Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Loud TV Commercials A Thing Of The Past Starting December 13

If it's too loud, turn it down. Then call the FCC.

A federal act that helps regulate the volume of television commercials goes into effect Thursday, Dececember 13, after it was signed into law December 13, 2011.

It's called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act and there's a lot of technical jargon involved and the way the Federal Communications Commission measures and verifies how loud commercials are and can be.