[EAS] False alert, WEA, Hawaii

[Lamm, Dale]

Out of an abundance of caution, I am notifying our LP-1 station's news director and morning show producer not to consider airing any material from show prep sites that contain EAS tones.

Dale Lamm
Director of Engineering
WHBC AM & FM

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From: EAS [eas-bounces at radiolists.net] on behalf of Barry Mishkind [barrym at oldradio.com]

At 06:28 PM 1/13/2018, Kenneth Otto wrote:
>Some news outlets will just never learn how damaging including those tones are.  They should be fined for every affiliate station in their network times one hundred then they might learn to curtail their desire for sensationalism.

        It might be interesting if there were fines,
        but the FCC has no control over cable nets.

>>
>Can't believe Fox News, probably others, are replaying the tv broadcast including the two tone attention signal.
>
>Mike Fleming
>Chair Virginia ECC
>

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