Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is ready to take on that annoying blast of sound when TV commercials are just too loud and wants to compel the Federal Communications Commission to fix it and require the ads to be at the same decibel level as the programming.
Whitehouse has introduced legislation called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act of 2009, or CALM.
Democrats say the FCC has received consumer complaints about commercials being louder than television shows since the 1960s. In the 25 quarterly reports on consumer complaints released by the FCC since 2002, 21 have listed as a top complaint the loudness of television commercials.
From: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/10/2148946.aspx
12.14.2009
The CALM Act
Posted by MC at 7:23 AM
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"Democrats say the FCC has received consumer complaints about commercials being louder than television shows since the 1960s"
so the FCC is right on schedule with looking at the problem.:)
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