FCC False Alerts Rules Could Apply to Streaming, Oxenford Suggests
The FCC Enforcement Bureau recent advisory on misusing emergency alerting raises the question whether false alert penalties could apply to streaming, blogged Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford Wednesday. The advisory asks the public to report false uses of emergency…
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alert system tones and wireless emergency alerts, he noted. Since streaming programming is accessible on wireless handsets -- phones -- rules could be seen as applying to streaming services and podcasters, “even if Internet programmers are not otherwise subject to FCC rules,” Oxenford said. “These warnings suggest that online programmers should be warned that use of EAS or WEA tones in their programming could receive the unwanted attention of the FCC.”