasting the message themselves or go offline.
All stations broadcasting would then change their frequency to 640 or 1240, which was supposed to make it difficult for enemy bombers to detect the source, and simplified which frequency people at home would tune to in order to hear the message. This is why radios from the era have little logos on the dial.
It was unwieldy and eventually got replaced in 1963 with the faster Emergency Broadcast System, now the Emergency Alert System (EAS), which can take over practically any television or radio channel in the States. The FEMA National Radio System delivers a message from the White House to the National Public Warning System, a network of 77 radio stations across the country. These stations send the message to nearby radio and TV broadcasters, which are legally required by the FCC to pick up and start delivering the message themselves as soon as received.
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Fox stands accused of playing the Emergency Alert System attention tone to promote an NFL show on dozens of TV channels.
Can’t get any more idiotic than that who runs Fox teenagers.
I want that for my ringtone.
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For years, it was used for Tornado Warnings and now is used for rain warnings also.
This may have been for the benefit of the Yankees and Kalifornees who moved into the state and never experienced a typical Texas thunderstorm.
Yes, the alert will tell these noobs to take cover for a rain cloud.
Oh, is that what th3 sound was? I thoughT maybe it was Marie harff in the background. Mystery solved I guess.
A rather inexpensive publicity stunt, it seems.
Hardly enough to dissuade the next transgressor.
Stations shouldn’t ve playing this either—
using the familiar EBS Test script but sung as a cheery, uptempo jingle like the
types used for decades setting their call
letters and frequencies to music
Need to add that it is also used for Amber Alerts.
Hell, I hate it when I’m driving and hear a police siren, and it’s a commercial (”Cops and firemen use our cold medicine. You should too!”).
This sounds like it just compounds the problem.
😂🤣
You can find that attention tone on the internet, but take care to turn down the volume on your device first.
;^)
Biden’s administration is so living back in the days of Bush, Clinton and early Obama when Fox News actually broadcast real information. Now, the new owners merely mimic the rest of the ABCNNBCBS massed messed up media.
Regardless, somebody is merely using as a punishment.
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