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A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked?

Posted by Soulskill on from the where's-the-beef dept.

netbuzz writes "It's been a year since the FCC implemented the CALM Act, a law that prohibits broadcasters from blasting TV commercials at volumes louder than the programming. Whether the ban has worked or not depends on who you ask. The FCC notes that formal complaints about overly loud commercials are on the decline in recent months, but those complaints have totaled more than 20,000 over the past year."

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  1. Wrong Forum by rsborg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most /.'s I image don't put up with Ads.

    I sure as hell haven't noticed ad volume - of course, I gave up broadcast TV with ads since I got my first TiVo in 2003. DVRs all they way, but nowadays I don't even watch TV that's not Netflix - only the kiddos have time to watch TV in our house (how else would I have time to post on /. ?)

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  2. It's not the commercials. by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...it's the switch from national programming to regional or zip-code based advertising.

    Program.
    National commercial.
    National commercial.
    REGIONAL COMMERCIAL
    Program.

    My cable network screws this up regularly on Comedy Central. South Park goes into break, and then a BLARING LOUD commercial for a local product happens.

    I skip most commercials that aren't on during live sports -- but I watch a lot of live sports, and they're guilty too.

    I blame an idiot working in the Cox video operations center.

  3. Re:The issue has moved to the Internet by Russ1642 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop using the service then. Seriously. If something is that insanely bad then just go without.