[BC] EAS alert tones in movie preview ad

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Rich:

I'm so sorry, but you are SO WRONG!

The law doesn't just prohibit "attention signals."
11.45 - Prohibition of false or deceptive EAS transmissions.

No person may transmit or cause to transmit the EAS codes or Attention  
Signal, or a recording or simulation thereof, in any circumstance  
other than in an actual National, State or Local Area emergency or  
authorized test of the EAS. Broadcast station licensees should also  
refer to 73.1217 of this chapter.

The words EAS Codes, makes it illegal.

--chip

On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:53 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 2
> From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
>
> ------ At 10:13 AM 11/9/2010, Barry Mishkind wrote: -------
>
>> I believe there is an issue there in that it devalues the attention
>> signal as to its importance - already a problem in many
>> ways,  especially when stations do their weekly test by just running
>> the data bursts and nothing else.
>
> As has been mentioned here, the tones are not attention signals.