filmlover Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Awhile back, Congress passed the CALM Act, aka the "Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act," which says if any TV station you are watching (not TCM, obviously) plays their commercials much louder than the regular program, you can complain to the FCC and the offending station gets in trouble and it gets fixed. It goes into effect tonight at midnight. :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMeingast Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 > {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}Awhile back, Congress passed the CALM Act, aka the "Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act," which says if any TV station you are watching (not TCM, obviously) plays their commercials much louder than the regular program, you can complain to the FCC and the offending station gets in trouble and it gets fixed. > > It goes into effect tonight at midnight. :x We've had a similar thing in Canada in effect since September 1: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/30/crtc-commercial-volume.html I haven't really noticed any difference, but then my hearing going down the tubes as I age anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 The law goes into effect, but stations can request up to a year's waver to get the equipment installed. Not sure if it's an automatic thing or is granted on a case-by-case basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 mark, it is my understanding that time has passed because the Act was passed in the last Congress, not the current one, back in 2010, and was signed by President Obama on December 15th of that year. The FCC adopted the rules a year ago and gave the networks a year to adopt them, so that time is up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Well how cool is that. Thank you for the info. Billy Mays would have been out of a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieB Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 So, what equipment would have to be installed? Is it a matter of commercials having been recorded at a higher volume so they'd need some kind of equalizer or do stations just play commercials at a higher volume than other programming? If it's the stations, we're living in an age of miracles and there's such a thing as a volume control, right? Even I know how to turn one of those things. Anyway, this is a good thing. It's common sense that irritating potential customers isn't the way for advertisers to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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