[EAS] ESPN Does it Again

[Dale Lamm]

Interesting reading for a Monday morning. By embedding 1.83 seconds of the 853/960 Hz pair in a documentary, a network is fined $20,000. The base forfeiture amount is $8000, but there were previous circumstances that warranted an increase from the base amount.

If you were a manager of a facility that wanted to avoid this type of penalty, would you consider purchasing a notch filter that removed one or both of the tones in the program feed prior to the actual EAS encoder? I would think that a manufacturer of audio processing equipment could add this as an optional feature to their devices (with appropriate handshaking so genuine tones from the station's encoder are passed).

Dale Lamm
WHBC AM-FM