'Jimmy Kimmel Live' hit with $395,000 fine over emergency tones in skit

WASHINGTON - Simulated wireless alert tones used in a “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” skit making fun of a presidential alert test have cost Walt Disney Co’s ABC $395,000 in civil fines with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

AMC Networks separately on Thursday agreed to pay a $104,000 fine for using an alert tone in a February 2019 episode of the “The Walking Dead.” The commission handed down smaller fines to Discovery’s Animal Planet and Meruelo Radio Holdings for other violations. Discovery agreed to pay a $68,000 civil penalty because during an episode of Animal Planet’s “Lone Star Law” contained an actual wireless emergency alert tone. The crew was filming Texas Game Wardens following Hurricane Harvey and caught the tone of a real wireless alert received by phones during filming.

The late-night comedy show used a simulated wireless emergency alert tone three times during a sketch regarding the nationwide presidential wireless emergency alert test that took place that day.

he should be fined for using tones that I never heard before and wouldn't know what they were if I did.

Silly JimmyKimmelLive maga

He’s so utterly lame! So lame he has to have a laughtrack.

What a bunch of baloney. Just another version of Trump suing in retaliation of free speech.

Not nearly enough. $10 million fine or cancellation!

Maybe we all should use the tones. They can't fine everyone. They can but who would actually pay it?

🤣😂

roybelly LeBatardShow gets fined only $5 for tone.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Should have been double that amount...!

Oh dear God, is this gonna make him cry again?

Now I’m laughing at Kimmel, NOT with him.

GOOD

Now THAT’s funny....JimmyKimmelLive, not so much

❤️

$395K is probably a drop in the bucket to them

Really

Emergency alert system or wireless emergency alert tones are barred by FCC rules “to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners, and false activation of the system by the operative data elements contained in the alert tones.' - So Basically Trump.

Yet Trump is still president.

LOL

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