[EAS] Another EAS "stunt"

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Sat Dec 11 13:48:50 CST 2021


On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Barry Mishkind wrote:
> Today's Daily Digest notes an NALF to Beasley for running a fake EAS alert on KDWN.
>
> The fine, apparently limited to one market: $20,000

I didn't find any indication that Beasley pro-actively notified FCCOPS 
about misuse of the EAS attention signal, even though a board operator 
recognized the incident immediately and notified multiple internal people.

Beasley waited until the FCC sent a letter of inquiry.

Good job by the board operator. He or she probably didn't get credit for 
doing the right thing.

Negative points for Beasley failing to promptly self-report when it 
learned of the problem.

Positive points for candor and acceptance of responsibility in response to 
the Letter of Inquiry (even if the response had a few errors).



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