Young Sheldon's EAS Fine

In 2019, the FCC proposed a $272,000 fine against CBS after Young Sheldon aired an episode that used Emergency Alert System tones during a tornado warning scene. The commission bans actual or simulated EAS tones outside real alerts, and the episode violated that rule. Since EAS began in 1997, while the show is set in the early 1990s, the gag was also anachronistic.

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