sleepnandhiken t1_j6e9ilp wrote on January 29, 2023 at 7:04 PM

Reply to comment by hoxxxxx in Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 by blaspheminCapn

I feel like this fine is plenty of incentive for them to stop doing it in the end, though

mindofdarkness t1_j6ggjag wrote on January 30, 2023 at 3:33 AM

It’s not really. Fox’s regional sports network is valued at $22 billion (from a few minutes of googling). So they are fined about 0.002% of their value. It’s not even worth writing down, it’s less than a rounding error for the corporation.

sleepnandhiken t1_j6gvnkw wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:48 AM

Right, but if they don’t stop it becomes more of a thing. They aren’t stoked about just pissing away the money.!There are people above the people who made the decision who are probably hella embarrassed. Although imagining the top go “Let’s play the Emergency Alert Sound” is amusing.

But hey if there’s a new headline tomorrow I guess they didn’t give a shit.

sleepnandhiken t1_j6ine3q wrote on January 30, 2023 at 4:38 PM

Alright so new day. Turns out we didn’t need to wait. This is old news and Fox already stopped broadcasting this ad. Their line was essentially “Yeah, we kinda have a rule against this and we’re looking into who did this.” Perhaps should be taken with a grain of salt but is still an acceptance that they have to stop.

Which I think is fine. The law makes sense to have. The fine is the gov politely saying “listen here you little shit” and it worked fine.

Edit to include what I read: https://www.insideradio.com/free/fox-sports-admits-it-used-fake-eas-tones-on-radio-as-well-as-tv/article_6b18d2f0-9e1c-11ed-ab28-c7b167cea819.html