HUEBS! HUEBS! HUEBS! HUEBS!

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Living in DC I’m already quite desensitized to sirens going off every few minutes

I know! It's a little sad that so many complaints boil down to "he's too nice." Like yeah, that's his vibe. It's a good thing for people to be nice!!

There was a local radio station near me that used the sound of screeching tires to announce their traffic (on the 8's) broadcast. Every time I thought there was some car careening into me.

Of course, I stopped listening to that station.

Yeah, but to be fair I doubt any company, mega or not, would willingly use it knowing it’ll cost half a million dollars, especially when there’s alternatives to using it.

They PAY the nfl 100 million a week, roughly, to have the broadcast rights. So, my number is probably inaccurate. Is it wrong enough to invalidate the point, though?

There's nepotism in every aspect of society, why do people act like this is just a Hollywood thing? Hell, you can get a job at even McDonald's if you know the manager.

In 2013, some numbskull thought it would be cool to use the EAS tones in the movie trailer for “Olympus Has Fallen”, and it got broadcast on multiple networks before it was pulled.

https://www.vox.com/2014/3/3/11624116/cable-channels-hit-with-nearly-2-million-fine-for-airing-movie-trailer

> Yes, i made a comment with inaccurate financial numbers on a reddit post. If you expected perfect accuracy and research in numbers, i really don't know what to do for you.

What makes you think I'm expecting anything from you? If anything, my comment serves to illustrate I know better than to expect accurate numbers from Reddit

> A 500k fine for this kind of offense is similar to fining the average person $1. It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, and it will deter exactly 0 people.

So, you wrote all that because you think I'm disagreeing it's not enough when I also said this?

> $500,000 isn't enough...

I'm not really following what's motivating you lol

Yes, i made a comment with inaccurate financial numbers on a reddit post. If you expected perfect accuracy and research in numbers, i really don't know what to do for you.
I'm not a journalist or expecting people to source my off-the-cuff reddit comment. However, let's actually do some math since you seem interested.
The latest contract fox signed with the NFL has them PAYING the NFL 2 billion dollars a year for the rights to broadcast. Let's assume 20 weeks of games with playoffs, etc. That means that FOX paid 100 million per week to the nfl. They wouldn't do that if it wasn't profitable. A 500k fine into that 100 million is literally 1/2 of a percent.
I realize i said profit and not revenue. However, the size of the revenues involved here absolutely validate my point, which was this:
A 500k fine for this kind of offense is similar to fining the average person $1. It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, and it will deter exactly 0 people.

I’m a big fan of these already! I won’t look at a can of Tomotoes the same way after their divorce on those.

Idk how it works in television but having worked in radio, I can tell you that these tones trip the EAS software/hardware to go into alert mode. Using this sound recklessly - like in a commercial - could trip the actual EAS to activate, though very likely without any messaging. You’d effectively be watching/hearing a blank alert. Moreover, “end tones” have to be played to allow the alert to conclude; without those tones, the alert stays active until someone manually ends it.

In short, don’t fucking play around with the EAS tones.

Use of emergency service sound effects isn't prohibited. Currently.

No problem, it might have been a good replacement for my recast. They just have the big 4 and PBS on a single frequency here using ATSC 3. I would benefit from ATSC 3 now because the ATSC 3 is on rf 22, and one of my networks is on rf 7 (ATSC), which has too much interference on it. I appreciate the response.

Haha - no they didn’t!

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Its cause the character writing is bad, they exist to just move the plot along

Which is why any good adaption would require extensive new writing

Shameless doesn't get enough credit. It explores just about the whole spectrum of mental illness in a pretty realistic way and deals with class consciousness well too

Back when it was first created in the 1970s or '80s, 500,000 was a lot more money. I imagine the fine has not gone up in 50 years and therefore is now just the cost of doing business.

Even season 4 had the issues that would later sink the show, mainly Quinn and Bautista's subplots.

Cool. I'll give it a go

Jane Turner is amazing ...le sigh. A real comedic genius.

Eg. Radio commercials that use things like police sirens to get people to pay attention.