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'Jimmy Kimmel Live' hit with $395,000 fine over emergency tones in skit

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...mmel-live-emergency-alert-tones-idUSKCN1V5282

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Simulated wireless alert tones used in a “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” skit making fun of a presidential alert test have cost Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) ABC $395,000 in civil fines with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

FILE PHOTO: 90th Academy Awards - Oscars Show – Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 – Host Jimmy Kimmel opens the show. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
AMC Networks (AMC.N) separately on Thursday agreed to pay a $104,000 fine for using an alert tone in a February 2019 episode of the “The Walking Dead.” The commission handed down smaller fines to Discovery’s Animal Planet and Meruelo Radio Holdings for other violations.
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I don't think the fine means anything though.
 
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