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ESPN Faces Proposed Fine for Improper Use of Emergency Alert Tones
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A fine of about $200,000. Disney can recover that, a hundred times over, when the first wave of renewed ESPN+ subscriptions at $11.99 starts rolling in.
$200K is a rounding error to Disney.
The news release says in part:
"ESPN has a history of noncompliance with the Commission’s EAS rules and was fined in 2015 and 2021 for EAS violations."
Does anyone know what ESPN did to break the EAS rules back then, and how much those fines were?
"ESPN has a history of noncompliance with the Commission’s EAS rules and was fined in 2015 and 2021 for EAS violations."
Does anyone know what ESPN did to break the EAS rules back then, and how much those fines were?
Various networks including ESPN paid a total of $1.4 million in fines for using EAS tones in a movie trailer in 2015:
arstechnica.com
The networks: "We didn't produce the commercial, and we weren't trying to be deceptive"
The FCC: "Tough luck, you have to be responsible for what you broadcast"
Viacom and ESPN fined for using emergency alert tones to advertise movie
“Olympus Has Fallen” ad used Emergency Alert System tones, bringing $1.4M fine.
arstechnica.com
The networks: "We didn't produce the commercial, and we weren't trying to be deceptive"
The FCC: "Tough luck, you have to be responsible for what you broadcast"
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