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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Those loud TV commercials are about to get quieter...

The days of a blaring commercial interrupting your favorite TV show are about to be over...

The FCC is passing regulations that limit the volume levels of TV commercials and even dole out penalties to broadcasters that bombard us with loud ads between shows. We have the CALM act to thank for it all. That’s the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation act which was passed by Congress last year.

Under CALM, televised ads’ volume levels can’t exceed the loudest part of the show they’re in – and the loudest part of the ad can’t be sustained through the whole thing.

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