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  2. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    The FCC issued several fines relating to EAS tone usage in August 2019, including ABC being fined $395,000 for using wireless emergency alert tones multiple times during a Jimmy Kimmel Live sketch, AMC Networks being fined $104,000 for using the tones in The Walking Dead episode "Omega", Discovery Inc. being fined $68,000 for including footage ...

  3. National Emergency Message - Wikipedia

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    National Emergency Messages are treated the same as any other message transmitted over the Emergency Alert System, except that stations are required to relay them. [2] When a message is received, the receiver is to open an audio channel to the originating source until the End of Message (EOM) tones are received.

  4. Specific Area Message Encoding - Wikipedia

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    Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its ...

  5. List of sirens built by Alerting Communicators of America

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    10 and 15 HP models were nearly the same, aside from motor used. The P-50 was and still is the loudest dual tone siren in the world. The P-15 (Single-tone) and P-50 were still being produced by ASC until 2002 and 2007, under different names (P-15 being the RM-127 and the P-50 being the RM-135/T-135 AC). The PN-20 was the last siren made by ACA.

  6. Emergency alert test – live: Government reveals why phone ...

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    Emergency alert: Three responds after phone users complain they did not receive test. 16:43, Martha Mchardy. Millions of phones across the UK sounded with a siren on Sunday as part of a test for a ...

  7. Emergency Broadcast System - Wikipedia

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    "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test." "The following is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System." "This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Important information will follow this tone." Alternatively, the name "Emergency Broadcasting System" or "Emergency Action Notification System" could be used.

  8. Be prepared: An emergency alert test will hit your cellphone ...

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    Get ready to hear an emergency alert test go off on your smartphone at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4 — but don't panic. Millions of us will hear the same test going off on all of our phones ...

  9. ESPN faces proposed FCC fine of $147K for using emergency ...

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    Using this tone is out of bounds - it's a public safety hazard to confuse or desensitize viewers to actual emergency alerts. As the refs for these important systems, we made the call. — The FCC ...